stevev@tekchips.UUCP (Steve Vegdahl) (11/13/85)
> I have never been more appalled by a lack of sportsmanship as I was at last > Mondays football game between Denver and San Francisco. If unruly behavior is > permitted to exist in that pigpen called Mile High Stadium, the honor of > proffesional football will be passed on the wayside. What appalls me the most > is that the scum who threw the snowball at the 49er holder is probably bragging > to his friends that he won the game for the Broncos. If not for the abhorent > fan participation, this would have been one of the best games I have seen this > year. I also felt that the official was spineless in not assessing an > unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on the Denver crowd, or at least calling a > replay of the down. California football fans unite! Your teams have been subjected to the deafening crowd noise in Seattle and snowballs in Denver. The fans in these other cities have significantly affected your team's performance, and have caused them to lose some games. Having fans cheering to lift the spirit of their team is part of the game. Having fans directly interfering with the game is not. You fans in California are at a disadvantage. You don't have domed staduims that keep in the crowd noise; you don't have snowballs to throw; yet the NFL officials and powers-that-be seem to be maintaining that this is all part of the "home-field-advantage". What can you do to change their minds? I think the answer is up in the sky. Your teams have been blessed with lots of sunny weather. The major disadvantage of sunny weather is that sometimes the sun gets in a player's eyes. But the sun does not seem to favor the home team. Or does it? I mean, who's to prevent a L.A. Raider football fan sitting in the end-zone from applying a little makeup to her face when the opposing team has the ball on a critical third down. Oh, and did that make-up mirror accidentaly reflect the sun into the opposing QB's eyes? Oh, too bad. It's all a part of the game. And now your team is punting; its a high kick and the opposing player is looking to field the ball. Oh, that crazy mirror just zapped the return-man's eyes with a healthy dose of photons, and he muffed the punt. And your team recovered!! It's all part of "home-field-advantage". Right?!?! Steve Vegdahl Computer Research Lab. Tektronix, Inc. Beaverton, Oregon