Reply #6: It always amuses me

[anti_shrub]

How there's so many people who actively dislike a certain subject, say sports for example, who suddenly end up experts on the very same subject once it takes a political slant (real or percieved).

Most people on DU (especially in the Lounge) don't care about football and some will even post pages upon pages of why sports are useless in society and should be banned because there's more important things people should worry about. Those that do care tend to get shouted down by the crowds of people who cluck their tongues at people who enjoy such caveman pastimes.

Let a politcal figure interject in what was essentially an internal team issue that goes beyond what is public knowledge, and suddenly there's wails of protest at how unfair the mean old Eagles are.