When the third week of the football season rolls around every year, everyone at my high school knew what that meant for our team. The third week had another meaning for us more than most of the other high schools in Texas because it was the week of “The 377 Rivalry.” The 377 meaning in our rivalry name is the stretch of road between our schools known as US Highway 377. In the recent years leading up to this one we had been historically the best team in Aubrey High School history, as we were the most winningest team in our years on varsity for our school. Our rivals, the Pilot Point Bearcats, in our minds were almost referred to as evil, because even though there is only eight to ten miles between us that we couldn’t be more different than them. …show more content…
The bus ride had felt like the longest one I had ever been on. We all just sat in complete silence the whole way there. Once we had arrived all the rumors that had been spread had not even been anything close to true. There wasn’t a police escort and there were not dead birds staked to the side of the road. We had just heard the screech of the breaks when we had pulled into the parking lot of the field in Pilot Point. At this point I had a pretty good feeling about a nice smooth victory coming into the future. By this time, we had piled off the bus and followed a Pilot Point coach as he took us around to our locker room we would be staying in. He stopped us at this old run down looking shack that shouldn’t even legally be considered a locker room. The front of it had a one car sized garage door on the front, while on the inside there was no A/C and just a couple of old rundown benches around the room. No A/C in the heat of September in Texas should be a crime. Our facilities compared to theirs is leaps and bounds better than them. All our locker rooms are indoors and air conditioned, we had a new big weight room, and unlike them we had a nice turf field. While they have had the same old grass field for almost 50 years and all their locker rooms were run down little shacks. They wear old torn up black uniforms and we wear brand new sleek white uniforms. It was almost like we were made to be complete opposites to each