Originally Posted by
JackEFann
Thanks for asking. Here's the point on "the biggest win in Jacks' program history" crapola from earlier in this string...
It's a long history, and whether you believe it or not, Bisonville is not currently nor has it ever been at the center of our football universe in Southern Dakota... ... ... The whole attitude the Jacks are taking now is that it was a big road win over a great team that we have struggled lately to beat, but that it was just one win and many more are necessary to get where we want to be. Which is what good teams and mature fan bases do. You guys just needed a little reality check. We delivered it.
I certainly respect what you have accomplished - it's been an incredible run, and you may indeed continue it this year, and that is a part of your history that - pardon for my presumption - you ought to be mighty proud of. But if you were really honest about it, you'd understand that to the great big world outside Bisonville some - not all - posters here seem immune to the idea that you're not entitled for it to last forever, and you are certainly not entitled to declare for us what our biggest wins ever are.
While unprecedented and great (enough genuflecting?), this run has given some in your fan base the reputation that your crapola can never stink. And that respecting opponents is somehow a denial of your own greatness.
I wasn't at the game but know a Jacks fan who was, and he said he sat behing the singly most obnoxious person he had ever met, in any venue, anyplace. He said he was heartened by good Bison fans around him who apologized as he was leaving the game. That's mutual respect and the sign of a respectful rivalry, and the fact that Bison fans did it after a tough loss is mighty impressive.
As for the era of Bison as laughingstock, I can't believe that I have to deliver a history lesson here, but how about this? You guys won a total of 30 games over the entire Truman, Eisehnower and Kennedy administrations - 30 games in 15 years, with three winless seasons thrown in the midst, topped by the 0-10 stinker in 1962 in which, you lost consecutively to Minnesota-Moorhead and Concordia-Moorhead.
I know, I know, ancient history, Division II, blah-blah, and spew that with impunity... I expect it from some of your colleagues here....
But before your fellow Bisonville residents start pronouncing about our greatest wins, remind them these things come and go, and the axis of our world does not hinge on 100 yards in Fargo....
We just took a notch off your swagger with one game, is all. Live with it. Peace.