It used to be South City vs El Camino. One game I remember occurred on Thanksgiving. I took my sister, Michael Sue to the game. We had parkas. It rained and rained. It was the big game of the year.
Golden Valley is playing Merced High tonight. In the past the game had playoff implications. Tonight it is not so. The once mighty Golden Valley High School, the new school (now 15 years old) has lost its advantage. Its new coach is trying to field a "safe" team. There were just not that many guys that went out for football. When you look across the field there are only 12 guys suited up when the one offense is on the field. This means there are not a huge amount of special teams, and there are some guys that are playing both sides of the line. They will be on the field throughout the game. This is what I mean by a "safe" team.
The Merced High Bears on the other hand are blessed with a great team this year. They have been romping up and down the valley leveling teams in their way.
The pranks are going on as well. Since Golden Valley High School is the team with the gold and red colors, someone climbed over the gate and boldly stroked upon their quad mustard and catchup streaks the letter M and wrote upon the seats, Merced is the best team.. etc.
I share the room at Merced High with a teacher who is the faculty sponsor cheerleading squad. With all the girls accounted for they number just under 50. This is pretty amazing since the cost to the family per student is over 600 dollars. They come during my teaching hour and sign the sign in sheet so that they may continue to get credit for their cheerleader activities and the adviser has some accountability for their whereabouts.
My students were working on introductions today. We stopped our lessons and learned how to pay a verbal compliment. The cheerleaders responded with thank yous and smiles. I told their adviser that they should be complimented for that. She said that she will tell them.
I hope you had a great week
: ) Pat
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Go South City, South City, South City High! I know it's hard to realize, but your little sis actually went to the rival high school! The theme for our class (of '77) should be apathy. The class just before I came there in in 1974 had some big conference win, but they all graduated, our three years were lose, lose, lose, but then that was ok, because we were the apathetic class. The cheerleaders would get up to cheer and we would just stand there. I know this frustrated the heck out of them!
'trick, I know that your big reunion is this weekend, I hope it comes out really cool. Hi to Earl, et al..!
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