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October 19, 2007
Not quite The Godfather
Nothing says high school quite like the big game against your archrival. At my school, our most disliked opponent were the Granville Blue Aces, though I'm not entirely sure why. But there's some chicanery going on lately. First, somebody apparently left nasty notes on cars at another rival school, and tried to frame my alma mater in the process:
A letter left on the windshields of Liberty Union soccer players and their fans on Tuesday allegedly from Fisher Catholic students. The letter, entitled "Ode to the Lions," denigrated Liberty Union's football team, its facilities and even its socioeconomic profile.
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[FC Principal] Silcott said that short of a confession, eyewitness or video taped evidence there is no way to determine whether the letter originated with anyone associated with Fisher Catholic. He did, however, point out parts of the letter that cast doubt as to its purported Irish origin.
The five-paragraph letter is signed "The Fighting Irish of Lancaster Fisher Catholic." The city in which the school is located is hardly ever used when discussing divisional games, let alone two schools separated by fewer than nine miles. The city designation typically is reserved for out-of-town opponents.
The letter also mentions a Fisher Catholic graduate and former player who transferred from Liberty Union. He was an all-Ohio honorable mention last season. His name is spelled incorrectly in the letter.
However, that's small peanuts compared to the outrageous prank pulled by some students in Texas:
A girl's high school volleyball team was shocked to find a bloody deer carcass on their bus after a game against a rival.
Members of the Comfort High School Whitetail Deer volleyball team came across the remains of a dead deer after playing a game against Blanco High School.
A sister of a Comfort High School student said she believes students from Blanco High School placed the carcass on the bus as a prank.
"That is very inappropriate, I just couldn't believe it," Laura Lozano said. "(My sister) was just so surprised that they would do something like that."
Lozano said the rivalry between the two schools is deeply seated.
Man... They sure take their sports seriously in Texas.
entry no. 986
Posted by oz115 at October 19, 2007 03:02 PM