Keep your shirt on

Add comment June 6th, 2008

That’s what the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association is telling high school sports fans. The association voted May 2 to recommend banning fans with bare or painted chests from indoor games.  Athletic directors need to approve the measure next and then the association’s Board of Control has to give its OK.  Bar-chested fans already are banned from state tournament games.
Justification for the ban, which may be the first in the country,  is that high schoolers can’t take their shirts off in class so why should they be allowed to do so at indoor games. Also, some people find it offensive.

It would still be OK to go topless at outdoor events.

Never thought this was a big issue. Guess I was wrong.

It’s pretty common for men to take their shirts off in sub-zero weather at football games to show their support for their team.  I guess they think it proves their manliness.

Here’s what I’d like to see. During some game where it’s 100 degrees, I’d like to see the TV cameras zoom in on a group that’s wearing heavy parkas and stocking caps. Wonder who would last longer: the subzero shirtless crowd or the sweaty parka wearers.