“Forget it, Jake. It’s Alabama.”
What’s really weird is that Alabama lives, breathes, sleeps and eats FOOTBALL...
https://www.al.com/news/birmingham/2021/09/alabama-high-school-football-game-halted-after-gunfire-erupts-outside-stadium-1-hospitalized.html
I think they’re trying to avoid tense, potentially lethal, situations by dispersing contentious opponents.