Believe it or not, San Francisco is still a football town.

Yeah, I know. The Faithful are still lamenting the loss of the 49ers to the San Jose metro area. The unloved Candlestick Park has been smashed to pieces and hauled to landfills and scrap yards. Kezar Field, the 49ers’ original home for 25 years, still stands—but it’s harder than ever to imagine that there existed a time when fans could walk to a game and hear Tony Bennett sing the national anthem before kickoff.

Yet football is still a vital force right here and now at City College of San Francisco.

And you should go to a game.

Attending a City College football game defies all expectations. First, there’s the location. You may have lived in San Francisco for years, but never known that Rams Stadium is just a five-minute BART ride from the Mission.

Tickets are a delightful $10 for adults (or approximately what you’d pay for water at Levi’s Stadium), and kids, students, and seniors pay even less. When you hand over your cash and walk past the snack bar, this is what you see:

Oh wow, Rams Stadium. I’ve been to football fields from Lambeau to the Orange Bowl, and I’ve never seen a field with this breathtaking a view. It’s such a beautiful vista that you can almost forget about the rusting scoreboard with burned-out lights and Spice Girls-era Pepsi logo. (The campus has seen better days.)

So, is the football any good? Well, depends on how you look at it.

Yes, City College’s football program is appropriately dominant for the state’s largest community college. Coach George Rush retired in January after 38 seasons with an astonishing record of accomplishment: 326 wins, 22 conference titles, 7 state championships, and even 9 (mythical) national championships. They continued this dominance into 2015, running up a 5-1 record, with the one loss coming on a time-expiring field goal.

And yes, every year, the Rams send players off to major university programs. (Don’t forget, CCSF is a two-year school.) Many Rams have even seen action in the NFL, including long-time Green Bay Packer Desmond Bishop; Hall-of-Famer Ollie Matson, who was once traded for nine other players; and O.J. Simpson, who later became famous for playing Detective Nordberg in The Naked Gun, and hasn’t been heard from since…

But this is not the PAC-12. Almost no one on the field is more than two years out of high school, and few were offered scholarships by FBS-level schools. Game play can be unrefined and occasionally sloppy.

The fans more than make up for this. The crowds are packed with players’ families and CCSF alumni, and road fans travel en masse. When big plays happen, the place goes nuts.

San Francisco, it’s time to stop lamenting the loss of Jed York’s mercenary pro franchise that maybe never loved us back. Instead, you can cheer for a bunch of awesome kids who grew up around here, and are now playing their hearts out for our great city.

City College plays two more home games this year: Oct. 31st vs. Diablo Valley and Nov. 7 vs. De Anza. Games kick off at 1pm. Parking is available, and the stadium is just a few minutes’ walk from Balboa Park BART.