DEAR EDITOR:
It is with great dismay that I read about so many of the young
Oakland Raiders fans going on a rampage after their team’s loss in
last Sunday’s Super Bowl.
DEAR EDITOR:
It is with great dismay that I read about so many of the young Oakland Raiders fans going on a rampage after their team’s loss in last Sunday’s Super Bowl.
Webster’s Dictionary defines the word “fanatic” as “A person marked or motivated by an extreme, unreasoning enthusiasm, as for a cause.”
It can be argued that one meaning of the word “fan” comes from the word “fanatic.” But these people proved to be more fanatics than sports fans; hooligans who gladly and at any opportunity spit in the face of law-and-order, gangsters who regard nothing but their own pleasure at the expense of others’ property and possessions.
How tragic that their concept of “good sportsmanship” proved to be the unreasoning lawlessness of the raiders of history past, those who trashed and burned for a cause that the winds of time will soon pass over.
James Fennell, Gilroy
Submitted Tuesday, Jan. 28 to ed****@****ic.com
