[Madison]

I wonder how often sports teams are penalized for the behavior of fans wearing team jerseys. Probably not often.

When we're at competition -- especially those closest to home -- about half of the people walking around the venue in 488 shirts are folks I've never seen before.

What do we do? We could deny our supporters the chance to wear our uniform, but that doesn't really seem to jive with the notion of celebrating what we're all doing there. We could make them all go sit through some ridiculous "gracious professionalism" lecture, but since these are people I've never seen before, I'd rather be happy that they've showed up at all.

The short version, I guess, is that I think penalizing an entire group of people for the actions of a small number of people -- especially without any notion of the role those people play on the team -- is completely ridiculous.