i did xc for my school, and soccer out of school (but i'm a keeper so not as much running, instead shear panic)
football was always sort of the glory sport, they played friday nights under the lights and everyone would go and they got most of the funding while my xc team ran in front of 4 coaches with uniforms from before we were born. So we of course were not highly respected by them until one day their coach got pissed at them after he got reports of them harassing xc runners and other athletes in the locker room. So he made them run our 5k course with us. While we were screwing around, talking, running backwards and shit, most of them had a lot of trouble. Needless to say, we didn't get any more shit from them