“GAME DAY!!!” Students shout and cheer as a few seniors run round and round the cafeteria. The air is thrumming with the excitement and cheers emanating from the students. Loud blasts from vuvuzelas break up the shouts, each blast getting louder in an attempt to beat out one another. Every student is looking forward to the football game against Sequoyah. This year Creekview is going to do it again! This game was going to be huge! In fact, it even got its own webpage on Facebook, Creekview vs. Sequoyah. At the game the schools are separated by a field full of players, but when online students can interact and converse freely with one another, this connection quickly got heated. 
The real drama started before the actual game day, on a Facebook page dedicated to Creekview’s football team. At first it was just a few, “GO GRIZZLIES,” or, “GO CHIEFS!” But the conversation quickly escalated. Coaches were kept busy editing the page of overly offensive comments, but they weren’t quick enough to block them all.
Sequoyah seniors and Creekview juniors had the majority of the comments as they retaliated back and forth. And one Creekview senior edited grizzly bears and word bubble that read, “S**T,” into a Sequoyah football picture. Sequoyah fought back mainly by trying to twist Creekview students’ comments and make them seem self-insulting. They did a pretty good job of this but in the end it didn’t really matter. Actions will always speak louder than words, and that Friday night Creekview was the loudest!
It doesn’t seem likely that future football game pages will get as heated as this one, but who knows? After all even the most surprising people can get riled up when a competition is at hand. Based on this year though, next year’s facebook page for Creekview vs. Sequoyah is going to be even more heated. After two years of defeat Sequoyah is going to be dying to win, and messing with Creekview kids will be a way to elevate themselves. Creekview kids living in the Hickory Flat area, Sequoyah’s domain, are still being assaulted and bad mouthed by Sequoyah kids. When a group of Creekview students went to eat at McDonalds everything was fine until they told a few curious kids where they were from. Immediately the restaurant went quiet. Tension will probably always be in the air between these two new rival schools, and the webpage helps it last even longer. Next year it would probably be a good bet to just forego the pages, after all the primary focus should be on the game, not the smack talking.
By: Taylor Gates
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