Is this the lamest excuse you have ever heard or what?

[Jamastiene]

Charlotte Catholic coach says Forestview players used racial slurs
09:57 AM EST on Tuesday, November 7, 2006

By LANGSTON WERTZ JR. / The Charlotte Observer

When Charlotte Catholic's boys' soccer team got to Forestview High School in Gastonia on Saturday night for an N.C. 3A playoff game, the Cougars heard something over the public address system they never would've expected:

A 90-second portion of a speech from Adolf Hitler.

"We were warming up," said Catholic coach Gary Hoilett, "and all of us stopped and looked up at the booth. We were just real shocked. It was obviously a Hitler speech. The voice was coming across clearly. Everybody knew."

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"Sometime back, coach Shearer and the team started using `On to victory' as a slogan," Carpenter wrote. "We have a German exchange student on our team. He taught our students to say it in German. Some of our more zealous students sought to capture this slogan in German and to play it on the PA. They copied it from a speech by Hitler but could not just copy the `On to victory' and got too much of the speech."

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http://www.wcnc.com/news/topstories/stories/wcnc-110706-hitler_speech.138215f0.html

They probaby embarrassed the hell out of the German exchange student on top of it all. Horrible.

[sakabatou]

1. Yeah... overzealous.... right....

[petronius]

2. Uh, yeah... Even assuming that it's OK to play a 3 word Hitler quote

over the PA, do they seriously think we'll believe that the students tried to copy the one little slogan but accidentally recorded 90 seconds, instead?

:rofl:

[Jamastiene]

3. They even tried to claim that they couldn't record less than the

90 seconds to get that three word quote. These people must thing we are dumber than shit. Of course, as dumb as many of them probably are, they probably do. :eyes:

[Westegg]

4. Gott in Himmler!

Oops, my bad. Just overzealous.

[cwydro]

5. oh god

sigh...NC again...

[Jamastiene]

6. NC steps in it quite routinely.

I just found this story to be horrible and the comments on the other thread to be hilarious in just how over the top they were. :shrug: I like to share the strange world of NC every once in a while.

[cwydro]

7. I understand

my dear old home state....:hi:

[Hardrada]

8. I recall hearing of some school that had a halftime show

where kids ran out onto the field with WWII flags accompanied my national anthems which sounded interesting except of course they included the Deutschlandlied and someone running out onto the field with the big red,white and black swastika flag!! This of course caused some problems and recriminations. Think the school was in Wisconsin or Illinois.

[NMMNG]

9. Uh yeah,

Asking the German teacher or consulting a dictionary never came to mind. Instead they chose to copy a Hitler speech. :dunce: