FOOTBALL!!!

Thanks be to the Almighty that it's time for Football once again.

And once again, I'm riding the coattails of my most esteemed friend.

Of course I'm not saying anything new here, just something what needs to be said, again and again, with FIERCE conviction. Now, I LOVE football, and I love "acting out" as it were at the games. For someone like me, it's cathartic; it makes me feel like I'm a part of something greater to be able to bring adaptations of my eccentricities to the field. They work for me, people like them (by and large), they don't hurt anyone. I am a fan, and a rabid one at that, going to games as a sense of release, to be a part of the community, to be a part of something far greater than I alone. That aside, on a fundamental level I go for the same reason as everyone else: to enjoy football and enjoy the experience.

Some, however, attend for all the wrong reasons. Meu Amigo (follow the link above) gives an excellent diatribe relating to the antics of some attendees whose substandard decorum infects the experience of those around them. Please read the link, he does a fine job.

Please, when attending games, remember the Golden Rule, that's all I ask. Ridiculing someone because their shirt is a little older than yours (ask the person, there may be a good reason for it!), or because it's a little bit faded, or because someone cheers or supports their team in a manner somewhat different from the manner in which you "support" them, or because he...or she...wears one brand over another, or because they happen to use proper English (or don't use the "F" word every third syllable), or because you assume that, merely due to a physical trait, such as flowing locks of blonde hair, that someone has had one or two or fifteen sexual partners and "calling them out" on that 'fact' is deplorable. Act your age(s), for God's sake!

It's what separates US from THE ANIMALS.