Buckeye Fans Are Ruining Football

It's a sport I've loved for years and it's even played a significant role in me living where I do now (and to some degree who I am), but these people really try my patience. There was a game on Saturday night, and I went to a party some friends were having. Going into the situation I already knew I'd care the least of anyone there about the outcome of the game. That's fine. What I wasn't prepared for was the sorry excuse for a human being who was also there.

He embodies everything that could be wrong about sports. Sure, there were the general "I hate the other team" type of comments that I was expecting from the typical Buckeye fan, but he took his "game" to the next level. He started off by making fun of the other team's quarterback for having saved a neighbor who had a seizure or some such. He complained that since some old guy had been saved it would cost him money (through taxes) to care for the guy, and he commented that the quarterback was an idiot for having helped somebody out. Classy. After the game was well in hand, he kept cheering for a severe injury to befall any and all members of the other team. Extra Classy. He is apparently also a high school football coach, a position that gives you a chance to shape young minds while teaching positive qualities like teamwork. If you've read this far, you already know that's not what he's chosen to do. He talked for longer than I cared to listen about how he teaches his kids from the time they're freshmen to play dirty. Double Classy with Cheese. There were other fine examples, but for the sake of space and my sanity, I'll stop now.

What really gets me though is that he has an infant son. I would be absolutely shocked if that kid wasn't raised to be the same brand of asshole as his father. I suppose that the bigger problem is that he's just the cherry on top of the poor-sportsmanship sundae of Columbus. Why do these people try so hard to ruin a game I enjoy so much?