Cheerleader fight!

[Baz]

The good part starts after the 2 minute mark......



It's East St. Louis. You could play this while watching the first one on mute.....

[stevej37]

cat-fight!!

[masraum]

W T F !

If I had to guess, I'd say the Catholic chicks started it too.

[Rusty Heap]

Good inner-city group hug.

Where be dey white woman at?

[pwd72s]

Tough schools...

[URY914]

who couldn't see that coming....

[Rot 911]

I think both groups have watched too many movies.

[tdw28210]

Originally Posted by pwd72s

Tough schools...

Yeah, so back in the day, I played on a pretty good Catholic HS football team. We were the defending State of Illinois 2A champs in the mid-80's. Won every game of my Sr. year except the last regular season one, so that sort of messed up our home playoff schedule.

We win our first playoff game on the road, win quarterfinal at home but now, we have to travel to East St. Louis to play East St. Louis Assumption. How tough was that HS? Well, we played them in '84 and the school LITERALLY was closed 5 years later and turned into a correctional center!

Anyway, we roll up the morning of the game and hit the field for warm ups. It was overcast, a little breezy and in the low 50's. Their game field is basically like a dirt infield, no grass and lined by rickety-ass wooden bleachers. Now, we were used to this because our home field was basically the same, but at least we had grass in the end zone and aluminum bleachers on the home side.

Assumption soon rolls onto their side of the field to warm up too and within 30 seconds we KNOW we're in trouble. Big, fast and fired up. Their tailback is bigger than our fullback and twice as fast and their DE's are huge! There is no way we are beating these guys without some sort of freak play or act of God.

Understand, we're combination of semi-atheletic wanna be preppies and a few corn-fed country boys. Our QB was legit, but smaller and our tailback was good when he wasn't injured (or faking it to get out of practice).

We try not to look intimidated and jog back into the visitors locker room, which is right next to the home locker room. They do the same and then we hear those guys screaming and yelling and pounding on the walls on their side. I felt a little sick and like I was getting ready for a legit fight.

Anyway, we win the toss and elect to kick. Literally, in their first series, the sky just opens up and it begins to pour rain. Like buckets of rain. I think the officials would have suspended the game by today's rules, but back then, you played on. Within 10 minutes that field is a mud pit. No one can make a cut or plant a foot. Pretty sure I found couple hunks of glass from broken bottles in the mud when I was at the bottom of a pile.

Some how, some way we end up beating these guys 14-0. There is NO WAY we win this game without the rain. The resulting mud just completely erased their speed advantage and our QB managed to flip a couple short passes to our TE for TD's. After the game we all shook hands (there were no fights) and I saw the disappointment in these guys eyes as i was walking down the line shaking hands. I honestly felt a little guilty for winning that game. We were hopping back on our bus as the "still" defending state champs and they were stuck in East St. Louis with no more football.

I will never forget that experience.

P.S. They didn't even have cheerleaders at the game to get in a fight with ours. If they did, they'd probably would have won.

[Crowbob]

Great Story!

[legion]

Reminds me of this:

[dafischer]

Damn Baz, that Steely Dan worked perfectly with the genteel young women having at it.

[sc_rufctr]

The white cop in the middle of it all was hysterical. He didn't know what to do... lol

[flatbutt]

I went to East St. Louis once... only once.

[Baz]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Damn Baz, that Steely Dan worked perfectly with the genteel young women having at it.

Ha ha....it really does, Dave! Amazing.....

[Hendog]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Damn Baz, that Steely Dan worked perfectly with the genteel young women having at it.

Watched it without SD, then with SD! I love Steely Dan! I laughed out loud with SD added in. It gives it a comedic “spring”.

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by masraum

W T F !

If I had to guess, I'd say the Catholic chicks started it too.

the girl in the purple/ white sleeves definitely started it.

[livi]

I really don´t want to sound like a racist, but..
..jolly good show!

[sc_rufctr]

I'm still laughing at the white cop... lol

[kach22i]

Too much testosterone.

