Originally posted by utbb01:
I'm just getting home for the weekend as I decided to stay in Charlotte after the game. Let me first congratulate Shelby on a thorough win. We were beat in every phase of the game! When I got to the game both teams were already into their pregame warmups so I can't comment on anything happening pregame. Now I'm very familiar with our pregame and we do "get crunk" to excite ourselves and if engaged we will willingly participate in trash talk. Again I wasn't there this past Friday but I've seen us in the past. Now during the game I witnessed alot of trash talk from both teams and my only problem was with our kids talking trash and we were getting our butts kicked. Trash talk isn't void of the game and to be honest it doesn't bother me to an extent. Cause the best way to deal with trash talk is the next play. So I too have a problem with our class being questioned but at the same time I couldn't understand us talking while we were getting creamed. Now please don't take my opinion as saying that trash talk is good, I'm just saying that I don't have a problem with it. So on to Bball and I will be back next year.
		
		
	 
Well put, bro. I share the same perspective. I didn't make it to this game due to having to work, however, I talked to a couple of kids who absolutely loved everything that took place that game, the whole atmosphere of it all. They spoke of how they had never been so hype for a game, and that they were both very much willing participants whenever they saw the Carver players approaching. The pre game thing, along with you all's amazing band, made it a memorable night and experience for many of these kids. The important thing is that good sportmanship was displayed after game, w/ the players dapping each other up, shaking hands, and showing mutual respect for one another. Maybe, it is a cultural thing, but at least there were no actual fighting like you so often see on ESPN in baseball games and hockey matches, which are so often dismissed as "Boys will be boys" and not anything negative and sterotypical. Anyway, you bros take it easy. I'm sure we will be seeing more Carver versus Shelby games in the future, two historic powerhouse football programs.