A Note from Phil's Desk
The John Adams Football team. What a great team! The new field, the new PA systems fired up. Its home comming game. You can feel the excitement! Mr. Ross calms down the cheerleaders. Then the announcer anounces the home team. The crowd roars as he shouts "and now, your 1997 John Adams Spartans!!". Then your mind starts to wonder.
Did I just hear right? Is that the same John Adams, former President of our country? A grandfather to the United States? You betcha. Now how can a patriotic name, such as John Adams, be followed by a mascot, a Greek soldier?? HELLO!! Who picked our high school mascot? Did anyone realize this? I mean, don't get me wrong fellow Adam Boppers. I love the Spartan logo in the weight room. I even love the guy who dresses up as a Spartan, half naked in 20 degree weather. But doesn't anyone find it ridiculous? John Adams Spartans??? We should be renamed the John Adams Patriots, Clippers, or anything "american". John Adams is turning over in his grave!
Another thing strikes the mind. The Spartans, they were tough guys in Greece (Sparta). They were taken away from there homes as soon as they were born, to live in jail-like conditions. They were trained killing machines. The Spartans were tough men right? Nope. The Spartans believed that any "contact" with a woman would give you "womanly ways". The Spartans had sex with each other..... You got it, the Spartans were gay.
A football team, from a school named after an american hero, with a mascot named after Greek soldiers, that were gay? What's the world comming to? I think its high time we changed our mascot for the football team. Atleast for John Adams, the person's sake.
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