Friday, November 20, 2009

Is this healthy?

I have never been to a professional football game. I have never lived close to a stadium. So this has been an eyeopening experience.
The hotel I have been in all these months overlooks the Football stadium here. And Sundays have become insane. The hotel fills up the day of a game and downtown gets crowded. The people come like it is a holy shrine. They engage in what appear to be almost religious ceremonies. They have pre-event festivities, don special garb, consume vast amounts of special liquids, and generally behave like idiots.
I imagine that this is the type of thing that ticked off Moses when he came down off the mountain.
These people start all their celebrations about 8 hours before each game. and take up all the parking spaces. they have bands playing, big screen TVs, pigs roasting on spits. All for the average game.
So last week was a night game. They started all the tailgating about 8 in the morning for a game that started 12 hours later. They were loud all day. They were loud all afternoon. They were loud all night. OK not all night but at least until midnight. I have never heard such loud people. It was scary and I was driving around during the LA riots.
I must say the behavior has no equal to anything I have ever experienced. This is a devotion. This is a pagan religion.

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