It's not football. It's much deeper than that.
For everybody who's worked into a tizzy over the football issue, I have some good advice: Calm down! Stop. Breathe in deep. Exhale slowly. Repeat.
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The issue at hand, as has been said ad-nauseum, is not about whether the townsfolk want and like football. It is simply about people keeping their word. I will not repeat the entire debate here again-- you can scroll down and read the previous postings on the matter. In short, three years back, many well-respected people, in concert with our elected representatives, said that this wasn't going to cost the taxpayers any money. If it ever did, they would let the whole town decide. Period.
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Watching school board members, administrators, and certain leaders of the football organization engage in verbal gymnastics in their attempts to weasel out of earlier promises made has been a sad sight indeed. What we really have here is an assault on the very essence of self-government: honesty and people honoring their given word. Go figure.
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