Rivalries between high schools can manifest itself in many ways. For example, kidnapped mascots (usually animals but not mandatory) and strategically placed stink bombs hearken back to the Leave it to Beaver good ol' days.
Something that you might not have considered, however: selling T-shirts that depict equine-on-human-on-equine coitus. Which is exactly what some enterprising students at Houston's Memorial High School decided to do in advance of their game against Stratford. That's the entrepreneurial spirit upon which this country was built.
(You can see the offending image here. Shouldn't have to say this but, yeah, it's NSFW.)
The Spring Branch school district, which includes Memorial, issued the following statement (via the Houston Press):
"Spring Branch ISD has learned about a t-shirt with an inappropriate graphic image that surfaced in connection with a recent high school football game. This t-shirt was not approved, condoned or sanctioned by SBISD or Memorial High. Several t-shirts were confiscated at the game, and several students have been questioned so far about them. This type of behavior is not acceptable. SBISD and Memorial High officials continue to investigate the situation. Any individuals found to be responsible will be dealt with appropriately."
So there's that. While we wait for names to be named, a reader with knowledge of the situation helps fill in the, um, backstory:
"The shirt in question is called 'The Underground Shirt.' The Underground Shirt is made every year by a senior boy or group of senior boys. The shirt isn't worn out in public but rather worn to the game under another shirt. Stratford also made their own underground shirts but they just had words on them -- can't remember what they said but they weren't that bad.
The 2009 Memorial Underground Shirt was much more outrageous than in years' past. It was made by a senior boy who isn't a bad guy, just a prankster.
They sold the shirts via a Facebook group but they were also sold inside the school -- very unofficially in the hallways.
The Memorial-Stratford rivalry tends to be pretty heated. This year was no exception.
During the week before the game, Memorial students fed some turkeys Ex-Lax and then let them loose at Stratford. In past years they have used chickens.
The Memorial students also made a Craigslist listing that said to call the Stratford main office if they wanted free diapers. Later, they changed the listing to read that people should drop off free diapers at the Stratford office. No word if clean or dirty diapers were dropped off.
Stratford students retaliated by writing in shoe polish all over the Memorial High School windows and paper banners. With a police escort, no less. The police escort was to make sure that the shoe polishers didn't do actual vandalism that damaged stuff. But the stuff they wrote was supposedly pretty nasty.
They also shoe polished car windows in the Memorial parking lot, along with putting streamers on them.
Memorial proceeded to put the beat down on Stratford, 20-6. This sent Stratford students over the edge. Some of them came to Memorial and spray painted 'FUK MHS' on the brick work at the school. They also used black spray paint on a white Escalade that transported the Memorial drill team.
The Memorial students then retaliated by tying up goats to long tethers that allowed them to roam Stratford's campus. These goats, of course, were fed Ex-Lax.
The End."
The only way this story gets any better is if we find out that Derek Anderson attended Memorial and was the inspiration for one of the horses.
via Feminist Law Professors, SbB, and Deadspin
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I graduated from memorial last year. I was also a football player. Thank you for finally not criticizing us,and telling both side. I can't stand those femenists that are flipping out.