By now most people have already forgotten about what happened last week between the Manteca High School Buffaloes and the East Union Lancers prior to what has become a blood feud between the town two oldest high schools. But since this column only runs on Fridays, it’s the first real chance that I’ve had to point some things out that I feel are missing from the conversations that I saw unfolding on social media over the course of the last week. Allow me to summarize what happened, and the ensuing fallout, briefly.The captains for the Buffaloes opted not to shake the hands of their opponents before the game, a photographer for this newspaper was there to capture what transpired on video, and local social media commenters lost their collective minds over what they saw as poor sportsmanship of the highest order.The chatter was so severe that the Manteca High program had to tweet out a distancing apology that confirmed what I suspected when I first saw the video – that the coaching staff, who took the brunt of the beating on Facebook for not controlling their players, knew nothing about the move prior to it happening.
The non-handshake heard round the 209
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