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We got massacred by USC today. The final score was 66-19. It's only too fitting that this took place in a stadium called the Coliseum. I'm not a huge football fan, but it was just painful to watch a group of people get so royally crushed. Call me unspirited, but part of me took a little bit of pleasure in seeing the UCLA football guys get crushed. Score one for anyone that these macho assholes have ever pushed around.
Some USC fan was wearing a shirt that said UCLGay (so what if 30% of our campus is queer...only we get to call it that). A couple of people in my section asked him what was wrong with being gay. When his response was "UCLA is gay!" the entire section started chanting "Ho-Mo-Phob-ic!" over and over. You could tell the guy was overwhelmed and that no one had ever called him on his stupid shirt. He and his wife beat a hasty retreat. Score one for all the queer people in the stands who got to sit back and actually let their allies handle a homophobic turd. I say add one more on since the chanting was initiated by a straight white guy.
I got to ride to the game and back with the UCLA marching band. They're great! It's too bad the athletic department has abandoned all responsibility for them. They're really hurting. Banged up instruments, threadbare uniforms. They have to drive around the country whereas other bands for teams of equal caliber can fly. USC's band is at least double the size as well. It's funny. Millions of dollars are dumped into the football program at ucla, yet the band was the only point of redepmtion in UCLA's sorry repetoire today. Let's take a moment for band kids past and present everywhere.
Go, Band Kid, Go!
Some USC fan was wearing a shirt that said UCLGay (so what if 30% of our campus is queer...only we get to call it that). A couple of people in my section asked him what was wrong with being gay. When his response was "UCLA is gay!" the entire section started chanting "Ho-Mo-Phob-ic!" over and over. You could tell the guy was overwhelmed and that no one had ever called him on his stupid shirt. He and his wife beat a hasty retreat. Score one for all the queer people in the stands who got to sit back and actually let their allies handle a homophobic turd. I say add one more on since the chanting was initiated by a straight white guy.
I got to ride to the game and back with the UCLA marching band. They're great! It's too bad the athletic department has abandoned all responsibility for them. They're really hurting. Banged up instruments, threadbare uniforms. They have to drive around the country whereas other bands for teams of equal caliber can fly. USC's band is at least double the size as well. It's funny. Millions of dollars are dumped into the football program at ucla, yet the band was the only point of redepmtion in UCLA's sorry repetoire today. Let's take a moment for band kids past and present everywhere.
Go, Band Kid, Go!