Let's flash alllllllllllll the way back to late Wednesday night....
Annnnnd now to yesterday afternoon...
There's no shortage of insults I can easily lob the way of a State Representative who decided it was necessary to - more or less - tell a random teenager to "grow up" simply because that teenager was rethinking whether he truly wanted to play college football for a team that didn't currently have a coach. That being said, I must first begrudgingly admit one thing about Bill Post. He is, without a doubt, a University of Oregon diehard. You can say he's downright pathetic as a politician whose job requires him to cast aside emotion and prioritize logic in speaking publicly, but don't you dare say he won't get high and mighty when it comes to defending his Ducks to the death. All the way down to excusing his way into sounding somewhat unapologetic in his apology, that is a man whose love for his sports' teams is unconditional. I mean, he shows all the symptoms of an irrational level of investment. Temporary blindness to his inherent bias? Check. The instinctual inability to see that he was being blatantly hypocritical in the moment? Check. Hell, I guarantee Bill Post is the type of subjective supporter that needs at least 24 hours to admit that his team was guilty of committing even one single penalty, and what fanbase doesn't need a few thousand of those? Re-read that DM and tell me it isn't dripping with the type of self loathing that one can only experience after the adrenaline (and/or booze) wears off and all that remains is a moment of clarity in which you realize you were distraught over a game played by people who aren't even old enough to rent a car. You mean to tell me that you haven't been there and done that? Now, I think it's safe to assume that most of us aren't professionally in the public eye nor have we tried to play the vicarious role of father figure to the 18 year old son of a stranger. However, maybe - just maybe - that means we could never dream of being detached enough to reach Bill Post's level of fandom.
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