Sunday, February 25, 2007
How Not to Trash Talk: A True Story
Ok first off congratulations to both the guys and girls teams for winning (no slaughtering) their opposition at the Provincials this past weekend at the Aitken Center. Both teams played incredible and the girls beat Hartland by 22 and the guys beat McAdam by 18 points. Now to the stories behind the title of this post. First off even though Hartland lost they didn't embarrass themselves too bad in the way they cheered. (except for their raccoon mascot. Why do the Hartland Huskies have a raccoon for a mascot any ways) When the guys game started a whole new group of fans showed up from McAdam High. Tee Hee. One guy had a sign that read "Go Warriors Go" (McAdam Warriors). Our guys got off to a 14-0 lead which quieted them down for a while (we may or may not have given them a hard time yelling things like "Where did that sign go" "I wish We could read that sign again" and singing " signs signs nowhere are there signs) Half way through the second half McAdam hit a three bringing them within 15 and the guy holding the sign ran over to us shoved the sign out towards us yelling "read the sign, read the sign" To which myself and about four others in my row started saying "it's upside down", "it's upside down" After about 20 seconds of this exchange he realized his sign was upside down and retreated back to his fellow fans. Now comes my favourite attempt at trash talk of all time: With about 5 minutes to go in the game Mc Adam scored bringing our lead down to a 19 point one. One of the McAdam fans started yelling at us "What happened to your 24 point lead?" I replied "wow you got us it is down to 19 points now" at which point he gave me the finger. I think I laughed for the rest of the game and several more times that evening and the next day and a few times tonight about it. So here are my tips to those of you out there that would like to learn how not to trash talk:
Tip # 1 Always make sure your props are in working order.
Tip # 2 Sporting an in your face attitude when your Basketball team is still losing by 19 is kind of foolish (but funny)
Tip # 3 Just cheer for Grand Manan then you don't have to worry about cheering for the losing team.
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