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To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (30074)	8/26/2011 2:21:48 AM
From: Jeffrey S. Mitchell	Respond to of 91116

There's always one town in everyone's environs that folks love to take issue with. Where I am it's New Canaan. These were the guys who used to tape our town's youth football team's practice in order to learn our handful of plays. These were the guys who kept each of their two youth teams intact year after year claiming it was because one team was Morman and could only play on Saturdays, which we found out later was a blatant lie (they had five kids in their entire program who were Morman). I could go on and on but perhaps it more illustrative to share the following. When you read it, consider that area tech schools for a short while dropped all their sports programs to save money; Danbury cut their freshman football program. Some area schools don't even have a football field! ----- New Canaan’s new scoreboard being installed August 17, 2011 at 12:36 pm by Dave Ruden The new scoreboard at New Canaan's Dunning Field. While interviewing New Canaan athletic director Jay Egan this afternoon for a story I am working on, he was out by the football field, watching the school’s new $80,000 state-of-the-art scoreboard being installed. Egan said it should be up by the end of the day and they hope to have the power running by Friday. “It’s big,” Egan said. “It’s unbelievable.” Egan said he was told New Canaan is the only school in New England to have this type of scoreboard, which will be able to broadcast live events and show replays. “I don’t know yet what it all entails,” he said. “There’s going to be a learning curve. We have to investigate the program it runs on. It runs through a computer. If we had graduation, we could use an HD camera and project it through the scoreboard.” Despite the cost, Egan predicted these type of scoreboards will soon become more commonplace. “We needed a new scoreboard,” Egan said. “It’s the wave of things to come. It might not be next year, but five years from now, as people need new scoreboards and the price comes down. With the functionality of it, it will be a decision for people to consider.” blog.ctnews.com