Vote WV Town for ESPN's TitleTown-Vote Early, Vote Often (Parkersburg: chapel, home)

[Two-Rivers]

I hope this isn't in violation of the rules:

Vote early, vote as often as you like, but I hope you'll vote for WV.

Story From It’s Parkersburg’s day on ESPN - News, Sports, Jobs, Community Information - Parkersburg News and Sentinel

PARKERSBURG -Today's the day.
The day ESPN introduces Parkersburg to the rest of America.
The day our city and its sports teams will be placed in the national spotlight by the all-sports network.
During its 6 p.m. edition of SportsCenter, ESPN will run two segments on Parkersburg, one of 20 communities in the United States selected for its TitleTown USA competition.
Last week, an ESPN production crew spent two days in Parkersburg gathering material for its presentation. It visited numerous sites around the community, including the three high schools - Parkersburg High School, Parkersburg South and Parkersburg Catholic - that have won 192 West Virginia state sports championships.
It also shot film of the Erickson All-Sports Facility and from the overlook at Fort Boreman Park.
It will combine those scenes with highlights from the 192 state titles to put together one of the two segments featuring Parkersburg.
The other segment will come from last Friday's TitleTown rally conducted at Stadium Field. Approximately 4,500 coaches, athletes, cheerleaders, band and dance team members and local sports fans turned out to celebrate Parkersburg's selection as a TitleTown finalist.
ESPN was there for the three-hour duration of the event, capturing all the highlights, including skydiver Ted Williams' pinpoint landing near the 50-yard line while displaying a banner carrying the logos of the three high schools.
The ESPN production crew kept cajoling the crowd to get involved for its cameras and the locals - who braved 90-degree heat to be part of the show - obliged every time.
Wendi Nix, an ESPN personality who served as the host of the Parkersburg segment, surrounded the TitleTown stage with athletes and cheerleaders from the three high schools, while a representative of each school carried their flag.
Nix also interviewed Parkersburg sports figure Mike Hayden, an all-state running back at PHS who served as that school's athletics director as well as a successful head football coach at Parkersburg South. Hayden made a strong case as to why Parkersburg should be TitleTown USA.
Those who miss the 6 p.m. SportsCenter will have plenty of other opportunities to see the segments on Parkersburg, as they also will be broadcast during the 11 p.m. and 1 a.m. airings of SportsCenter as well as during hourly replays that will run throughout the morning on Wednesday.
Also, ESPN Classic, Channel 27 for Parkersburg cable subscribers of Suddenlink Communications, will air a replay of the 2006 football game between Parkersburg High and Parkersburg South - a 42-3 Big Reds victory - at 2 p.m. today.
TitleTown voting begins Wednesday at http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/titletown/index. (broken link)
There are no restrictions to the number of times any individual can vote. The winner will be announced by ESPN on Sunday.
Other cities vying to be TitleTown USA include Green Bay, Wisc.; Louisville, Ky.; Gainesville, Fla.; Detroit; Williamsport, Pa.; Boston; Los Angeles; Columbus, Ohio; Chapel Hill, N.C.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; San Francisco; Pittsburgh; Valdosta, Ga.; Knoxville, Tenn.; Chicago; Lawrence. Kan.; Palo Alto, Calif.; Massillon, Ohio; and New York City.

[Threerun]

Voting starts today and Parkersburg is featured today on the on-line video.

ESPN - TitleTown USA - SportsCenter

[Two-Rivers]

Thanks Threerun, for some reason they haven't opened the voting yet, ESPN just says it will be "some time today".

I'll post back if I catch it opening.

I'm a Patriot myself, as are my sons and grandchildren. Parkersburg South was built in the 1960s, I believe, and always played it's 'home' games at the Parkersburg High stadium. Sort of strange when we played PHS as a home game.

In the 1990s, the people of South Parkersburg decided it was time to build a stadium the Patriots could call home. I don't have the exact numbers, but Erickson Field was built almost solely on donations from residents and business, local and state gov't. did not get involved until it was impossible to ignore the effort.

I feel the Erickson project shows one very good reason why we should be considered in the running for TitleTown.

[snorpus]

There's some tough competition... Green Bay, Pittsburgh, NYC.

[Two-Rivers]

Vote early, Vote often.

Did ya catch my edit above Snorpus?

[snorpus]

Yup, I see it.

I'll vote for Parkersburg, but Steeler Nation is wide and vast.

[Retired Navy]

Originally Posted by Two-Rivers

Vote early, Vote often.

Did ya catch my edit above Snorpus?

WOW!!! Just like a real election!! Wonder if any dead people will vote in this one too!!??

[Two-Rivers]

Voting is open. But they have us listed as Parkersburg, Va.

[vec101]

Originally Posted by Two-Rivers

Voting is open. But they have us listed as Parkersburg, Va.

Just voted. They have corrected their mistake.

Alas, must have been another person who did not know West Virginia is a state. Thank heavens someone there did or at least someone told them.

[Threerun]

Done.