Colts Jersey Causes Clash at La. School

[Wilson]

CBS News/AP ^
A Louisiana high school student says he was sent home for wearing an Indianapolis Colts jersey Friday - the day the principal encouraged students to wear New Orleans Saints black and gold as the teams get ready to face off in the Super Bowl. "If they tell other students to support their team, why can't I support mine?" Brandon Frost, 17, told The Associated Press. The senior at Maurepas High School moved three years ago from Indianapolis to the rural town 30 miles from Baton Rouge. A Livingston Parish School Board member said Frost wasn't sent home, but was told...

[adagioinb]

"Louisiana would be proud of him anyway," Larry Frost said. "He wore Joseph Addai's jersey."

The Colts running back is a graduate of Louisiana State University.

I thought this was an interesting twist.

But seriously, did the kid have a death wish???? It seems to me that self-preservation would kick in and select something else to wear.

But it seems the school has a strict dress code, and only relaxed it to allow the wearing of black & gold for that day only.

Bad judgement, followed by more bad judgement all the way around.
Poor kid.

[steve-o]

People get too crazed about sports. It's just entertainment people!