My school's basketball team is made up of some hard working, determined guys who match their desire w/ skill and racked up a season record of 26-4 . It ended tonight, though on a bitter note. The final score at the buzzer: 57- 72, Steel-High. Needless to say, the team was crushed, but do u think we were that bad? I think we had a lot of heart.

You see, I go to a small, all guys Catholic Highschool, w/ 500 kids (go ahead flame away everyone else does too, well, until we do something about it.) Our team is all white kids w/ the exception of Lenwood whose balck and Martinez who's Latino and the youngest player on he team, but a killer Snipe. There are only two seniors, one is 6'5", he's our tallest player and the other is hardly over 5 foot. So here we are in AA because of the small size of our funds and student body yet we've owned AAA teams from all over the state. We fight above our weight, no doubt and in combination w/ the skill and desire of the players, the experience and talent of the coach and the heartfilled support of the fans we became an unrestrained smashing machine from hell. Leaving pain and destruction in our wake (or as much as a basketball team can). We shocked everyone over and over again. We made it to Pennsylvania's eastern state finals. The quarterfinals of the overall state. What you need to rememebr is the schools we were playing against have unlimited funds and talent pools. Never-the-less we still had the chance to win our state championship, so why didn't we?

The team's best ranked player, Lenwood Greenwood, is a machine. He's been know to go 17 for 17 in 3 pointers and basically dominated in the B.A.L.'s, which is a local "federaton" of highschool teams. That all stopped tough when we got out of that section. You see, he probably couln't deal w/ the pressure. I don't want to jusge or criticize teh kid, he's my friend and I've never been i nthat position. But he left all the work to two other kids and it's hard to compensate for that loss when you already have so much responsibility on the court. We had a pep rally today in school. It was gay, but we were charged. Even after a 2 hur bus ride we were still pumped and ready to cheer on our team. But we saw something we'd never seen before.

This school gym was an arena. Huge, but that wasn't new, last game was in an auditorium of equal size, just the audience was never as big. It was absolutely sick, when playing our rival and in our last game in that huge auditorium, the opposing fans never had to travel more than 30 minutes. Tonight they travelled roughly as far we did, but it was like the whole town picked up and moved there. It was insane ,not to mention the skills the opposing players showed. Our team never under estimated anyone, especially when we knew we'd played poorly before and that anything can happen. That wasn't to be the problem.

We knew that the Hickville newspaper had slandered us and tried to tear us down, even personally attacking Lenwood. So we were all the more convinced we had to punish them and ewmbarass them in front of their families and friends. Team and fans together were to humiliate the opposing side and make them feel as though they should've never come, but stayed home and gotten drunk, beaten their kids and collected wellfare checks. The problem was, this team could capitalize on our prevailing problem.

Are you on drugs, some of that post is really hard to understand. Was the other town really called Hickville? It would suck to be from Hickville.

Sorry your team lost. I remember going to a couple of great b-ball games back when I was in high school. Your school played tough competition and stepped up to the plate, that's all that matters.

Like I said ,ever since B.A.L.'s was over our team was growing weak. Lenwood was breaking up mentally, his confience failing. Brett and Jamie our two other best palyers had to work over time. Tonight's team was good enough to capitalize on it. They were all black and could jump a giraffe. They actually had one white player. Ironicaly he was their leading punisher. He shot three's like magic and we found him shooting more foul shots than we shot on their net all together. The team had a stron point gaurd and some otehr good players too. Our team battled mighty and incessantly pressed, but between foul shots and breakaways, they were just building up on us. It was like weight, hard to shake off, and the one honky gave them such a lead i nteh beging a sort of defetist mentality sept in, only crushig lenwood further still the fans stayed loyal and sheered on.

We must have a had a cheer every two minutes, and if you'vestayed reading this ridiculously (but i must say deep) post, here comes your, m uch deserved, entertainment. We were told we could no longer be vular or demeaning to opposing teams so we tried to use only positive cheers to support Holy Ghost. One is spelling out the name and chanting victory. We also supported he team by cheering our players. But when Steel High began standing up and pointing to the score board and copying our cheers it got personal.

You see, we never sat down and only had 75-100 for their 500 fans. And we were msotly comprised of highschool studetns, like I said this is a town we had to contend w/. They had no class either, they reall yrounded up teh trailer park tash and project waste for this one. All the wretches and leeches of society, the kinda people you laugh at when they get killed. Well we began to attack the fact that we work more hours a year then most of those itting across from us ever will in their lives, we remineded them that incest was perversion. We chanted, "W/ points we may not lead, but w/ our cousins we don't breed." Then there was the al lto classic "it's all right, it's ok, your gonna work for us someday." At the end the waste of life fans began chanting "We're going to states we're going to states" We replied i neh same jsut replaced states w/ "College". We ever heard anything after that, but do u think we stopped the taunts? No remember, we wer to humiliate them and all though reminding them that paying forcable is expensive, going to prison and getting you **** pushed in jst to watch HBO isn't much of a trade off. Oh it was great fun yelling "steelmill" "welfare" "greencard" and "white trash, spic, speer chucker" across the court. It alost made the night worth it.

