Saturday, September 15, 2007

because you can can can

The good-spirited taunting went both ways at the annual meeting of two arch rival high school football teams last night. The fans from Webb School of Knoxville shouted "Where is Harry?" to which the Knoxville Catholic High School fans responded "He's on SportsCenter!" Of course, that's only wishful thinking at this point. As far as I know, KCHS alum Harrison Smith has yet to get any playing time for Notre Dame. Webb countered with "0 and 2," a reference to Notre Dame's dismal season record. If they keep losing, maybe Charlie Weis will give Smith a chance to show why he earned the Mr. Football award last year.

Because Webb hadn't beaten Catholic since 2001, the enthusiastic Irish fans reacted to the "0 and 2" chant by shouting "0 and 5!" Better make that "0 and 6." Catholic defeated Webb 28 to 7 last night. I was there for a presentation at halftime. Both schools collected food and money for the Second Harvest Food Bank. In that competition, Webb outscored Catholic 143.7 to 75.5 pounds of food per student.

Missy at The House of Flying Monkeys thought that the "CBFC was pouring haterade" on her. Can anyone tell me what those initials mean? From where I sat, both student sections seemed plenty loud, until the score got lopsided in the second half and the Webb fans got less noisy. The stands were packed. Some Webb parents were kind enough to let me sit in their section. The guy sitting next to me was the owner of Gridiron Burgers, which I promised to try soon, especially since it's a smoke-free restaurant. I may disagree with Missy about the "haterade" but I'll be the first to admit she is right about the talented Webb cheerleaders.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous Missyb said...

Frank-
Sorry I didn't clarify my statement. CBFC is our webbie cheerleader daughter's sometime boyfriend (Cute Boy From Catholic). They had quite a buildup of smacktalking going on betw. them over the past week and after the game was over there was a bunch more. But, it's a limited incident, only a personal thing. Everyone was great at the game, and that's saying something considering the intensity of this rivalry.

Thanks for reading!
Missyb

9/16/2007  
Anonymous Catholic High Parent said...

I have to say that I was really impressed with the Webb cheerleaders. Even when the game was obviously going to be a loss, they were dancing and cheering and keeping up the morale.

9/18/2007  

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