Let me admit right
off to wearing shorts and a t-shirt yesterday, this despite a noontime
temperature of 11 degrees at the Chicago lake front with a wind chill of minus
four. Of course, I was inside on my
exercycle. The clown on TV with his
shirt off was at Soldier Field to watch the Bears lose to the Packers, 30-27.
By and large,
baseball fans don’t do stupid on a level with football fans. The one thing they/we are guilty is that
shirt thing. It’s definitely a young,
white-guy tendency done for reasons only a psychiatrist would understand. Both types of fans will wear uniform jerseys,
but that’s where it stops for baseball types.
The crazies I saw yesterday felt a need to take it a whole lot further.
First were people
who thought a wedge of yellow-colored foam perched atop their head is a
testament of the truest devotion to team and state. Then there were the folks who couldn’t stop
at painting their faces in Bear blue and orange. No, they also had to put a bear’s head where
the foam wedge would otherwise go.
The website for
the Washington Redskins sells a hog nose as the “perfect addition to your
Redskins wardrobe!” This is for fans who
need to connect to a long-ago offensive line known as the Hogs. And Cleveland Browns’ fans—masochists that
they are—can order their Dawg Pound clothing.
Or they can all just dress up in hog or dog costume because….Honestly, I
don’t know why. How long until Opening Day?
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