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I have an office in Lake Charles.  Some of my friends there in Louisiana have enjoyed asking about the VHS football season since they know that I follow the team.

On Friday night, they were passed by our buses on the way to the game in BMT (they happened to be passing through to Houston).  And they were shocked to see the police escort. 

This brings me to the question.  How many teams in Southeast Texas travel with some sort of Police Escort on Friday nights?  I have always seen the police escort on Friday nights (since I was a kid) and just assumed that every team traveled this way.  I would guess that most Rural Schools in Texas travel with escorts on Friday night.

I have no deep issue here to address.  I am just curious as to how widespread the practice is in Southeast Texas.
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[quote name="GoDogs27" post="1093280" timestamp="1319496178"]
I think one travels with the Nederland band/westernaires/cheerleaders, but I think it's just the rent-a-cop from the high school. He's an actual Nederland cop though with a real car. I don't think the football team has an escort. We didn't when imposter a few years ago.
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Ned does unless something has changed in the last couple of years.  I have seen them at away games. I know they were there at the WOS game.
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I don't remember the teams, but when I was young there was several instances of people messing with the buses so most of the local teams started having escorts. Some folks think it is fun harassing the buses but we know from the Beaumont incident several years ago bad things can happen real quick. 
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I remember several years ago being at a playoff game in Houston  when they had the black cooking trailer and loud game music going and all of the Nederland kids pulling up in Sun travel buses 7 or 8 ,and the other team standing there with mouths open as we gathered around the bus when the players got off. I call than intimadation of the first kind,it puts a mind set in the other team. of course this was escourted by police front and rear
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[quote name="dayton" post="1093732" timestamp="1319552694"]
[quote author=LilBobcatMom link=topic=90383.msg1093693#msg1093693 date=1319550368]
I graduated in [b]1986 (shut up) [/b] from Friendswood.  We had police escorts when we played Santa Fe.  I'm not sure about the other out-of-town games.
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they had police in '86?????
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Yes, Matt Dillon and his posse.  Someone had to guard those horse-drawn buses.
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