As Boston’s Football Tradition Fades, Notorious VOG Returns to Bring the City Back Together
Written by b87fm on 11/25/2025
As the holiday dust settles and our Thanksgiving rivalries fade into the rearview, it’s impossible to ignore what’s happening across Boston’s own football landscape — or more accurately, what’s disappearing from it.
This year, there were no touchdowns at White Stadium. Excel High (formerly South Boston) didn’t even field a team. Madison Park, once home to the first touchdown in school history, hasn’t had a program in more than five years. Charlestown and Brighton — both state champions less than two decades ago — must now combine just to suit up enough players. Hyde Park has no team. Burke is gone. Excel/Southie is gone.
For too many Boston public high schools, football has quietly slipped into extinction.
Similarly to the overall quality of life for Bostonians, specifically minority communities, as participation drops and resources thin out, the programs that once bonded entire neighborhoods are becoming memories. In a city with a deep, proud football tradition, it’s a loss felt far beyond the field. And no one seems to care!
That’s why B87FM is turning the spotlight right back where it belongs — on Boston, on our young people, and on the real political and social issues shaping our neighborhoods.
Notorious VOG returns LIVE, Monday, January 5th, 2026, hitting the streets with Boston’s biggest interviews and hard-hitting conversations about the challenges our communities face — that’s not being talked about, including the failure of Boston Public Schools to keep high school sports alive.
And as the MIAA football season barrels toward a state bowl game at Gillette Stadium, we’ll be right there with you — celebrating the teams still fighting, remembering the programs we’ve lost, and pushing for the change Boston kids deserve.
The road to the Super Bowl may run through New England with our 10-2 Patriots — and so should urban conversations. Stay locked in to B87FM. We’re just getting started.
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