theclemsonkid
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I'm from Massillon, Ohio, which sadly is only really known for two things... high school football and crippling unemployment. So, this Saturday is the big rivalry game between Massillon and McKinley (which granted as far as high school football games go, it doesn't get much bigger). The game will have almost 20,000 people in the stadium, and another 5,000 or so adults who like to "tailgate" (i.e. former player Al Bundy types who love to get plowed and talk about the time they scored five TD's in the big game)
So because of the fact there will be a ton of people in the area, local, state, and national political figures wanted to have a little political rally prior to the game in the park that's adjacent to the stadium. There would have been two big guns there including minority House leader John Boehner and former president Bill Clinton.
Then at the last minute, the school board and mayor canceled the event because too many of the local yokels complained that the traffic would be too overwhelming and the tailgating couldn't happen like they had hoped. People are also complaining that they don't want the football team "politicized", yet most of them look past the fact that there is a person who financed entirely on his own dime an indoor practice facility and the artificial turf that we play on, who also happens to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to his political party and their local politicians.
It just makes me sad that my hometown cares more about drinking beer and talking about a bunch of high school kids, than actually paying attention to something that could legitimately affect their lives. And we wonder why this country is heading down the drain...
So because of the fact there will be a ton of people in the area, local, state, and national political figures wanted to have a little political rally prior to the game in the park that's adjacent to the stadium. There would have been two big guns there including minority House leader John Boehner and former president Bill Clinton.
Then at the last minute, the school board and mayor canceled the event because too many of the local yokels complained that the traffic would be too overwhelming and the tailgating couldn't happen like they had hoped. People are also complaining that they don't want the football team "politicized", yet most of them look past the fact that there is a person who financed entirely on his own dime an indoor practice facility and the artificial turf that we play on, who also happens to contribute tens of thousands of dollars to his political party and their local politicians.
It just makes me sad that my hometown cares more about drinking beer and talking about a bunch of high school kids, than actually paying attention to something that could legitimately affect their lives. And we wonder why this country is heading down the drain...
