TO THE EDITOR:
I’m new to this Carolina football deal, so I need an explanation. If more than 60,000 of you are perfectly content to underperform just as pathetically as the football team, why do you feel justified in complaining about their losses? You, as fans, have a job, and you aren’t doing it.
Ask any of the players, I’m sure they’d say that they’d love to have the whole stadium on their feet for every single snap the opposing offense makes, cheering on the defense, screaming so loudly that the quarterback and the center can’t even hear each other, much less make the correct play call.
That foolish arm flapping thing they do? They aren’t fighting off swarms of yellow jackets, they’re asking for your cheers, just like the video board, which everyone ignores. This is not the ballet, and even though we’re all dressed as if we’re attending some massive baby shower, we don’t have to be polite. Stand up, cheer and make them feel like you care.
Do you see Bama fans relaxing on the sidelines during the games? Not even when they’re winning by 60. Oregon fans sitting down, enjoying the silence? Good luck finding that. Even Clemson fans stand up in a horrifically blinding mass of Tic Tac orange. And there is no way that we, the University of North Carolina, can allow ourselves to be outperformed by Clem Tech. Ever.
Be better. Then maybe the team would have something to play for.
Caitlyn Jones ’17
Chemistry
