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a friend posted this http://good-ol-don.livejournal.com/160684.html. when i read His post, i had to climb on my soapbox and rant at these oklahoma people. it turned into a much broader rant, and i was encouraged to post that ranting here, as my own 2 cents, so here goes...
there are children starving in other countries. Hell, there are children starving in THIS country. diseases that kill and currently have no known cure. crime rates that make it unsafe for little kids to play outside in most major cities now.... and THIS is what people choose to get up in arms about? college football? give me a fucking break. So your team lost by 1 point. is this the apocalypse? you have your health. you most likely have a good job, or at least one that pays for your fancy car and cable tv and a roof over your head. you most likely could stand to lose a few pounds, or wouldn't die if you didn't eat lunch today. while millions of people in the US and around the world are fighting for life, liberty, and basic needs, you feel priveledged enough to threatened someones life over 1 fucking point? get the fuck over it. while i will defend to the death anyone's right to free speech, i think that right stops at death threats, people. especially over a goddamned football game. doubly especially over a COLLEGE football game. not that i have anything against college sports, either, except for the fact that they are taken far too seriously in my opinion. we groom college sports stars to be professional sports stars, and looking at the records of many of our professionals lately, what does that really say? play college sports so you can learn to hide your drug addiction, become a greedy bastard, and give a bad impression to the youth of America about what being a professional athlete is all about. and seriously, when did we make the tansition from grooming athletes to creating superstars? Sports, ALL sports, whether it's a bunch of rugrats playing kickball on a dirt lot, a group of ladies on the golf course, or a bunch of grown men on a football field, should be about fun, exercise, and just the sheer enjoyment of the game. and i mean this as much for the fan in the stands as i do for the athletes themselves. IT'S A GAME, PEOPLE. how about we get back to treating it like that? what do you say we try and return to the days when little league was a great way to spend a saturday afternoon without fist fights breaking out in the stands because one parent didn't like that someone else's child slid into home and knocked their kid down? what if we went to a football game for once with the sole purpose of enjoying the game for what it is, a game, and not some life-or-death, clash of the titans battle that ends in about 16 different breaking news stories? please? if we tried this for just one week, and channeled the energy we are so obviously wasting on bashing the referees, screaming at fellow fans, and throwing things at the field when we don't like a play... i bet we could solve world hunger. or at least donate that hour or so of misplaced energy to helping in a soup kitchen, reading to a kid in a cancer ward, going through the attic for blankets to donate to a homeless shelter. Get a clue, folks. a lost college football game is NOT the end of the world. maybe, just maybe, if we focus on what really IS important, homelessness, unemployment, hunger, poverty... we can find ways to help other people, so that it's not the end of their world.
there are children starving in other countries. Hell, there are children starving in THIS country. diseases that kill and currently have no known cure. crime rates that make it unsafe for little kids to play outside in most major cities now.... and THIS is what people choose to get up in arms about? college football? give me a fucking break. So your team lost by 1 point. is this the apocalypse? you have your health. you most likely have a good job, or at least one that pays for your fancy car and cable tv and a roof over your head. you most likely could stand to lose a few pounds, or wouldn't die if you didn't eat lunch today. while millions of people in the US and around the world are fighting for life, liberty, and basic needs, you feel priveledged enough to threatened someones life over 1 fucking point? get the fuck over it. while i will defend to the death anyone's right to free speech, i think that right stops at death threats, people. especially over a goddamned football game. doubly especially over a COLLEGE football game. not that i have anything against college sports, either, except for the fact that they are taken far too seriously in my opinion. we groom college sports stars to be professional sports stars, and looking at the records of many of our professionals lately, what does that really say? play college sports so you can learn to hide your drug addiction, become a greedy bastard, and give a bad impression to the youth of America about what being a professional athlete is all about. and seriously, when did we make the tansition from grooming athletes to creating superstars? Sports, ALL sports, whether it's a bunch of rugrats playing kickball on a dirt lot, a group of ladies on the golf course, or a bunch of grown men on a football field, should be about fun, exercise, and just the sheer enjoyment of the game. and i mean this as much for the fan in the stands as i do for the athletes themselves. IT'S A GAME, PEOPLE. how about we get back to treating it like that? what do you say we try and return to the days when little league was a great way to spend a saturday afternoon without fist fights breaking out in the stands because one parent didn't like that someone else's child slid into home and knocked their kid down? what if we went to a football game for once with the sole purpose of enjoying the game for what it is, a game, and not some life-or-death, clash of the titans battle that ends in about 16 different breaking news stories? please? if we tried this for just one week, and channeled the energy we are so obviously wasting on bashing the referees, screaming at fellow fans, and throwing things at the field when we don't like a play... i bet we could solve world hunger. or at least donate that hour or so of misplaced energy to helping in a soup kitchen, reading to a kid in a cancer ward, going through the attic for blankets to donate to a homeless shelter. Get a clue, folks. a lost college football game is NOT the end of the world. maybe, just maybe, if we focus on what really IS important, homelessness, unemployment, hunger, poverty... we can find ways to help other people, so that it's not the end of their world.