Posted on 12/22/2007 7:21:49 AM PST by 3AngelaD
I went to my last professional football game this month. My son and I braved frigid, remote FedEx Field to see our beloved Chicago Bears humiliated 24-16 by the struggling Washington Redskins. It wasn't the depth of our despair that will keep us away from football stadiums but the depravity of the fans...depravity is a strong word. But what better describes drunken adult men, egged on by other grown beer-swillers, belly-shouting the most spectacular obscenities imaginable as they stand next to a 13-year-old boy? Every play was a competition to produce a more vile insult or a different suggestion about which body part might be stuffed up which orifice. When the Redskins scored their first touchdown, four young women...turned around and did a little stripper's dance that made my son blush as I cringed...
The looming aggression and violence was more troubling than the foul language and drunken boorishness. Some of the men near us were enraged and barely in control of themselves. When Bears quarterback Rex Grossman went down with a knee injury, two obese drunks behind us bellowed that they hoped the [expletive] [expletive] would never walk again....
I had already pointed out to these gentlemen that there were kids around. They glared at me, furious. It was obvious to me that if I pursued it, there would be a fight or a screaming match....
There simply was no code of conduct, no social superego, that discouraged this behavior, even around children. Worse, some people were there precisely to get drunk, angry, loud and vile.... Professional football to a large degree is a gigantic beer-delivery mechanism. The club level of FedEx Field is set up to ingest beer. To watch football on television, you have to endure the same idiotic beer ads again and again....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I’m a little worried about your son. You seem to want to feminize him.
That’s right. Because masculinity is first and foremost about boorish obscenity.
Nicely said
I get the same feeling as you when I flip through the channels on television. Our society has no class anymore.
These may not be gentlemen, but football is not a gentleman's game, is it? Perhaps he should take his lad to some equestrian events.
I am woried about your attitude that foul mouthed drunken fans make a man!
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/18/utility/main951739.shtml
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Before that, he was a producer for the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” in Washington (1993-99), where he focused on political and investigative reporting and produced the broadcast’s “Reality Check” segments with correspondent Eric Engberg. Meyer also served as Rather’s anchor producer on three election night broadcasts, among other major political events.
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C'mon. You know how we guys are, right? Admit your failings. It will free you.
It was ever thus.
A real man is the strong silent type. Not the type that acts like its his first beer and he got drunk on it.
No thanks to your support of depravity at a sporting event. If thats how you want to act stay home, get as drunk as you can and yell your profanities at the TV!
—”These may not be gentlemen, but football is not a gentleman’s game, is it?”—
You got a point there. Not like they were at the Ballet....
—”First of all, Chicago LOST the Super Bowl to Indianapolis, so they are not “Super Bowl champions”. “—
I think that’s in reference to their 1985 win.
I think it is kind of ironic that one of the most liberal metropolitan area in the country supports a football team with a nickname that some people consider racist.
I went shopping last night and I saw a Washington Redskin cheerleader shopping with her SO. She was pretty, she wore her redskinette jacket with sequin jean. Her hair was fashionably short but her makeup would make a drag queen blush.
” he was a producer for the “CBS Evening News with Dan Rather” in Washington (1993-99), where he focused on political and investigative reporting “
Ah, the irony —
A “do your own thing”, painfully ‘tolerant’ lib is upset that his ‘perfect world’ is coarse and ugly...
Unfortunately, irony is lost on the self-righteous.....
Is the nickname “Cougars” now considered sexist?
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