My Friday Night Frustration
Okay, so last Friday, I really wanted to watch the Mulvane High football game. Simple enough, right? Ha, boy was I wrong. Started like I usually do, grabbing my phone from the coffee table. Figured I’d hop onto that one big sports network everyone uses. Typed in “Mulvane High football game live” real quick.
First page that popped up? Total bust. Just some old scores from like two seasons ago. Felt like digging through an attic box you think has the good stuff, but it’s just dusty photo albums. Sighed, rubbed my eyes. Tried again, this time being super specific: “Mulvane High vs [Opponent] live stream tonight”. Still nothing useful. Links took me to places wanting money upfront or just showed static game times.
Getting seriously annoyed now. My pizza was getting cold, and I had zero football to watch. I even tried downloading a couple of generic high school sports apps people mentioned in forums. Big mistake. Filled my phone with junk faster than you can say “touchdown”. Pure bloatware wanting all my phone permissions just to maybe show a scoreboard. Deleted them immediately.
Then I remembered something folks sometimes mentioned for local stuff: local radio broadcasts. “Maybe I can at least get the audio?” Thought it was worth a shot. Headed over to the good ol’ app store on my tablet. Searched for the main local radio station everyone around here knows. Found their app, installed it.
Tune in… and… ads. Endless ads. Like, a solid five minutes of car dealerships and furniture stores screaming at me. Couldn’t find the game anywhere on the schedule they showed. Just some oldies station playing rock and more ads. Threw my hands up. Complete dead end.
Started feeling kinda dumb, honestly. Here I am, techy enough to write this blog, stumbling over a high school football game. Went back to the drawing board. Decided brute force search on that huge social platform everybody posts everything on. Typed in “Mulvane football live” and scrolled like my life depended on it.
Finally Caught a Break
Scrolled past tons of unrelated junk… old team photos, parent complaints about the booster club bake sale, memes… the usual social media stew. Was just about to give up and settle for checking scores later when I saw it. A post shared by the Mulvane Booster Club Account itself, timestamped just 20 minutes ago.
- It mentioned the official team account name.
- Straight up said to check their main page feed for live score updates.
- No fancy links, just plain text: “Follow us for live quarter updates!”
Lightbulb moment. Rushed over to that social platform, typed in the exact team account name from the booster club post. Found the team’s official page feed. And there it was! Almost the end of the first quarter, but they were actively posting updates. Simple text posts:
- “Mulvane 7, Opponent 0 – End 1Q”
- “Big interception! Ball on Opponent 30 yard line!”
Relief washed over me. Finally, connection! Didn’t get that flashy live stream I originally craved, but man, these real-time updates were pure gold. Settled back with my now lukewarm pizza, phone refreshed the feed constantly. Saw the whole game unfold post by post, score by score. Ended up being a nail-biter they won in the last minute. Felt much better than fumbling with apps and radio ads!
Lesson learned the hard way: Sometimes the simplest, most direct source on a platform you already use beats hunting for fancy streams or apps. Just gotta know where the locals talk. Gotta follow the right feed.