California High Schools Not Impressed by ESPN

Coaches of the two California high school football teams featured Friday night on ESPN2 are riled up about the way the network treated them and their schools. In a "Hometown Report," The Sacramento Bee reveals that the "overall sense of the ESPN superiority" flustered officials at Folsom High School and Del Paso Height's Grant High School. Network crews took control of practically every detail of the sold-out event, school officials say, which aired live from Folsom's Prairie City Stadium.

"I've covered eight Super Bowls and never had as many difficulties as I have with this game," Fox 40 sports director Jim Crandell told reporter Joe Davidson. Before the game, ESPN insisted that local television outlets have no access to the field - meaning no highlights on their newscasts - but that edict was adjusted to limited access from the end zones. The network also reportedly asked the student bodies of both schools to host on-campus rallies and pulled players out of class to conduct interviews.

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