Which Wyoming high school football stadium was called “beyond loud”? Which stadium had someone recommending closed-toed shoes? And which stadium was called, well… “It is a high school football place. No big deal.”
The answers are all waiting on Google Maps.
Believe it or not, a big chunk of people have left reviews about Wyoming high school football stadiums on Google. Ratings — out of five stars — and text comments drive the interaction. And, how to put this nicely? Some of the comments are exactly what you’d expect from an open-source reviews project.
Go here to take a quiz on those comments, everything from the really nice to the nostalgic to the neutral to the bitter. Don’t worry, no one’s keeping score. Correctly matched pairs disappear when you match them.
As for the ratings? As of Aug. 29, the seven top-rated fields, all with a maxed-out 5.0 rating, are Cody, Evanston, Guernsey, Lyman, Riverside, Rock Springs and Wheatland.
Other rated fields were Green River and Lusk (4.8), Cheyenne East, Cheyenne South and Thermopolis (4.7), Douglas and Rawlins (4.6), Cheyenne Central, Lander and Natrona (4.5), Midwest and Saratoga (4.3), Laramie (4.1), Burns, Hulett and Pine Bluffs (4.0) and Jackson (3.5).
Meanwhile, Campbell County, Kaycee, Kelly Walsh, Lingle, Lovell, Pinedale, Riverton, Sheridan, Thunder Basin, Tongue River, Torrington and Worland have their fields acknowledged on Google Maps, but so far no one has left a review.
And apologies to Big Horn, Big Piney, Buffalo, Burlington, Casper Christian, Cokeville, Dubois, Encampment, Farson, Glenrock, Greybull, Hanna, Kemmerer, Meeteetse, Moorcroft, Mountain View, Newcastle, Powell, Rocky Mountain, St. Stephens, Shoshoni, Snake River, Southeast, Star Valley, Sundance, Ten Sleep, Upton, Wind River, Wright and Wyoming Indian. Your fields aren’t marked on Google Maps, so no one can leave a review. At least not yet. Maybe that’s a blessing in disguise.
By the way, don’t like your stadium’s rating? Leave your own review on Google. Maybe someday, someone like me will add it to a silly online quiz.
–patrick
I should mark the locations of all the unmarked stadiums on Google!