Tough
weekend for the home teams in the NFL—Houston, Cincinnati, Minnesota and
Washington all lost their wildcard games.
The home fans are supposed to be the twelfth man, like at CenturyLink
Field in Seattle, right? Or maybe it’s
just so much noise to gloss over the cost of a playoff ticket.
In
any case, the home team should always lose when fans act like they did in
Cincinnati Saturday night. In the third
quarter of the Steelers-Bengals game, injured Pittsburgh quarterback Ben
Roethlisberger was carted off the field to the accompaniment of boos and
garbage tossed his way. But Karma’s a bitch,
as they say, as Bengals’ fans discovered when their players matched them for
bad behavior. Two personal-foul
penalties late in the game set up the Steelers’ winning field goal.
If
only the clowns were confined to Cincinnati; alas, they’re everywhere, including
Chicago. We don’t throw stuff as much as
chant, with B******t! the odds-on favorite.
And, yes, White Sox fans are as likely to do it as anyone else. You don’t have to be nice to opposing
players, and, heaven knows I did my share of catcalling when I enjoyed seats
just four rows from the field at Comiskey Park.
But in the end, it’s just a game that reflects back on us.
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