On Skool Spirit

On School Spirit

As I sit here in study hall, I observe the strangley-clothed children that sit around me.
Some wear haiwaiin Lais or construction helmets.  Many wear shirts saying, "Go West, Beat City"
or "Roast the Little Hawks."  Some of the more "rebellious" ones are donned in T-Shirts saying, 
"Fuxity" which I assume is a censored version of Fuck City.  Their attempts to brandish their 
"inappropriate" shirts result in being told to put on a sweatshirt, which they graciously accept.
A man wearing a greeen and gold toga, with his face painted the same colors enters the room, What
the fuck is going on? Did I take some bad acid? Nope, though wheteher everyone else did I don't 
know.  Today is the day of the relentlessly anticipated City vs. West football game.  All of this
for a fucking football game.  I just don't get it.  Almost every locker in the hall is adorned
with green and gold signs.   I found "Crank up the diesel" to be the most amusing of them.  I 
don't quite understand what diesel fuel has to do with football, probably the ame thing that 
makes kids go crazy for the sport.  Every year I hear about kids getting into fights over this…
which I find rather silly, though quite real as I give my friend a shirt to wear over his, which
is accidently the colors of City High.  Looking around again I see that I am among the minority 
of those not showing "School Spirit."  Fine with me.  I'm sure as hell not going out of my way 
to celebrate a foolish sports contest.  We have a"Spirit Assembly" after our shortened afternoon
classes, which for me translates into early release.  Another thought of immense amusement comes
into my head.  On Monday, after this wonderful game, everyone will be talking about how "we" 
kicked ass, or about how "we'll" get revenge in the playoffs.  I laugh, wondering exactly what 
part of the team these individuals played.  Even if is a football player making these statements,
I wonder not who, because that's all too obvious from observing today's school population, but 
why anyone would care?  To sum it up, football is entirly meaning less, as are all sports, and 
people shouldn't get all crazy about the "big" game.  They should go about their silly little 
lives like nothing happened, because in reality nothing did happen.