We Needn’t Promote Hatred

It’s well-known that millions of Americans spend a great deal of time watching football on television, particularly on Sundays, when most of the professional games are played.

Though I was paying only casual attention to yesterday’s contests, I happened to notice the announcers in two different games used the word “hate” to describe the feelings that fan bases of certain rivals have for each other.

Hate? Really?  Do the Philadelphia Eagles supporters hate the Dallas Cowboys fans? Maybe this is an accurate term for a small percentage of deranged people, but most people who hail from the Philadelphia vicinity simply feel some sort of natural allegiance to the local team, which by no means requires us to hate people who come from Dallas, or any other city.

Making statements like these serve to promote hatred, a commodity of which there is already a superabundance in the world right now.