Your Booing Is Crushing The Souls Of America's Youth

I've never really thought of booing as something that could do much psychological damage... you play on the road, you hear it, and that's how it goes. The booers, in most cases, aren't making any sort of judgment on you or the choices you made in your life, they're booing because you're wearing colors than the home team. Really, it's not personal.

But the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association is in the business of protecting feelings, and they feel like your boos are going to make someone cry. They're considering rules for fan conduct that would, among other things, ban the practice of booing.

The offenders would be locked up in a cage and subjected to a punishment even scarier than booing... they would be told that they are "U-G-L-Y, and that they ain't go no ability alibi, the ugly. Their mama said they ugly."

These seems a little overboard. I's true that fan conduct can sometimes be a problem these days, but there's no mention in this article of anything particularly egregious happening in the WIAA. Come on, administrators. Embrace the boo. The kids can handle it, I promise.

Booing at games may be banned [Seattle P-I]