Bill Maher recently voiced his personal objections to the trend in public sports games, in this case the NBA playoffs, of the fans all wearing the same colors, presumably those of the home team. So it was the other day in Miami (and tonight as well), with the stands full of Heat "white". In Oklahoma City, their fans wear blue, which in the opening home playoff game against Dallas was too funny for me: the visiting Dallas players also wore blue, perfectly matching their opponent's fans, while the Oklahoma City players themselves wore white. The screw-up appeared to be corrected for the next game, though, with the stands all white-garbed.
Yes, Bill Maher, this all creeps me out, too. I can't help but recall those old Nazi propaganda movies with the rallies and everyone dressed exactly the same way. I would feel a lot more comfortable with at least a little bit of nonconformity in the clothing department sprinkled throughout the stands. Sure, fans will tend to wear their team's colors, but they are taking the loyalty/uniformity thing way too far. Now if someone were to pay MY admission price to the game, I might be willing to play along with the dress code as well. But the fans are pretty much themselves shelling out the big bucks to attend these games and should have more self-respect than they are demonstrating by their sheep-like demeanor...
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