Effects of gendered behavior on testosterone in women and men
https://www.pnas.org/content/112/45/13805

Testosterone is typically understood to contribute to maleness and masculinity, although it also responds to behaviors such as competition. Competition is crucial to evolution and may increase testosterone but also is selectively discouraged for women and encouraged for men via gender norms. ................

Competition drives evolution; its outcomes influence key indicators of evolutionary fitness such as survival and reproduction (13). Competition involves attempts to acquire or defend real or perceived resources such as status, territory, partners, and, especially relevant to this article, power (14).................

In humans, competition can increase testosterone, but competition and wielding power are also subject to social forces: Western gender norms promote wielding power for men and discourage it for women (10, 24). Gender socialization can thus constrain women’s and men’s social behaviors, directly (through social enforcement of norms) or indirectly (via internalization of norms) (25). In addition, conceptualizations of masculinity tend to overlap with those of power and testosterone (3, 26). These gender considerations might influence how women and men engage in behaviors in ways that matter for testosterone. When men engage in more frequent competition than women do, or in ways that accord more with masculinity norms, this may have implications for testosterone. If men, more than women, are socialized to engage in competitive behaviors such as wielding power that increase testosterone, then this may partially explain why men have higher testosterone than women. Clearly, testosterone responds to social context, but huge gaps remain in understanding how neuroendocrine plasticity is shaped by social norms, especially those related to gender..................

Our experiment provides evidence for a novel gender→testosterone pathway and points to possible mechanisms and mediation via gender-stereotyped behavior. We showed that wielding power increases testosterone in women regardless of whether it is done in stereotypically masculine or feminine ways, supporting the stereotyped behavior hypothesis (H1) over the stereotyped performance hypothesis (H2) for how gender might modulate testosterone. ...........

Testosterone is typically understood to underlie masculinity and maleness despite theory suggesting it is related to other phenomena such as competition (6). Our experiment supports this theory and falls in with empirical evidence, with results that support an association with competition rather than masculinity...................

Why do men have higher testosterone than women? Clearly, heritability—nature—plays a large role in this difference (34, 35). Our research points to an additional reason for differences in testosterone: the understudied role of nurture—social context. Social context akin to gender norms may have biological consequences when gender norms overlap with evolutionarily salient phenomena such as wielding power. Because wielding power is subject to gender-specific socialization, gender socialization can constrain how frequently women and men engage in behaviors that affect testosterone. Testosterone thus reflects some combination of both heritable and social influences..................

We found that wielding power increased testosterone for women but not for men, consistent with some of our other studies where experimental manipulations were more successful at increasing testosterone in women (29, 36, 37). Although evidence is mixed, some forms of competition do increase testosterone in men, although these are mainly formalized ones with clear win/loss outcomes as with athletic engagements (7, 18). Our study used a more social interactive engagement, with the opportunity for rich social communication consistently marking power rather than merely outcome...................

A major implication of our experiment is that gender socialization can contribute to variation in human testosterone levels. Our findings show that discrete events of gender-related socialization may account for some portion of the observed “sex” difference in adult testosterone levels. This adds to growing evidence that gender and sex are more permeable categories than is typically accounted for in bioscientific research (38) and opens up new questions about physiological pathways that link gender socialization to human biology.

We may be entertained by seeing women act like men, but it may be the natural outcome of their social empowerment and environment of competition that has raised testosterone levels.

More women in prison these days for violent crimes, the gender gaps are shortening.

2018
The Gender Divide: Tracking Women's State Prison Growth
https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/women_overtime.html

Women have become the fastest-growing segment of the incarcerated population.......

If you click the link above you will find out that incarceration levels rising are a result of policy, but that does not answer all the female increases in prison population.

Based on previous research on this topic I've done in general women have 1/10 the testosterone of men. However even small increases in testosterone can affect behavior.

There are social and biological factors involved, and in my opinion these should not be considered separate or unrelated issues. They are tied together.

Those that approve of such confrontations as seen in the video actually encourage more of it, and those that disapprove discourage it, social behaviors are affected by society, humans are social animals.

[unclebilly]

Who won the basketball game?