ramking2012 here are two posts from 2012. Enjoy.
And we were heavily involved on Rivals during our 04 to 07 title game run and thru your 2007 to 2009 win streak, challenging your weak level of competition, rarely playing up a classification, and in the weak East bracket. The "capital" thing came up once or twice.
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Reidsville faithful, how does that feel?
I mean, really, not only did you prove to yourselves that you cannot honestly and factually claim to be "the football capital of NC", you statistically may not even be worthy of second place.
We do like you guys and we don't mean to disrespect, but it is a proven bogus claim. We keep reminding ourselves that "your politician went and got that for you". And we all know politicians don't tell the truth.
Now, quietly go and have that resolution rescinded as you know you must. Stop living a lie.
We will not publicize that. We will all pretend it never happened.
The records you mentioned above did.
Mule, we have been over this sooo many times now.
If your claim is ONLY regarding titles, even ancient ones, then Princeton University is the "Capital of College Football" with 28.
And most readers of this site don't even know where it is.
Along with that, Reidsville does have something else in common with Princeton. Several recent consecutive decades (1971 thru 2001) where you didn't even sniff a title game.
It is a bogus claim and you guys know it.
Once again, for readers new to this issue, Shelby does not claim to be "the football capital of NC".
That is for others to decide. But we know Reidsville isn't.
And so do they.
Nasram- You were not legitimately state proclaimed. You ran your usual trick play and had your state representative sneak it thru while others were tending to much more important issues. There was no discussion or debate, nor was there time for any for such nonsense. You might as well been going for your local TV station's "team of the week". Even your method of getting the resolution is suspect.
It is not a title for one city to claim as its own. If it is a title bestowed on one by an independent, fair minded, and informed broad based group, then so be it. Most in state government don't have a clue how their local programs stack up, much less can choose "the best". And they owe each other.
And finally, and this seals the deal, Reidsville had the most titles BEFORE Shelby defeated them in the 2005 finals, yet you waited until immediately after you defeated Shelby in the 2007 finals to pursue the claim.
If it was based on the number of titles, why the wait?
Because you knew you could not possibly make the claim with Shelby wearing the crown and having recently beat you. And if Shelby had won again over you in 2007, even with your titles after that, you would have never pursed the bogus resolution. The timing was priceless.
Self-proclaimed Dynasty? Dynasty is a word with a definition; "a family or group that maintains power for several generations". It is not a single decade run like Reidsville or Independence just had. It is for several generations. Reidsville had that from 1930 to 1970. But you can't go 0 for 31 from 1971 to 2001 and have no title game appearances and still qualify as a True Dynasty. Shelby has never had a gap like that. We played in the all-classification, everybody in title game in 1924. The Golden Lions lost the association state title game in 1944 and 1963, but were the Champs in 1947. And our performance in the NFL termed "modern era of football" since 1968 (44 years) is astounding and approached by no other program in the state. See the records at our website and we challenge anyone to prove we do not meet the definition. It is a definition earned, not proclaimed.
Rambbq- we were fine with the discussion until shotgun had to throw in the bogus claim. We don't start this, we end it.
Mule- Nice try. The Golden Lions have appeared in 7 Western Title games (semi-finals) out of the last 9 years, 2003-2011., missing out in 2008 and 2009. The last 2 years, we have led deep into the fourth quarter, only to lose heartbreakers on their fields to the EVENTUAL STATE CHAMPS. Can you say that?
And of course we made four straight trips to the finals 2004 to 2007, winning twice and losing twice. We don't win them all
.we just win more than anyone else.
What you need to wonder about, and this will keep you up at night, is how incredibly close the Golden Lions just came to back to back Title game appearances (and possibly two more titles) IN AN INCREDIBLE SIXTH CONSECUTIVE DECADE!
Game over
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