Common sense on the North Saskatchewan

During the second round of the 2004 playoffs, the Red Mile was yet but an emerging phenominon where fans joined together in an exuberant yet restrained celebration. Everyone was having fun and there were very few problems, even though the crowd size was exceding 20,000 or more on game nights.

This isn't to say that there weren't dipshits in the crowd. I do recall a guy trying to start something by throwing raw eggs into the air, and another tossing full water bottles at random. In both of these cases, the majority of the crowd booed these morons into submission, and very little of these incidents occurred throughout the rest of the playoffs, even during the end when things could have been much worse.

Which begs the question, why aren't Grease fans acting in the same manner to put their E-tard peers in their place?

It is refreshing that instead of touting for increased police presence on today's Whyte Avenue, the Edmonton Sun editors page is calling for some "good, old fashioned peer pressure" to "keep the losers in line". This is a long overdue sentiment made by community leaders which should be taken heed by the youth of Shiv City.

I don't know if this attitude will be taken up by the celebrants of the Stanley Oil run of 2006 but, if nothing else, it does allow me to express some pride that my fellow Red Milers of 2004 did not have to be told to put idiots in their place long before the damage to Calgary's image had been done.