College Football Fans Show True Colors
More often than not, we see the worst come out of people during sporting events. But, sometimes, that is
UConn cornerback Jasper Howard
all set aside and we see the best part of people come out during sporting events.
If you don’t think that sports is important, just ask yourself: when is the last time you saw a black man and a white man hugging that wasn’t on an athletic field?
In Morgantown, West Virginia, last weekend, some of the most notoriously unruly fans in the country put aside their differences in a newly burgeoning rivalry.
It was a football game pitting the major university of the second richest state in the USA versus the major university of the second poorest state. Suburban New York and Boston versus small town rural America.
It was a football game in which black fans and white fans may as well have been hugging each other. Some probably were.
Please take a moment to set aside the silliness of college fantasy football and read this article that was published in the University of Connecticut student newspaper.
