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by Kellie Herbert
In every city,
it is necessary to support your sports teams no matter what. Students love cheering on their peers at
their high school sports games, but in some circumstances, students have
friends that live in different towns than their own. Tanner pride is an important factor to Woburn
High, and some students believe that cheering on other towns is controversial.
Many students at Woburn High have
acquired their fair share of friends from both Woburn and surrounding
towns. It is important to always support
your friends no matter that their background may be. Senior Dylan Scott believes that the support
of other sports teams should be more prevalent throughout Woburn.
“I don’t think it [cheering on another
town] matters. It’s just a sporting event. A lot of people have friends in
other towns and usually still root for them. I wouldn’t want to see my friends
fail,” said Scott.
Scott
makes a great point, that a friends’ success should be more important than cheering
for your home team. Senior Courtney Heck
also believes that cheering for another sports team is understandable if one of
your friends is on that team.
“I
think it’s fine to cheer for another team. If you have friends there and their
team is good, why not root for them?” said Heck.
Supporting a friend is one necessity
that everyone possesses. Whether or not
that friend is on another town’s team or on your home team, it is important to
promote your friend’s success. Some
Woburn High students, though, believe that Tanner pride is the most important
duty as a Woburnite. Senior Anthony
Scarpone is one of Woburn High’s most well-known superfans and takes his Woburn
spirit seriously.
“In certain situations, sure it’s
fine to cheer for your friends, but don’t root for the other team, root for
just your friend. As a whole, always root for Woburn,” said Scarpone.
Scarpone’s serious dedication to
Woburn shows his superfan status and knows that Woburn is the only town he
should be cheering for. Senior Erin
Kimmelman, who also has friends in different towns, believes that other towns
should not be cheered for, especially when facing Woburn.
“I have friends in a lot of
different towns, but I would never cheer for them during a soccer match or a
football game if Woburn was playing against them. They wouldn’t cheer for me
either,” said Kimmelman.
Kimmelman and her friends know that
on game day, they are enemies, but off the field, their towns are no different.
School pride is important to them during games.
Senior Gabriella DiFraia, who also has many non-Woburn friends, knows
that in some circumstances it is necessary to support your friends, but in
others, Woburn students should be bleeding black and orange.
“It [cheering for another town] is
not okay. You should be true to your
town and your sport. There are exceptions, like my friend Derek DeCastro from
Burlington went to the Garden for high school hockey, and once Woburn was out
of the running I cheered for him. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have cheered him on,”
said DiFraia.
DiFraia makes it obvious that there
are exceptions when cheering for friends on other teams, but still remembers
that Woburn is her home town and she will support their sports teams before any
other.
Tanner
pride is something that every citizen of Woburn is effected by. When one goes to Woburn High games, it is
evident that the community enjoys cheering on their local sports teams. Whether you have a friend who lives in
another town or not, it is important to always remember where you come from and
to cheer on your home team before any other team. Woburn will forever be defined as a town
painted with perpetual pride, but each and every individual has their own thoughts
on whether or not it is acceptable to cheer for a town that doesn’t bleed black
and orange.
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