[EKUAlum05]

Its not just the blowout talk (which i noticed you left a few Belfry quotes out) Its the

"we're gonna hit Bourbon in the mouth like never before"

"Speed means nothing when your laying on your back looking for the liscence plate of the truck that just ran over ya"

"What are they gonna do when Belfry starts poppin pads"

"I'm sure Mr. hatfield will introduce himself to #33 while he's running through him"

"If Bourbon gets frustrated, this game could get chippy, and we usually don't start fights, but we will finish them"

"Our DT is faster than your fastest guy""

Now those are paraphrases, I didn't feel like quoting all of those, but...

Does that sound like an underdog talking?

If I didn't know any better I'd think we were playing the steal curtain Friday night

What did you expect to find on a text based message board? It's not like people are chirping without provocation... it's banter.. it's what you get on a message board. If you simply want to hear coach speak then read a newspaper.

It is very obvious to me from reading back:
1) There are probably 20X-25X more Belfry posters on this site or posting in this thread... obviously frequency is transitive of quantity. There will certainly be more trash talk in volume based on having more people to post it.

2) The vast percentage of predictions on the actual game by Bourbon and Belfry fans are expecting a very close game

3) Both teams have a couple fans who are bound and determined to somehow paint their team as being disrespected (" We are playing Alabama", all the speed talk, "maybe we should just forfeit" , eluding to Twitter comments by teenagers and pictures etc) when in actuality the flow of respect and subsequent posturing has been essentially the same

At the end of the day the underdog/disrespect card is nothing more than a way for fans to claim their own personal victory if their team wins... and for the players who may read the site...it gives them something to talk about with their buddies 10 years down the road as they reminisce about how "Bourbon said they had 8 guys faster than anyone on Belfry and we shut them down" or "Belfry said they were going to bash our brains in and we showed them". The Bourbon locker room will say that Belfry thinks they don't belong and that they are soft and that they are going to blow them out...the Belfry locker room will say how Bourbon thinks they are going to score 50 on them and be running wind sprints all game on their TD runs and that they are going to blow them out... when it is all said and done all that really matters is who is more prepared and who executes.