It's been a month or so since I heard that one of the more prominent members of the oldest collegiate league in the Philippines, the NCAA, have suspended their whole cheering squad for the entire season. Letran's Cheering Squad and Cheerdance have been suspended by their Rector for fighting.
They were fighting alright, but there's a twist. They were fighting...amongst themselves.
Goodness gracious me.
I mean, you should be supporting each other but what's this? Now there's no one who will raise up the spirit of the crowd and the Letran Knights in games.
What's even more bamboozling about it is that it stemmed from the Letran Cheering Squad's (those who do the yells), declining his squad's assignment to perform at the JRU game by Letran's cultural affairs office. The excus? The same lame "oh we're not available" tune. So what did the school's cultural affairs do?
Simple. Contact the cheerdance coach, Buck Briones, and have their turn in performing for the audience at halftime. It was all set and game day was on. That's when things got ugly.
The cheering squad showed up. And they were fuming since they, in my opinion, always want the limelight for themselvea. "Men of old Letran," they say. Where there is no place for sissy cheerdancing.
So the handler, Louie de Leon, decided to pick a fight with Briones and things got ugly, bred by jealousy and hate might I add. Soon enough, the kids were punching with each other in the stands.
Personal and sexual slurs were hurled at Briones. And the admin of the school? They did not escape unscathed. "Manly" alumni ranted on Facebook at the "Taga Letran Manila ka kung" page. They called out incompetency by their Rector, the director of the school's cultural affairs and Briones among others. Worst of all, they wanted to kixk the gays out of Letran, saying as far as degrading the institution itself.
Downright ugly? No doubt.
Who came out looking like idiots? The alumni themselves.
Worse? They're now banned and deemed persona non grata by their alma mater.
Idiots. That's what these "manly men" are.
Courtside spotter signing out.