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Here I'd like to say, my parents are the first of my family to go to College, I come from working class background, most kids in my school do. Most are Catholics of European descent ad ancestors i neh depression etc. etc. By no means does college mean success or wealth or happiness. The idea however is that across from us was a pathetic mass of under achievers. Exactly what my parents and my friend's parents and their forbears drove to rise from and they hope we will continue on w/ the process. When dealing w/ minorities in this post I may seem racist, I am not in the traditional and negative sense of the word. My distaste for those wo represent certain groups is clear however and if you are offended, rather than complain and whine as those who i saw tonight did, prove me worng. Further more my girlfriend is peurto rican and she made numerous comments about the crowd's minorities behavor (the white trash too.) Please contiue ...


Although some are pretty wealthy at our school (parents may make 400 G's a year) most of us come from parents of working class backgroundand have to work like dogs to mke our keep. Summer jobs, weekend jobs, but are stil expected o keep up our grades in a very challenging school environement, be involved in extracurricular activites, do servie projects and slews of other things. I think our teachers undersood the rustration and allowed us to moc k and ridicule the 50 year old pedaphiles in row 5, who think just becase they never graduted high school means they still belong. Seriously one guy was so patetic, he was bald so we brushed our hair and chanted for him to cut his ponytail. He never stood up after that. And some kids tried to pick fights, but uh "Omar" as he was tagged wasn't so thuggish after someone stpped up to him. This balc kid who was a 6th time senior came around waving his shirt, it was a Steel-High Jersey and a kid shouted "treatthat shirt well we know it 's the only one you got!" Well Our buddy forgot that if you want to act intimidating you have to back it up. Down comes a freshman, albeit he's 6'4" and benches 300 pounds in reps and could beat up most grown men. But he was right in Omar's face and you thought Silva gave a stare down. Evan was held back by our athletic Director and the other teams captain held back our Gangsta buddy, but Evan kept trying to move forward and was spouting out threats that he would carry out, and there's this guy 10 years old backing up and *****in out. Talk bout *****. Nad after the game a tussle started up w/ another one of our freshma and this guy in his twenties. Too bad Jim only messed him up in the scrap to urt the guy and not inflict serious pain, but wasn't hurt either and s they guy could get locked up for assaulting a minor. Plus 5 others kids ran in b4 eve got a chance to collect wha had happend. The 5O, jsut sent them seperate ways.

No other violent interactions occured, but two kids cornered the pony tailed pedophile frm b4 and told him to get a jodb and stop wasting descent people's tax money. he said he was on disability and to leave him alone (another big mouth turn *****). He seemded fien to me when he was skipping around and trying to start up cheers and chants (however unoriginal and rehashed they were). Oh and when thse black mothers all started yelling cuz their kids had scored some fail shots. Our kids started chanting "wee-eave,wee-eave" They never saifd anything after that. And when theychanted Steel high we'd follow up w/ "sucks" they'd say it louder and we'd say i louder. SO sthey couldn't cheer for their team any more than clap, but we'd jsut droen that out w/ "HolyGhost". And let me tel lay h was w/ us. When they so creatively tried to follow up "HGP!" w/ "sux we just chanted "Steel-High" and cuz hicks don't challenge their minds and incest creates retardation, they kept going. It must've gone two rotations before half of them caught on. HAHAHAHAHA

Seriously i have to ask, who won? The team w/ the underdog's who's pitbull tenacity carried them to the very end and whose crowd's venom will leave suburbs of harrisburg w/ some 300 suicide victims in the morning. That being, a team who will come back next year w/ more matured and experienced palyers and can look forward to a career and purpose in life. or the team who goes on to probably loose in the Eastern State finals, State semis and has noting in life to anticipate than to be 50 years old and going to all their ala mater's basketball games?

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This goes to you specifically Zen and anyone else who experiences similar problems. I admit my grammar is ****ty, pathetic at best, but my spelling is a result of a sticky keybord (No not that, Ice tea). The keys stick, plus I'm typing fast, been up for all most 20 hours and a little buzzed, this combuined w/ biterness may be why i come off as a ****. So on drugs? No, but might as well be. Sorry for any misunderstanding, I'll attempt to correct it. And no Zen it's not really called hickville, though there is one in OHIO. We didn't reall y knwo the towns name, so we christened them That. We're not sure how they got here as the prolly don't have enough money for gas to make the trip, but i swear we saw some roll up on tractors.

Sorry your team lost, its too late for me to read all that......

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