B-Town Rumble

Tonight is the Bountiful vs.Woods Cross Football game! For 31 years the Braves and the Wildcats have met on the grid iron.....Bountiful has won 25 of the match ups! The last time BHS lost was 18 years ago. The last time it was a close game was in 2006......Thus my kids are all over tonight's game.
To those attending BHS after the 1990's, my kids included, the big cross town rivalry is with Woods Cross High School, but when I was at BHS the cross town rivalry was with Viewmont High School and WX was, well the new school with not much going on. Viewmont is actually in the city limits so the contention in the community was feirce during game weeks. At school we would have all kinds of crazy contest and dress ups for the week prior to the Football and Basketball games. Always several of the senior guys would sleep on the football field or up on the mountain to guard "B's" from being vandalized and/or changed to "V's" or painted maroon and gold. We would "Oreo" the cars at Viewmont...no mascot stealing when they are a Brave or Viking....so the silly vandalism instead........The "oreoing" came about because the Vikes would say "oh, ee, oh, oh, ee, oh," as a Viking chant and some Brave changed it to oreeoh, so being clever we would split Oreo cookies and smash them on our rivals cars. Sometimes the rivalry things would get a bit out of hand. But for the most part even when threatened with legal consequences what ever happened during rivalry week would be shrugged off with not much fuss. At the games we would chant "Bountiful City" and the winner of that years series of games would ultimately win the 'Key to the City.'
I don't know all that has gone on this week at BHS in preparation for the big game. I am sure it was fun for the students, just as it has always been. Hayden has told me that the students have been asked to come to the game decked out in Red, thus causing a "Red Out." Hayden thinks they need to call it a bleed out, because they are going to make WX bleed.......why are boys so violent?
The times have changed, but the intensity of an rivalry does not.
The Sophomores(42-0) and Jr.Varsity (36-18) teams won their games, as did the Girls soccer and volleyball teams. The pressure is now on the Varsity Football team....even the Deseret News is trying to psych the Braves out with an article telling the tale of the 18 game winning streak that Bountiful is on against WX and how this just might be the year and team to break the streak......... BHS is currently the #1-4A team in the state so a win from any opponent would be too sweet. I hope, no, I plan on the Braves continuing on with their winning ways as to avoid the B-town-WX rumble that would ultimately happen were the Wildcats to win.
Up next week will be my true cross town rivalry game against Viewmont......within the family this should be interesting with Jordan a true red Brave and Laurie a Viking....also the new head Football coach for VHS was an assistant at BHS an is one of Jordan and Nelson's favorites.

GO BRAVES! What ever happens I hpor they give it their best.......I have to go dig out my red for the game.
MCC