If You Like to Beat a Dead Horse!

And the award for January's Best Technique When Beating a Dead Horse goes to...
Malcolm Delaney on Maryland: 'They might have the worst fans ever.' 
....and anyone else who has written a similar article in the last two years gets honorable mention (too many names to mention).
This one is brought to you by the Hokies Journal over at the Washington Post.

Summary:
Maryland fans are bad. Maryland fans are mean. I don't like Maryland fans. They are gross. They say whatever they want. There is no limit to the bad and mean things that those Maryland-fans-that-I-don't-like will say. If you've read one "Maryland students are poorly behaved" article, then you've read them all.

Reaction:
Why do I feel as if I have read this article before? Oh, because I have.
I have been around obnoxious Maryland fans during home games, but that is all Maryland fans are: obnoxious. I have been to away games, been around obnoxious fans of other teams, and have heard the same words spoken by opposing team's fans. For whatever reason, being a jerk at a sporting event is only a faux pas in the 20740 area code. Consider me confused.

Sure, there are times when I am embarrassed by my fellow Terps. It is the same way I am embarrassed when my mother tells random people the story of how I took off my clothes at the grocery store and ran down the aisles naked when I was two years old (what can I say, grocery shopping makes me do crazy things). It is a story that I would prefer to keep on the down-low, but it is not that bad when said out loud and it can be funny if the comedic timing is just right.


Come on, ye of thin skin! Toughen up a bit! Complaining that someone said "you suck" is so fifth grade. And blaming poor composure and lack of mental toughness on a phantom slur that only you hear is not fooling anyone. And if you are hearing things like that you may want to talk to someone about it, because "hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the Wizarding World."