I've learned in life, if you don't want to pick a fight with people, don't write about religion, politics or football. Well I'm choosing to step off into the last one. I hope your still my friend in the end.
I love watching football. Since Colby has gotten older, we watch more football games than cartoons and I'm just fine with that. I'm not the girl who has a ton of facebook posts on game day (unless it is a cute picture of me actually at a game) and I'm not the girl who plans her whole day around what time the game comes on. I can't tell you names of players or any stats they may have. I remember numbers and what their hair looks like coming out of their helmet. I analyze their uniforms and think I could have designed them so much better.
On a side note, anyone else think the Steelers look like a bunch of bumblebees this year?!? Anywho....
Things this southern belle just doesn't get about one of the Souths most treasured sports:
1- Oh how your gonna hate me for this one. I don't understand why if you were born in Mississippi, raised in Mississippi, attended college (or didn't at all) in Mississippi, cheer for a team that is NOT from your home state. It blows my mind. We have a ton of great schools in our state, that by the way are doing a great job this year, that you could cheer on. What happened to taking pride in where you live? Mississippi already gets a bad wrap on education, obesity, welfare and unemployment....one of the good things we have going for us is we breed some AWESOME football players. My child has a fascination for LSU. Why? Because he likes the color purple and because his best friend told him too. This I can understand. Adults, not so much. But I will give you this one. Say you just like that other states team. In the words of Taylor Swift, Why ya gotta be so mean? When your team plays a team that represents the state you actually live in, can't we all just get along?!? I know Mississippi folks are just as bad at this.
2- Ok so say you root for a Mississippi team. Problem is they are playing another team from our great state. The way I see it, whether your team won or lost, Mississippi had a good day. I imagine the day of the Egg Bowl there will be some serious FB trash talking going on. Can't we all just get along, root for your team but be a gracious winner/loser in the end? No need for all the trash talking. What is generally entertaining for me to watch is all the PRE game trash talking that goes on, then the violently loud crickets you hear when your team didn't win.
3- Whether your attending a game or watching from the comfort of your couch, why is it necessary to hollar instructions to the coach or players? Newsflash, they can't hear you. When I attend USM games, the guy behind me has something to say about EVERY play. It's like he thinks there is a guy on the sidelines with a clipboard taking all his "notes and criticism" and relaying it to the coach. He will even follow up his rant sometimes with "I told you that wasn't gonna work coach". Makes me think of Van Wilder saying, let me write that down.
4- Why does football bring out the worst potty mouths in people? Guy from point #3 likes to use colorful words when dictating his notes to the coach. Colby loves to turn around, give him the stink eye and say He needs him some Jesus. Your kids are watching you. Other people's kids are watching you. Show them how to be angry without sinning. Jesus threw a table over once, but he had a very good reason too. I don't think a fumble or loss of yardage warrants a bunch of @!^#~¥^ nonsense.
5- Why is everything related to football so expensive, from the mere ticket to get in the game, to the $3 bag of .50 M&M's, to the $70 KIDS jersey!?! It's expensive to be a fan of football, much less a die hard fan. We entertained the idea of going to the Egg Bowl until I went to buy tickets. I could take my family to the Bahamas for a week for what it would cost us to sit in the freezing weather to watch that game. Give me a beach chair please!
So I've offended 95% of you by now I'm sure, but I had to get that one off my chest. I'm not a bandwagon fan, just merely a fan of whoever is left that is closest to home. I will yell Hotty Toddy, Hail State, To the Top all day long. I want to teach Colby to take pride in where he is from and to never be ashamed of being from Mississippi. I may be fighting a losing battle, and I must say I do look good in purple too, but I just want to see the severe hate dialed down a notch..... Or ten.
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