Snobbery and sport

I'd started to write a lengthy note about those who disdain and loudly mock others who enjoy various sporting events. But, in the end, my rejoinder to some of the ill-mannered who have spouted off about how *they* would never like anything so *plebeian* as the Super Bowl can be summarized briefly:

Don't mock others for their preferences, if you want them to respect yours. You are being whiny and churlish.

If you do not like something, do the same thing my mother told me to do at a dinner party when I was 9: quietly set aside the thing you do not like, and do not bring attention to your rejection. In short, do not be a lout.

Thanks. I needed to say that.