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New rivalry? Woodland Park vandalizes school
“Watch out, here we come” – It’s Woodland Park that needs to prepare for the flood of Mustangs in their stands at tonight’s game.
September 5, 2014
The rivalry between Manitou and Woodland Park is growing. Earlier this morning, Friday, September 5th, it was discovered that the ostentatious hoodlums from Woodland had defaced our cafeteria’s windows with unimaginative and redundant taunts in an attempt to assert their masculinity and dominance in wake of tonight’s football matchup.
Though quickly removed, the graffiti left many of Manitou’s more spirited students and sports enthusiasts in a rage-driven ferment, likely boosting the level of competition at tonight’s game, and inspiring many Manitou students to make the short trip up to Woodland to support our players. Considering that last year Manitou made it to state semifinals, and Woodland Park is far from a 4A football powerhouse, tonight’s game, if nothing else, should prove to be interesting.
Regardless of whether or not Woodland Park wins tonight’s game, one fact remains: the swag-revering cretins that committed this vandalism are no less prestigious or accomplished because of their juvenile antics. If anything, their audacious crime is an exhibition of their inability to think innovatively. A rivalry between your school and mine? We should do something crazy, like write taunts on their cafeteria windows, implying that they’re going to lose. Even better, we’ll use statements that say the same thing over and over again, in increasingly barbaric and grammatically insufficient manners. That’ll show them. They’ll be shaking in their boots. This hasn’t ever been done before. We’re cool. Swag.
Be sure to come support our football team tonight at Woodland. The more screaming students we can get in their stands, the better.
Christina • Oct 16, 2014 at 3:11 pm
I would like to point out that “some paint on the window” and signs and doors needed to be cleaned up by somebody. This took A LOT of extra time and effort to clean up by the custodial staff and others. To me this was very destructive to our property that the Building & Grounds crew work very hard to maintain. Next time you see one of them say thank you!
Josh • Sep 15, 2014 at 11:01 am
You would at least think they would spell panthers right. It is their own team.
Josh • Sep 15, 2014 at 11:02 am
Never mind I see the h now sorry
Leland • Sep 8, 2014 at 9:21 pm
Dear above critics,
Brandon is absolutly on point here. The subject of the editorial is not the definition of vandalism, but rather Woodland’s “unimaginative” and juvenile attempt to start a non-existent rivalry with a small school because they are not competitive in 4A. As he was saying, this rather middle-school act was unwarranted as we continually beat them in volleyball, soccer, and as proven that night – football.
This is an editorial where he gets the opportunity to speak his mind. Please don’t attack him for trying to stir up some school spirit as we crush the Woodland Park Pansies yet again.
Marcus • Sep 7, 2014 at 9:17 pm
Good article. All of the comments below exhibit the same attitude that those who vandalized the school had. Vandalism is vandalism. Here’s an idea… When you want to be competitive and show your spirit, why not show it on the field? Rather than “talking” about how its going to happen (and “talking” is obviously all woodland park has proven to since they existed). Considering this is the first time Manitou has stooped to the level of woodland park to compete, I don’t believe the actions taken were very necessary. Not to mention the outcome of the game. As an attendee of both schools… Its safe to say that this is pretty typical of Woodland Park.
Amy • Sep 7, 2014 at 8:47 am
This is vandalism? It doesn’t say they broke or stole anything, it looks like some paint on windows. This looks like some kids trying to have a little fun and the media making it something it’s not. Their is nothing wrong with some good rivalry. I was at the game and it was good to see so many people come out, on both sides of the field. That’s what HS stadiums are supposed to look like.
Brandon • Sep 7, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Vandalism’s definition includes the unwarranted defacing of another’s property, therefore ‘some paint on windows’ put in place without the permission of MSHS administrators counts as vandalism.
Ash • Sep 6, 2014 at 5:17 pm
“unimaginative and redundant taunts”
If they didn’t write curse words you have no place saying that. I hope your editor checks your work because this is ridiculously over-dramatized.
Brandon • Sep 7, 2014 at 5:28 pm
If you take notice, this article is categorized as an editorial, enabling my unrestricted bias and opinion along with my debatably inflammatory remarks. In any case, I’m not sure what exactly there is to find incredibly offensive here; I said that their remarks were unoriginal and that they repeated the same idea several times over, which I don’t think is something that could be argued. One could sum up their remarks in ‘come at me bro’ and make the same impact. Furthermore, I would urge you to look into the ‘sensationalist’ style of journalism before making complaints of unjust dramatics.