BearsFan88

In Peanut Football in Big Stone my coach would make us do what he called grass drills when we did screwed up stuff. If we loafed around, grass drills. Senseless penalties at the games, grass drills at practice the next day. 

Both need to address the lack of discipline tonight. 

Wow.   Graham getting seriously hosed by the refs. Seems to me the quality of officiating at the high school level has dropped off in a big way everywhere.  

This has been a sloppy game for both teams.

Parking at Walmart High School is ridiculous. 
 
 

Most definitely. The bad fans ruin it for the good fans. 
 
There have been times when football players have behaved badly. 
 
-According to some Gate City fans, in 2001 some Powell Valley players were flipping them off. I don’t remember. It wouldn’t surprise me if some Gate City fans were provoking them. But as a player you have to learn how to tune out hecklers. 
 
-In 2015 Union hosted Graham second round of the playoffs. There were Graham players acting like jerks, making rude gestures toward the Union fanbase. Some of the Union fans could have been instigating it. I didn’t see anything. But as I have previously stated, you have to learn to tune out hecklers. 
 
Athletes need to avoid getting into power struggles with opposing fanbases. 
 
Fans need to learn to keep their mouths shut. 

Yeah I was thinking that. 
 
I recall it was Graham and Richlands who would run the show at some competitions around. 
 
Graham may not have been quite as good as Richlands most of the time but they were still pretty damn good. 
 
Richlands was usually louder than Graham anyway. 
 
I was a bandy back in the day. Wanted to teach it. Now I teach Special Education in NE Tennessee. Love it. 

Yeah I was thinking that. 
 
I recall it was Graham and Richlands who would run the show at some competitions around. 
 
Graham may not have been quite as good as Richlands most of the time but they were still pretty damn good. 
 
Richlands was usually louder than Graham anyway. 
 
I was a bandy back in the day. Wanted to teach it. Now I teach Special Education in NE Tennessee. Love it. 

Oh I could tell stories about different fan bases. 
 
Gate City-Historically, among the worst fans in SWVA. You had grown men and women mouthing off to kids on the opposing team. You’d have some fans kicking the drum major’s podium to make her fall. You’d have students throwing objects at opposing fans in the visitor section. In 2002 or 2003 I was talking to friends from Gate City and was threatened bodily harm because I was from Powell Valley. 
 
Come to find out that the majority of Gate City fans on here act like they have a lick of sense. 
 
Breathitt County KY-In 2003, PV football and band buses vandalized. Death threats to a freshman PV band member. 
 
JJ Kelly-The cockiness of the fans was on another level. They are the only fanbase I have ever seen making a t shirt for winning a game. I remember back in 1999, when they pulled off the biggest upset in 30 years vs. PV. It snapped a fairly lengthy winning streak for PV’s program, so emotions were obviously running high. But when a pickup truck full of Kelly fans throws a rake at high school football players then that’s ridiculous. 
 
Another incident was when I was 9 or 10 years old. Back in like 1997. PV was at Kelly. Beat the stuffing out of Kelly too. PV mascot Dennis Durham had gotten killed in a car wreck (I think it was a wreck) before the season. A memorial wreath for Dennis was on the sidelines for PV every game. Some girl from Kelly grabbed it off the sideline, ran with it, and ripped it up. 
 
Central-The arrogance is about as bad as JJ Kelly. Their football program just started getting good. The arrogance started getting even more off the charts. The fan base is obnoxious. 

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I remember 15-20 years ago they had 100-115 and they WERE loud. 

Whoever scores the most points at the end of the game. 
 
It could be Union. It could be Graham. I really don’t know. 

Mountain Lake Dirty Dancers. 
 
Fight song? I’ve Had the Time of my Life. 

Mountain Lake Dirty Dancers. 
 
Fight song? I’ve Had the Time of my Life. 

Mountain Lake Dirty Dancers. 
 
Fight song? I’ve Had the Time of my Life. 

The adults in Wise County were a bunch of babies. It was mostly around Appalachia. They didn’t want to go to school “with no Vikings!” 
 
But things eventually calmed down. Once people realized it was happening whether they liked it or not. A few parents sent their kids to Norton because they didn’t want their kids to go to school with Powell Valley people. More power to them I suppose?
 
Consolidation isn’t ideal. But more often than not it’s for the best. It was for the best in Wise County. It’s for the best in Giles County. 

The adults in Wise County were a bunch of babies. It was mostly around Appalachia. They didn’t want to go to school “with no Vikings!” 
 
