Land of Oz

Terrorist Football?

In yet another clear example of collegiate sports gone nuts, there was a news report the other day about people from Michigan attending a football game against Ohio, in Ohio. Fans were told not to drive there in cars with Michigan plates and make sure they didn't display any Michigan clothes, colors or other trappings until they actually entered the stadium! This is just plain nuts. We used to get those types of instructions in the military during the 80s when terrorists like the Red Brigade were kidnapping and killing American GIs in Europe. In our case, it wasn't just Michigan, but the USofA. We weren't supposed to wear anything that might identify us as America military and we were supposed to get civilian passports instead of the military version.

I find it hard to believe that college sports have gotten to point where fans are being told not to visit except in disguise. Do college sports fans really have so little self control that they will attack someone just because they can be identified as an outsider? I guess you have to expect things like this when the players have riots and fights on the field, like the Florida fiasco not too long ago, or too many bench emptying baseball games. The coaches are just as bad (not too long ago, there was game called because of racial taunts by one team against another) And then there's the idiot parents teaching their kids like the recent yokel who jumped a teenage ref for tossing him (or his kid) out of the game. Makes you want to swear off watching college sports and watch something peaceful like hockey.