An article in the LSU newspaper "The Daily Reveille" just makes me really wonder how wussified this world will finally become one day. I know wussification is coming everywhere, but I'm crestfallen to find out it has come to the LSU football game experience.
The whole article is really depressing. It seems that the LSU Tiger Band was forced to drop their signature "Oh-Wee-Oh" chant after my beloved Tigers score because the student section chimed in at the end with the very, very offensive tag-line, "you suck" during the game against those worthless, stinkin' South Carolina Gamecocks and their stupid coach Steve Spurrier. Supposedly this offended some pee-pants band officials at LSU, as they assumed it was a jab aimed at the South Carolina mascot, "Cocky." Here's a picture of old Cocky...that is one ugly mascot.
Not to mention that the game was at South Carolina. Heck, if those LSU student fans want to pick a fight on somebody else's home turf where they're outnumbered, let 'em do it! It's part of the college experience that might keep you from making such mistakes later on in life.(Of course it wouldn't have mattered if a fight broke out between 400 LSU students and the whole stadium...it was just miserable South Carolina after all...it woulda been kinda like a fight between a Tiger and a chicken).
Heck, when I was in high school we would sit in the stands at basketball games and scream in unison "Go to Hell Airline, go to Hell!!!!" or "Go to Hell Parkway, go to Hell!!!!"...or whatever miserable school we were playing that night. That was 30 plus years ago, and really a lot more offensive than "you suck." I can't say I am proud of it now that I wished eternal damnation and torture on those worthless opponents of ours...but c'mon!
They're kids! Part of the fan experience in sports, and most especially at LSU is to work up a deep enough hatred for your opponent that you can use potty-mouth words against 'em.
The whole ignorant controversy is just that...ignorant. And too PC. And wuss. And ignorant!
Oh good lord. At State, the kids scream "SUCKS!" after every single opposing player is introduced at every single basketball game. While it is extremely annoying to me (to the point of refusing to go to a basketball game) they're kids. They are stupid because they are kids. If the college professors weren't so stupid, maybe those kids would have a better sportsmanlike demeanor.
ReplyDeleteBetter clear them sissies up at Geaux Tigers, Andy, or pretty soon you are going to have to wear a dress and carry a parasol to the games if you want to get in.
I know it TD. It's ridiculous, and really gave me a case of the reds.
ReplyDeleteI'm still shaking my head in disbelief. I started to go to Lane Bryant today to get fitted for a purple & gold MuuMuu after I read that.
Maybe that's why we went 7-5 & have to play stinkin' Georgia Tech in the Chicken Bowl...or something like that. DEPRESSING!