History repeated itself once again in the rivalry between the Springdale Bulldogs and the Har-Ber Wildcats. The Wildcats continued their eight year win streak.
Before the game, during the school’s pep rally, something more eventful happened. A simple statement by Josh Frasier made the Twitterverse go crazy. Every Wildcat with an ounce of school spirit took to Twitter to tweet about how the Springdale Bulldogs were nothing but “Childs Play.”
The bulldogs of course weren’t going to go out without a fight, so they too responded on twitter with a picture of the basketball team in their gym, with the words “Huck Far-Ber,” typed across the picture.
The picture was assumed to be a diss to the basketball team. Someone from the rival school also took to Instagram to show a picture she snapped earlier that morning of her standing in front of Har-Ber making a gun with her hand. How clever.
With the game approaching, and the so called “Twitter-beef,” between the bulldogs and the wildcats heating up, people were on the edge of their computer screens waiting for what was going to happen next.
Fast-forwarding to later on that night, the Twitter world was again booming with praise to the wildcats, who had once again beat the bulldogs for the seventh year in a row.
Following the win, and the intense Twitter spats students wanted to hear from included not only the person who brought the phrase to light, but the person who took that phrase and used it to infuriate and hype up the tension between the two schools.
“It’s like my thing, ever since I came to Har-Ber I’d go up to all my friends and call them child’s play,” said senior football player Josh Frasier. “I was thinking of how to make it bigger and that’s when coach called me and Sain to speak. It was last minute and that’s what I came up with,” said Frasier.
It may have been last minute for Frasier, but it was right on time for senior Skyler Davis, who immediately took to Twitter to have a little fun with the phrase. With Skyler’s constant funny, but slightly offensive, bashing of Springdale’s football team, he made the rivalry a little more interesting to watch.
“It was honestly just a joke to get people pumped up to go to the game that night. People wanted to see what the trash talk would amount to,” said Davis.
With so much tension between the two schools, one has to wonder where it all started and what the reason is for this so called rivalry.
“It’s not really a rivalry because we’ve won seven years straight, but I think the tension has existed for so long because they think we think we’re better than them,” said Davis.
Although people may have their different views on both schools, they are both Springdale schools, and they both have football teams who play their heart out every season.
“I was just trying to be funny, not really make them mad. If their feelings are hurt I’m sorry,” said Frasier, who will be graduating this year and playing football for the army in January.“I feel bad because I have friends over there, and some of them are seniors as well and that was there last time playing ever,”
With both senior boys leaving, one could only wonder what’s to come for both of the schools when they play against each other the seasons to come.
“I want us to still be beating them and keeping the tradition alive,” said Frasier