Two-a-days football show no longer streams
Who remembers “Two-A-Days?” No, we don’t mean your personal glory days practicing twice a day for your high school football team, but the MTV reality series about the Hoover High School football program. Ring a bell? Ding!
Former Hoover head coach Rush Propst made news again this week, surviving a vote for his ousting as Pell City High School head coach.
The news prompted us to reach into the memory vault for the show that put Alabama in the national spotlight for (what else?) our obsession with football and what it takes to win at the highest level.
Below is what you need to know about the MTV show, and how you can watch it now.
WHAT IS ‘TWO-A-DAYS’?
“Two-A-Days” was a sports reality series chronicling the on and off-thefield lives of members of the powerhouse Hoover High School Buccaneers football team in the Birmingham, Alabama suburb during the 2005 and 2006 seasons.
Along with the players, the show also featured Hoover coaches, cheerleaders, students, parents and others throughout the season.
WHEN DID IT AIR ON MTV?
The show aired for two seasons, including a total of 16 episodes, starting in August 2006. The show debuted with an hour-long pilot, followed by 30-minute episodes in subsequent weeks.
WHO WAS ON THE SHOW?
Most notably, the show featured Propst, the successful and controversial leader of the program who left the school after 2007.
The show also featured Ross Wilson, the junior starting quarterback whose older brother and Hoover alumnus John Parker Wilson was a quarterback for the Alabama Crimson Tide during the filming of the show.
Others included linebacker Alex Binder, defensive end Dwarn “Repete” Smith, safety Max Lerner, defensive lineman John C. “Goose” Dunham and cheerleader Kristin Boyle.
Among the coaches featured on the show was former Alabama defensive coordinator and Tennessee head coach Jeremy Pruitt, a Rainsville native who at the time served as defensive coordinator for the Buccaneers.
WHO IS RUSH PROPST?
Born in Ohatchee, Alabama, Propst rose to fame leading Hoover to national prominence in high school football.
He is currently head football coach at Pell City High School, where he was officially hired on March 31, 2023.
Propst had returned to coaching in Alabama the previous January when he was hired as the associate head coach at Class 1A Coosa Christian in Gadsden, according to AL.com’s Ben Thomas.
Prior to being hired at Coosa, Propst last coached in Alabama in 2007 when he led Hoover to a 6-6 record.
He won five Class 6A titles with the Bucs, including four in a row from 2002-2005. He went 110-16 in nine years as head coach at Hoover. He won a pair of state titles in 11 years as head coach at Colquitt County, Ga., racking up 119 more victories. He’s also been head coach at Ashville (1989-1992), Eufaula (1993-1996), Alba/Alma Bryant (1997-1998) and Valdosta, Ga. (2020).
After controversial stops at Valdosta and Colquitt County, Propst remains a polarizing figure. In April, at a special called meeting, an agenda item before the Pell City School Board of Education to fire Propst failed when no one on the board made a motion to vote.
IS IT STREAMING?
No. While “Two-A-Days” is listed on Amazon Prime Video, the status currently reads, “This video is currently unavailable to watch in your location.”
This status appears for each of the two seasons, though you can find descriptions for all 16 episodes of the show.
As an alternative, you can currently stream “Titletown High” on Netflix, which follows Propst and his Valdosta football program.
Similar to the MTV series, “Titletown High” chronicles a “Georgia town where football rules and winning is paramount” and promises to show a team try to “tackle romance and rivalries and real life while vying for a title.”
HOW CAN I WATCH IT?
Without an option to stream the show on any platforms, you may have to resort to physical media. Do you still own a DVD player?
If you don’t already own either season on disc, you can find used copies of the box sets on Amazon and eBay. These are currently your only options to watch the show, aside from various clips you can stream on YouTube. (Another pro tip: Check your local library.)