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Okay, Super Bowl is in half an hour, so I have to get to the point. Here goes. Straight to the point. Look mom, bullet points!!
- Tens of thousands of people go to football games. They dress in colors that don’t look good on anyone. Behavior that fashion mavens everywhere must find polarizing.
- They paint their faces those same awful colors to show team spirit Huh?
- They scream and shout and behave in ways that can only be called, well…
Hundreds of thousands of people flock to football stadiums with the hope that they will cheer their team to victory. If this happens they celebrate like, well crazy people. In defeat, fans show deep disappointment, and sometimes even anger that is real and palpable. All of this from people who just watched. Think about it, fans can celebrate their team victories with pure abandon. These fans did not run, tackle, catch and throw their way to glory. They just watched. Watched and celebrated. For the price of a ticket they can celebrate in almost any way they see fit.
The way I see it. If it’s the fan’s prerogative to celebrate in whatever way he or she chooses, then it is the obligation of the one who is being celebrated to celebrate in whatever way he chooses. Fair is fair. So, Mr. football player. If you want to jump, flip, twist, shout, “dab”, look at stats, smirk or just stoically go back to the sidelines, it’s all good. It’s your party! Do what you want to .
The game is for us to watch, but it doesn’t belong to us. It belongs to those guys. You know, the ones running, jumping, strategizing, hitting and getting hit.
This isn’t your dream. It’s theirs Watch or don’t watch, but don’t presume to judge a player’s reaction to his own success. It’s polarizing.
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