Two letters to the editor do not constitute outrage

Kill me if I’m ever so compelled to write down right into a publication — as an alternative of simply leaking that sludge onto social media — to tsk-tsk the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs for drinking during a fucking Super Bowl parade. As somebody who’s edited uncut letters to the editor earlier than, nobody is extra self-righteous than the letter author. (Perhaps a newspaper columnist, however the op-ed part isn’t for weak takes.)

That’s why after I noticed that Fox Information’s story about “Chiefs’ fans blasting their own team” was only a hyperlink to the Kansas City Star’s Thursday letters to the editor page, I needed to roll my eyes. Even now, I’m unsure how I’m typing this with my irises pointed on the sky.

Consider the kids

Each contributors cited the unfavorable affect the gamers’ habits may have on KC-area youth. Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce are position fashions and may behave accordingly, blah, blah, blah. So, what, pray inform, would you’ve gotten them do? Sneak under deck and shotgun beers like some skeevy coke heads?

You recognize what that show instructed youngsters? It instructed them that should you work extraordinarily exhausting to perform one thing, and also you truly do it, you must get to have a good time. That’s the entire level of commencement events.

I’m not saying blackout to the purpose that you just want a wheelchair to get home, or your abdomen pumped. Nonetheless, should you’re going to do this, wouldn’t one of the simplest ways to go about or not it’s with as a lot supervision as attainable? (I’ll say this on blacking out: It’s much more enjoyable to recollect having time on the celebration than your pals telling you the way a lot enjoyable you had.)

If you happen to win a Tremendous Bowl, regardless of if it’s your second or seventh, you must be capable of chug a Coors Mild on prime of a bus whereas the adoring plenty take part. Saying they need to maintain it underneath wraps implies that the habits isn’t acceptable — and I couldn’t disagree extra.

The third letter ought to’ve obtained the eye

I’ll give Fox Information kudos for acknowledging the third letter among the many group (gotta be a bizarre day for the visitors analyst on the KC Star seeing “Letters to the editor” because the most-read story). The letter author took difficulty with staff announcer Mitch Holthus encouraging followers to complete off the parade with the “Arrowhead Chop,” aka the offensive chant that demeans Native People.

Different fan bases who nonetheless observe an identical mantra regardless of public calls from the offended events to maneuver on are the Atlanta Braves and the Florida State Seminoles, so you recognize you’re in good firm. I might argue that instructing kids to proceed racist traditions solely as a result of they’re traditions is worse habits than “swilling beer.”