Please Be A Grownup and Don’t Be a Sore Loser When Watching Sports

Football fans, especially when their team loses, want to find fault.

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This is the second time this fall I’ve felt compelled to write about football. And the reason is that adults cannot seem to act like adults after a loss. The Buffalo Bills won last night, on Sunday Night Football, 27–17 against a struggling Green Bay Packer team in Orchard Park New York, on Buffalo’s home turf.

We watched the game from our home in Wisconsin. Yes, Wisconsin — the heart of Packer country.

We’ve never been huge football fans but when you see a team you grew up with — the Buffalo Bills — that has struggled for decades after four consecutive Super Bowl losses, 1991–1994, it sure is good to see them win.

For years, living in Wisconsin, even as fair-weather Bills fans, we put up with grief from those we knew who cheered on Green Bay — which, let’s face it — was almost everyone! We heard a lot of “the Bills suck, or they always choke or can’t get the job done.” My husband was even verbally accosted in a department store over wearing a Buffalo Bills ballcap during football season one year. The opening line was, “How dare you….!”

You can imagine the rest.