Justin's Weekly Brain Seepage: Week Eight

“C’mon (insert QB’s name here), get rid of the ball!!! What are you doing??!!!! You gotta be smarter than that!!!”

My sentiments exactly. You gotta be smarter than that.

See, these players had to excel in high school and work hard on and off the field. They had to come to college to compete with very talented guys to win a role on the team. Then after all that hard work and sacrifice, they finally get their shot on the field, and they have to listen to some moron whose football IQ happens to mirror his shoe size tell them how to play the game.

They work hard to get where they are, but all you have to do to criticize them is pay for a ticket or flip on the television.

That’s not really fair.

These same fans think football should operate like a game of Xbox. Like, let’s say your team is a three-and-a-half point favorite and they win by twice that margin, but there’s Mr. Loudmouth lamenting the fact that his team didn’t win by four touchdowns.

There should be fan tryouts or something or maybe a written test. Unless you show that you can be trusted to not say something stupid or falsely lay the blame where it doesn’t belong during a game, you have to be quiet and let the grown-ups talk.

In football terms, you get to ride the pine. You can still watch the game, but you no longer are an active participant in it. Let’s face it, you can’t be trusted, and all you do is pollute the air with your lack of knowledge. So you’ll have to be muzzled.

The majority of LSU fans know their football, but it never fails when at the game, I sit in front of the loudest guy in the stadium who fills the air with his football ignorance. I usually say nothing.

But let’s change that. From now on, when someone says something stupid, let’s vow to correct them. You’re doing them a favor in the long run, and most reasonable fans will thank you for doing so. This is not recommended if everyone in your section is an idiot.

We must stop the proliferation of football idiocy. Heck, this guy could be teaching his children his ways, and then my kids will grow up and have to go to games and listen to his kids spew misdirected venom.

It’s a vicious cycle. But we can break it. In the next game you watch with someone who knows less than they let on, point out that they are wrong, won’t you? You could be doing the college football world a great service. 

This has been a public service announcement furnished by the “Coalition for better fans.”

And another thing...

I know that song “Kerkraft 400” by Zombie Nation is popular in places like Penn State and such (I actually like PSU btw and respect the "White Out"). In a way I expect that, because up north you get more of a pro sports environment.

But in the beginning of the season I remember thinking, “no self respecting SEC team would have this soccer stuff blaring in their stadium.”

Then a week later I heard it at Florida (for the Miami game I think).

Then this past weekend, I heard it at South Carolina for the LSU game.

I just shook my head.

How awful. When did college football games become no better than NBA TV timeouts???

I know canned music is going to happen nowadays (LSU plays piped-in music leading up to kickoff before the band gets seated again), but a song from a German techno band?? Is that really what the kids are listening to these days????

I weep for the future.

Maybe I’m getting too old.

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