Go West Side!
Friends, faculty, and acquaintances, on this day, I ask you this. Is it wrong for a student to cheer against his or her own high school sports team? Before such an easy answer rolls to the forefront of your mind, let me ask you another question. Can a person be pushed beyond the limit of his toleration capacity to cheer for a team that is not exclusive to represent his school, but still promoted to be? Speaking as a former and potential future football player and as a great friend of many of the football players at North Marion, I can undoubtedly say that the answer to the latter question is yes. My words are not spoken alone. Many of my peers feel the same about this issue. North Marion High School is not based on education. North Marion High School is not based on equality. North Marion High School is not based on faculty or students. North Marion High School is centered around the "god-like", almighty, manly competition most of us have come to know as...football.
Despite the outcome of any single game, or should I say any single loss, our school as a whole either chooses to or is forced to fall to our knees and throw kudos at this undeserving and over appreciated "ghost team". North Marion is labeled around the state as "a football school". They are heartless, cruel, unfair, and bias. They are held before "big" football games: West Fairmont, East Fairmont, and Morgantown. As far as I'm concerned, if we are to be labeled as "a football school", then shouldn't we have at the least a decent football team? The players are not at fault. Out of these, I can think of only one that is praised and gratified to the point of my sickness. The reason I use the term "ghost team" is that our school seems to live in the past when it comes to this dying sport of football. So who would blame a person for cheering against his or her own high school sports team? When events occur, and buttons are pushed, the hearts and minds of certain individuals can only be tarnished to a certain point of dullness before dissatisfaction bares its teeth and someone from the North Marion section of the crowd begins to yell, "Go West Side!". When your last name becomes more important than the skills you possess and what you can do for the team, that is when you lose respect, and not far behind, participants. Has anyone noticed when the majority of these events are held? I have. Then why do we have such a special week in honor of football? What makes football any more worthy or different than cross-country, swimming, or softball? Recently, it seems as though our celebration of Homecoming is marked by how badly Morgantown High annihilates us, 50, 60, 70? The numbers are never too high. Can we hold three thuses with in a month? I have nothing against thuses, but isn't there a rule to allow only one thuse per month? But hey, I forgot, we're talking about the superstars, I mean the football players. ams, not including the Husky Marching Band. The only problem is that instead of admonishing them for this behavior, we pat them on the back.
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