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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do GP families not like the tradition of shaking hands after a game? Isn't that what every other school in the nation does? [/quote]

You misunderstand.

Of course the Prep players shake hands after the games. The coaches line them up and they do it as a matter of course.

You may be confusing this with an attempt to explain the decades old antipathy that exists between the players, alums, families, etc of the two schools.

An outsider might wonder what all the fuss is about and think it all might be smoothed over. There have been a few lame and highly unproductive attempts.

The bitter athletic rivalry and the sometimes desperate struggles on the field and on the court spill over to their overall relationship. Based on my experience these hard feelings are especially acute on the Prep side. It sometimes appears that the Landon students are a little bit confused by the reaction. They are, afterall, doing what they do. They want to win badly and when the game is over the reasoning that there is a wall between the game and the rest of it. That's not the way it works with the GP gang.

If you want to see the definition of "uncomfortable", watch Landon students watching a game on the GP campus. When they aren't in the stands, they stand together in tight knots very much like penguins. They know they are in :hostile" territory.[/quote]

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