Don't jump off the bandwagon

Columbia High School fans are loyal. If you win, the fans will travel from Columbia to Scranton or even Pittsburgh to watch the Tide play.
Friday night in the rain up on the hill, that thud you heard after the game was what I will call”not so loyal” Crimson Tide bandwagon after a disappointing opening night loss to Eastern.
Granted the crowd wasn’t as big as many thought because of the weather. had the weather been nice, the stadium would have been packed.
Friday night, the Tide is home again for another non-league game with York Suburban, a team they haven’t played in a few years.
Will the stadium be packed to support the Tide? I don’t even need to answer that one. The answer will be no.
That’s because the Tide lost one game. Sure, it was to a rival, but it wasn’t Lancaster Catholic.
The cheerleaders were selling t-shirts over the summer, with the phrase “there are two kinds of people -- people from Columbia and people who wish they were from Columbia.”
In our town, and its not all fans, there are people from Columbia who jump off the bandwagon just as quick as they jump on.
Folks, it’s just one game. There are still at least nine more left in the season, and who knows when the Tide starts to right its ship this weekend, there will probably be a trip to the District Three playoffs.
Although I haven’t heard much of it, but I’m sure there are plenty of nay sayers, who may have or may not have went to the game on Friday, who have nothing good to say about what happened. To those folks, I say, and always will, stay away, we don’t need you or want you to attend games.
The players on the field, along with the coaches are giving their best. Remember, they are only high school athletes and the last I looked they weren’t getting paid millions to play.
Perhaps a few words of encouragement would be better.
I’ve said my piece and I will always be on the bandwagon.

Odds and ends...

• Went to a junior high football scrimmage last week at Northeastern High School in York County.
They are playing varsity football for the first time this season.
Nice facility, but they only have bleachers on one side of the field.
Hit of the scrimmage happened on the far sidelines when a player from Northeastern did a “Joe Paterno” to one of the Columbia coaches. Let’s just say, it wasn’t that graceful!
• Is it just me, but didn’t it seem like it rained every Friday night last football season.
A new season started Friday night, and it rained again. And the weather forecast for this week isn’t looking that great either.
• Watched the Phillies last week.
I know I am writing about him almost every week, but right now the two games that Charlie Manuel blew last week with his moves may have cost the Phillies the division.