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“PLEASE Clap for Our Kids Too”: I Know You’re Not in the Stadium to See the Marching Band or Cheerleaders, But They Need Your Support

Dear High School Football Fans,

This is a friendly seasonal PSA.

Another season of Friday night lights is upon us. We’re all looking forward to seeing our kids play and perform. We know you’re so excited to see the football team take the field. As marching band, color guard, cheer, and dance fans, we’re excited to see our teams take the field, too.

We’re all here for the same reason: to cheer on our kids and support our schools and communities. We understand you might not be in the stadium primarily to see the marching band or color guard or cheerleaders or dance team. But when they’re on the field performing, we ask that you kindly show respect for the fan sitting next to you and let them listen and watch. They’re probably trying to hear and see their son or granddaughter or niece or friend. Talking or blocking their view while that happens is like standing directly and intentionally in the line of vision of a football parent while their child is making a game-winning play.

On the other hand, please DO cheer for these performers: clap and yell when they take the field and between songs in the halftime show and after a soloist finishes playing and pretty much anytime they do a formation that looks particularly involved. These are their equivalent of touchdowns.

Football players work incredibly hard; so do our band, color guard, cheer, and dance kids. They march and practice and play and learn drill and put together routines and give up summer free time in 90-degree heat to get their “game” ready, too. There’s no “marching band madness” coverage to balance out “football frenzy” on the 11 o’clock news, and the local newspaper probably didn’t give a run-down of their show and who’s on their roster and what they’re expecting from the season. The halftime show IS their big moment.

Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer
Elizabeth Spencer is mom to two daughters (one teen and one young adult) who regularly dispense love, affection, and brutally honest fashion advice. She writes about faith, food, and family (with some occasional funny thrown in) at Guilty Chocoholic Mama and avoids working on her 100-year-old farmhouse by spending time on Facebook and Twitter.

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