Mount Union vs. Whitewater

[ajmc]

Does anyone really doubt that "Trash talking" is the fuel that ignites most of the really stupid behavior we see on football fields, yet the only level that (even tries) to prohibit it is the one dealing with the LEAST mature players.

It seems astonishing, that collegiate level football would tolerate, if not encourage by virtually ignoring, such unnecessary, out-of place, juvenile behavior, which is also encouraged at the professional level where the game is played by GROWN men.

There is absolutely no doubt, the bad examples displayed routinely at both the collegiate and professional levels filters down and serves as a profound (BAD) example, too often mimicked by interscholastic athletes, where it takes root to poison behavior for those who advance, completing an ugly, stupid pattern of behavior.