[MtnHSFootballFan]

It very well could have been Hoot, I really don't remember that part.

But, for what it's worth, Johnson Central was really not that much different than most county schools in eastern Kentucky at that time. For many years it was usually only the city schools that served as their respective county seats that fielded football teams....Consolidation is the thing that can be attributed to football being what it is now in the mountains. Perhaps there were some, but I cant think of one single county school system that ever had a football team until the early to late 70's in eastern Kentucky.

This is a thing that can be attributed, but if you meant adding to the number of football teams that may not be true. It has added some where the original schools were non football schools but it has also contributed to the loss of football teams where the original schools were football playing schools. A fairly recent example is Harlan County. Three football playing schools (in alphabetical order), Cawood, Cumberland and Evarts combined into one school so this made a net loss of two high school football teams in Harlan County. Pike County lost several with the consolidations that made Pike County Central and East Ridge. I don't know how many total have been gained or lost altogether.