From this corner of the world and sight unseen, I m going to defend the over-rated cheer response by Kankakee fans.To be fair I assumed student section.
If not that’s lame.
They obviously have a great team, won all games before today and based on the halftime score gave it their all and were in the game into the second half before the likely state champs pulled away to win by four scores.
Here’s the thing. You root for your kids forever and then Week 12 comes up and you have a long road trip to play a two-loss team when you have no losses.
And of course, every Kankakee fan goes into the game knowing their favorite team is an enormous underdog and isn’t going to win.
Then you watch the first 27-28 minutes and your heart is racing and full of hope only to have the inevitable occur and the season come to an end by a team that by all rights could be a legit contender for the class 7a title and would have been the favorite in 5a but moved up to 6a intentionally to dominate against better competition.
In short, I m sure Kankakee fans were frustrated by an opponent that is that good on the field.
And when the super power fans decided legitimately to tweet the visitors with a late-game cheer, the frustrated Kankakee fans responded with a cheer you actually hear all the time at basketball games when the favored team with the star player is about to win but maybe the star player didn’t play an A level game.
Oooooover-raaated.
I m guessing that the Flyers were not perfect today but still good enough for a dominant win and the Kankakee fans’ cheer response is in effect saying that you won as expected but you didn’t look awesome like Loyola or Mt. Carmel always does.( side note: I m referring to our Mt. Carmel and not the Mt. Carmel that is steamrolling everybody in a small class downstate.)