What the Wildcats Say About George County...

I’ve been involved in a lot of rivalries, but this has to be the friendliest.
Johnny Ainsworth
Greene County Head Football Coach

 

It’s just a good rivalry. We don’t like those guys down the road and they don’t like us.
David Chatham
Greene County Assistant Football Coach

 

I’d rather beat George County than win our homecoming game.
Colby O’Neal
Greene County Football Player

 

Lucedale is rural like we are, but then it has a city atmosphere that we don’t have in Greene County.
Mike Chatham
Greene County Principal

 

The only thing more important than beating George County is the state championship.
Alex Cooper
Greene County Football Player

 

It’s fun to have an enemy.
Timothy Cooper
Greene County Band Member

 

The Leakesville-Lucedale rivalry is the underpinning of today’s rivalry between Greene County and George County.
G.L. Dearman
Former Leakesville High School Football Player

 

The administrators of both schools sit together in the end zone.
Richard Fleming
Superintendent of Greene County Schools

 

Their pep rallies are like two hours long.
Charly Rogers
Greene County Cheerleader

 

They do a lot of trash talking.
Alex Cooper
Greene County Football Player

 

I think their stereotype of us is ‘inbred rednecks.’
David Chatham
Greene County Assistant Football Coach

 

They are more of a prank school.
Lee Hill
Former Greene County Football Player

 

You have families that during that week usually don’t get along; and, depending on how the game goes, may be on the outs the rest of the year until the game rolls around next year.
Frederick McCann
Greene County Assistant Football Coach

 

They think they are “GC what” and we think we are.
Ashley Smith
Greene County Cheerleader

 

They stick their noses up and walk around like they are better than us. We look at them like snobs.
Alex Cooper
Greene County Football Player

 

Even though it’s a heated rivalry, our fans get along really well. We are friends all the time except for one night out of the year.
Richard Fleming
Superintendent of Greene County Schools

 

The football game between George County and Greene County is the biggest event in Greene County.
Kevin Richie
Greene County Football Player

 

George County thinks we are a bunch of inbreds.
Jill Vest
Greene County Cheerleader

 

They call us white trash.
Alex Cooper
Greene County Football Player

 

It’s a friendly rivalry.
G.L. Dearman
Former Leakesville High School Football Player

 

I don’t like George County.
Colby O’Neal
Greene County Football Player

 

 

  

What the Rebels Say About Greene County...

They are like the country hicks. At our pep rallies, people dress up in overalls and have signs that say, ‘I date my sister!’
Lainey Leggett
Former George County Cheerleader

 

They think we are like preps and, supposedly, they dress up like preppie people or snobs on their pep rally day.
Alicia Byrd
Former George County Student Body President

 

The Leakesville-Lucedale game was always a packed house. People would have to stand. It wasn’t nasty, but it was highly competitive. I don’t remember an actual fight every breaking out.
Tony Caldwell
Former George County Football Player

 

We think of them as a bunch of dumb rednecks. They probably think of us as a bunch of thugs and troublemakers. We give them a hard time about being in the sticks.
Ethan Eubanks
George County Football Player

 

Coach Ainsworth is always calling our home. He and my dad are friends.
Rae Ann Jones
Daughter of George County Head Football Coach

 

After every game we meet each other at midfield and shake hands, joke about the game and laugh about different plays.
Chris West
George County Assistant Football Coach

 

Rivalries don’t start with the kids; they start with the parents.
Fred Gill
Former George County Head Football Coach

 

A team might not be very good, but you can throw the records out. The closeness of the communities and the fact that a lot of the people are kin in George and Greene Counties make it the rivalry it is.
Poochie Stringfellow
Former George County Head Football Coach

 

Football week is always fun because we bicker back and forth and challenge each other, but it’s all in fun.
Donnie Howell
Superintendent of George County Schools

 

Everybody thinks people from Greene County are just redneck and backwoods.  I’m sure they say stuff about us. We all know that’s just part of a good rivalry.
Chris West
George County Assistant Football Coach

 

I don’t think these two teams ever hated each other. It’s been a good rivalry from the standpoint of pure sports emotion.
Derrick Scott
Former George County Football Player

 

They just don’t quit. We were up by several touchdowns in the fourth quarter and they just kept coming. They don’t quit.
Ethan Eubanks
George County Football Player

 

My wife told me way back when we came to Lucedale in the ‘60s, ‘I will go anywhere that you go to work except Leakesville. I won’t go to Leakesville.’
Fred Gill
Former George County Head Football Coach

 

Let me just say Greene County is country.
Poochie Stringfellow
Former George County Head Football Coach

 

We are both country folks. We like to say they are more country than we are, but both of us are country.
Al Jones
George County Head Football Coach

 

It has never gotten out of hand. It’s just a good contest and an enjoyable week. When it’s over, everybody shakes hands and we start getting ready for next year. We don’t rub it in if we win, because we know next year it could turn around.
Donnie Howell
Superintendent of George County Schools

 

People say, ‘If you don’t win another game, you better beat Greene County.’
Melody Jones
Wife of George County Head Football Coach

 

Even in two of our double-digit winning seasons, we still got beat by them. That takes some of the shine off the season, even when you go 11-3 or 10-3 and make a run through the playoffs.
Darwin Nelson
George County Assistant Football Coach

 

We would dress out 70. They would dress out 20. All of them would go both ways. It was embarrassing that they would hang with us and always make the games interesting.
Derrick Scott
Former George County Football Player

 

Coach Ainsworth is the king of poor mouthing.
Chris West
George County Assistant Football Coach

 

Never in my recollection has anything really gotten out of hand. There has never been a fight.
Derrick Scott
Former George County Football Player

 

When Coach Ainsworth came, they got to be good and got good in a hurry. All of a sudden, they started beating us and beat us four times straight.
Al Jones
George County Head Football Coach

 

They are hillbillies.
Ryan Scott
Former George County Football Player

 

It’s probably one of the friendliest rivalries going.
Paul Wallace
George County Principal

 

Coach Ainsworth is old school football and he is gonna try to beat you on the ground. His teams are physical. Sometimes you know what’s coming, but you still can’t stop them.
Chris West
George County Assistant Football Coach

 

It’s a friendly rivalry where the winner wins with pride and the loser loses with pride.
Fred Gill
Former George County Head Football Coach

 

If there is one game we don’t want to lose, it’s to Greene County.
Donnie Howell
Superintendent of George County Schools

 

Greene County is the enemy you don’t really hate.
Derrick Scott
Former George County Football Player

 

  

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