As you may or may not know, it’s possible to get dragged into an online machismo contest about something rather absurd. I know, kinda odd, isn’t it? We have a mechanism for education and communication, and it gets somehow twisted and contorted into a partisan “Yay Me” fest. It happens all too often. I was recently in one of those, and the general discussion leads to a fairly decent Cheer Local segment on the Southern Illinois-Edwardsville Cougars.
Before I get to the specifics, I’ll lay some groundwork on the Cougars, who play their home games Roy E. Lee Field, about 40 miles from St.