Fear and respect are two different words. And if you equate the two, not sure you are paying Burg a compliment by saying we no longer fear (ie respect) them.
That said, maybe this is an age thing. I see “fear” used a lot on this site as in “we don’t fear them” or “everyone fears us.” That’s stuff I never heard growing up when it came to high school sports. Again, we are talking high school sports, not Mike Tyson in the ring. At the high school level, the only thing we feared was the wrath of coach Miller.
Now there was an exception to this. Cheerleaders would create posters using words like fear, etc. So I guess I stand corrected. Cheerleaders spoke like that. LOL!!
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How about intimidating? That work for you? Semantics at this point. I think you get the point.
I can't help what you did or didn't experience in high school, and as you and everyone knows, times change.
You have heard "they should fear us", so you do know the meaning of the terminology. Again, this was meant to be a term of endearment but it has turned into a debate of sport dialogue.
I can assure you when we play Cin. Moeller, our head football coach always says he has to coach the fear out of his team first. It's a pretty normal use of the word for intimidating. I'll do my best to better articulate next time ol timer
