One example of BIRGing that I saw in "Football High" was when the coach was talking about how once the team started winning, everyone knew who they were, and you could see people wearing their apparel, even when they weren't playing. Also the pastor and other people would say "we" when talking about the team. The fans of the Shiloh team would take the team's successes as their own successes in a way. They also talked about how much money they put into the football program, and that a big majority of the guys who go to their high school, are in the football program. It just shows that because the team is doing well, football becomes everyone's lives.
An example of CORFing that I saw would be when they were talking about other teams that they may play, they sort of demonize them in a way by saying that no one was as good as them and they would beat anyone. Also, after Shiloh lost to that #1 team in the nation, Trinity High School, they sort of blamed it on the fact that they had bigger guys and were just physically outmatched.
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