But things eventually calmed down. Once people realized it was happening whether they liked it or not. A few parents sent their kids to Norton because they didn’t want their kids to go to school with Powell Valley people. More power to them I suppose?
 
Consolidation isn’t ideal. But more often than not it’s for the best. It was for the best in Wise County. It’s for the best in Giles County. 

The adults in Wise County were a bunch of babies. It was mostly around Appalachia. They didn’t want to go to school “with no Vikings!” 
 
But things eventually calmed down. Once people realized it was happening whether they liked it or not. A few parents sent their kids to Norton because they didn’t want their kids to go to school with Powell Valley people. More power to them I suppose?
 
Consolidation isn’t ideal. But more often than not it’s for the best. It was for the best in Wise County. It’s for the best in Giles County. 

I’ll say this and be done. 
 
It sounds like Vaught knew what he was doing. Interpret that as you wish. But that’s just how I see it with the information I have been given. 

It’s a shame that that’s what will be talked about regarding the team but that’s the legacy. Richlands won 17-7. Not exactly a blowout, not exactly close. But a play or two from being a totally different conversation.
Take this with a grain of salt but when I lived in and around Roanoke from 2017-2021, I asked some Salem people about it. Most of them shrugged it off and said “Oh well.” So that tells me most Salem people aren’t all that concerned about it. Why should they be? They avenged that loss in 2004. They have won a total of 10 championships. 
 
I have only seen one fanbase get mad over it and it’s been the Richlands group. 
Some people need to learn to handle criticism of their teams and not get their panties in a wad over it. It’s just a game.
 
Anyway, Go Bears!

Worst Richlands team I have seen in a long time. 
 
Up there with the 99 Richlands team that went 2-8. 

I’ll say this and be done. 
 
It sounds like Vaught knew what he was doing. Interpret that as you wish. But that’s just how I see it with the information I have been given. 

It’s a shame that that’s what will be talked about regarding the team but that’s the legacy. Richlands won 17-7. Not exactly a blowout, not exactly close. But a play or two from being a totally different conversation.
Take this with a grain of salt but when I lived in and around Roanoke from 2017-2021, I asked some Salem people about it. Most of them shrugged it off and said “Oh well.” So that tells me most Salem people aren’t all that concerned about it. Why should they be? They avenged that loss in 2004. They have won a total of 10 championships. 
 
I have only seen one fanbase get mad over it and it’s been the Richlands group. 
Some people need to learn to handle criticism of their teams and not get their panties in a wad over it. It’s just a game.
 
Anyway, Go Bears!

I’ll say this and be done. 
 
It sounds like Vaught knew what he was doing. Interpret that as you wish. But that’s just how I see it with the information I have been given. 

It’s a shame that that’s what will be talked about regarding the team but that’s the legacy. Richlands won 17-7. Not exactly a blowout, not exactly close. But a play or two from being a totally different conversation.
Take this with a grain of salt but when I lived in and around Roanoke from 2017-2021, I asked some Salem people about it. Most of them shrugged it off and said “Oh well.” So that tells me most Salem people aren’t all that concerned about it. Why should they be? They avenged that loss in 2004. They have won a total of 10 championships. 
 
I have only seen one fanbase get mad over it and it’s been the Richlands group. 
Some people need to learn to handle criticism of their teams and not get their panties in a wad over it. It’s just a game.
 
Anyway, Go Bears!

I’ll say this and be done. 
 
It sounds like Vaught knew what he was doing. Interpret that as you wish. But that’s just how I see it with the information I have been given. 

It’s a shame that that’s what will be talked about regarding the team but that’s the legacy. Richlands won 17-7. Not exactly a blowout, not exactly close. But a play or two from being a totally different conversation.
Take this with a grain of salt but when I lived in and around Roanoke from 2017-2021, I asked some Salem people about it. Most of them shrugged it off and said “Oh well.” So that tells me most Salem people aren’t all that concerned about it. Why should they be? They avenged that loss in 2004. They have won a total of 10 championships. 
 
I have only seen one fanbase get mad over it and it’s been the Richlands group. 
Some people need to learn to handle criticism of their teams and not get their panties in a wad over it. It’s just a game.
 
Anyway, Go Bears!

You might be right but we had to listen for last 7 years this class that graduated was gonna win 2 or 3 state titles and we know that didn't happen

Well considering they have about 5 girls basketball state championships, calling them a girls basketball school isn’t far off.
 
Considering their 53-63 program record in football, it’s safe to say they’re not a football school .