Respect? Between Schools...

[crimsonshrouds]

It baffles me at how stupid schools can act at, before, and after the football games.

It doesn't surprise me how they acted though

The city school and county school in my area had their yearly rivalry football match and it went overboard.

The city beat the county school but even before the game they were being total jerks.

Bad mouthing the county school, painting offensive things and scratching up a girl's car that was decorated in the county school colors.

They went to the county school and shot paintballs and wrote profanities on the windows and glass doors.

Fights broke out in wal-mart. (I didn't hear much about the county so i can't say much about them.)

I understand school spirit but this is ridiculous.

I was a band geek and everywhere we went for band competitions everybody was respectful.
There was no bad mouthing, no booing, nobody would holler or even speak when a band was performing.

Are Respect and football impossible too have together like mixing oil and water.

 

[Alpha Centauri]

And this is why I dont play football any more

 

[Bored Tomatoe]

Most of my friends go to my school's rival schools... Then again my school spirit is in the negative category.

 

[Internet Kraken]

So some people acted like a bunch of morons........what's your point?

People being stupid is not something new.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

So some people acted like a bunch of morons........what's your point?

People being stupid is not something new.

I asked if respect and football could go together

 

[Last of the Chinchillas]

Speaking as someone who played a bit of high school footbal; yes it's impossible. People take it way too seriously. I've seen everything from a team being booed by an entire audience at an away game, to an opposing team shouting out racial slurs and then essentially having the refs let them get away with it, to someone being jumped before a game by some rival players so that he wouldn't be able to play.

The players, the coaches, the parents, hell, the entire school, put so much time and effort into this whole thing, you'd think that they could act like adults about it, but no, it's apparently more appropiate to be hyper-competitive idiots.

I really do blame the seriousness people insist on putting on the game. When you've got grown men crying because the high school football team they're coaching just lost a game, and you have a young man begging to go back onto the field despite the fact that he has a compound wrist fracture, it's quite clear that people have forgotten that this is just a game, and supposed to be fun.

This is not the Battle of Thermopylae, people!

 

[Internet Kraken]

So some people acted like a bunch of morons........what's your point?

People being stupid is not something new.

I asked if respect and football could go together

You have a bunch of drunk people in a stadium sitting in close proximity to people they hate.

No.

Seriously though, an outbreak of violence doesn't occur at every single football game.

 

[crimsonshrouds]

So some people acted like a bunch of morons........what's your point?

People being stupid is not something new.

I asked if respect and football could go together

You have a bunch of drunk people in a stadium sitting in close proximity to people they hate.

No.

Seriously though, an outbreak of violence doesn't occur at every single football game.

Violence erupts at this rivalry game every year but this time it was worse

 

[paragon1]

It's a sad, sad thing. I've often wondered what the world would be like if some of the drive, time, and wealth that is put into sports were used for other things. Guess folks have to have their entertainment though, huh?

 

[Pimppeter2]

People use the "school spirit" as an excuse to do stupid things, act like jackasses, and get attention

Just like religion, race, "low self esteme", fake depression ect

 

[Biosophilogical]

Are Respect and football impossible too have together like mixing oil and water.

Well actually that analgy is perfect cause people try and make them mix by adding eggs (egg whites (as i understand it) are an emulsifier for oils and water ... not completely 100% sure about that though).

OT: No.

 

[MelziGurl]

School rivalry is part of growing up. Our school had no respect for schools that had a reputation for drugs and the like. Granted, our school wasn't in any sense of the word superior, but our teachers actually cared about some of the content surrounding our education. The biggest of all was no tolerance for drugs, a girl was immediately expelled for possession of marijuana and she was only thirteen. Football made it no better, when we played against some of these schools the rivalry was even greater. I can also remember a school excursion, sitting on the bus and having girls from a school I had no knowledge of start to slander us. Mind you, it must have made them feel tough being on the outside of the bus with an opportunity to run given some of the girls that were in my class.

Respect isn't just a sporting thing, I live in Australia too so the fact that we also wear uniforms made it so much easier boost the rivalry. My brother and some mates from school were sitting outside a Maccas restaurant, some kids from a neighbouring school decided to start a massive fight in the carpark involving girls being beaten, run over and friends being picked out at random. It developed into an all out brawl that eventually involved cousins, brothers, friends, uncles etc being called in for help (and martial arts weapons such as nunchucks). It's almost normal for schools to rival each other in such ways and I've never been able to figure out why. Hormones are the only thing I can come up with for the behaviour of some school students, females are not excused...actually they are worse.

 

[Halfbreed13]

And this is why I have no school spirit.

 

[RooftopAssassin]

At my school we are the La Porte Bulldogs and our rivals are Deer Park (Deer of course) and we used to shave LPHS (La Porte High School) into their fields grass and we used to hang up dead deer on their goal posts before the big rival game.

It's very ridiculous.

 

[Rassan]

I don't see why it's such a big deal. Apparently Football is where everyone releases their aggression.

 

[johnzaku]

I was a bando, a wrestler, and various other things. I went to so many school events, but goddammit... football and basketball was too much. All the others were respectful and sportsmanly, but at those two there was invariably at least one fight or vandalism.

I hated it, so I stopped going. Support your school wrestling team, and just let the footballers be their own thing.

Honestly, why does football get all the funds? Our school sent ALL the money to them, and then they lost and lost and lost and got in fights etc. bandos and wrestlers were out winning championships and we were using ratty old mats and crummy shared instruments.

I hate our school system.

 

[Brett Alex]

No, football and respect do not go together. No matter how many times our principal went over the rules, we still had a fight at our home opener. People need to realize it's just a game.

Football: Played by hyper-competitive idiots, viewed by hyper-competitive idiots.

Internet Forums: Composed of sweeping generalizations.

OT:
Yes, yes it can. I've been part of the crowd at the final for a statewide football match, cheering for my school. Rivalry, yes, but no violence what so ever. Friendly rivalry, in fact.

I was a band geek and everywhere we went for band competitions everybody was respectful.
There was no bad mouthing, no booing, nobody would holler or even speak when a band was performing.

On that note, some of my friends went with the school band to a competition in Hawaii and were frequently provoked by a Californian school group, who verbally abused them and trashed the gifts our school presented them with.

People taking competition too far can happen in anything, its not restricted to sport in the slightest.

It's a sad, sad thing. I've often wondered what the world would be like if some of the drive, time, and wealth that is put into sports were used for other things. Guess folks have to have their entertainment though, huh?

Y'know, the exact same thing could be said about discussions on the internet, right?

 

[Lord Mountbatten Reborn]

Football has never once managed to advertise its advantages to me. I believe this is one of the reasons why.

And yeah, that's just how it works. If you aren't from my school I don't like you. If you're not from my city I don't like you. Hey, you're southern, we're northern, we don't like you. Not from our country? We don't like you. Not from our continent? We don't like you.

Of course, Alien invasion would solve our differences.

One example was when some kids from the school we are typically "rivals" with walked into our grounds. Now most of the time our school is in a constant state of civil war against its various cliques. However, this time many banded together (probably at least 800, perhaps even 1000) and chased this small group off.

It was truly a sight to behold.