As a 64-year-old hockey fan, I’ve been to my share of Toledo Blades, Hornets, Goaldiggers, Storm, and Walleye games.
Many years ago, fans marked the start of the game by standing and singing to the national anthem. As the game transitioned to a sport with more fighting and less hockey, an occasional fan or two would shout “hit somebody” in anticipation of the fights that were sure to come. The chant caught on so much that fans raced to be the first to yell it out. The “hit somebody” chant eventually encroached into the ending of our anthem.
Now that fighting during hockey games is more in check, is it time to respect the anthem and the tradition by yelling “hit somebody” as the puck is being dropped to start the game and when we really want to see someone hit?
TED KATAFIASZ
Maumee
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Why don’t teachers write off luxuries?
One of the features of the proposed Senate tax bill is that jet owners can write off jets, but teachers cannot write off school supplies they buy for their students.
The simple solution is any teacher concerned about this can buy a jet for transportation to school. The write-off of their jet will easily pay for all the school supplies they buy.
STEVEN KRAMER\
Perrysburg
Let the experts manage the deer
While culling of deer may seem like a cruel practice, it’s necessary.
Nothing is more upsetting than when I go for a ride and see a deceased, starved deer who died because food was not available. So let the people who know about deer populations make the call so that we can all enjoy a healthy deer population.
WILLIAM MILLER
Perrysburg
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Day running lights could save lives
I strongly concur with David Leonhardt’s Nov. 21 column, “Driverless cars the best hope to end America’s highway carnage.“
There is a simple means of increasing highway safety: require daytime running lights be turned on at all times.
Canada, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and the entire European Union have made daytime running lights mandatory. Studies have shown their value in preventing the severe types of accidents, including head-on and intersection crashes and collisions with pedestrians and cyclists.
According to research, daytime running lights could prevent 25 percent of fatal multivehicle accidents and 28 percent of fatal pedestrian accidents.
Mandating daytime running lights costs nothing and produces immediate results.
CHARLES W. WEASEL
Findlay
First Published November 26, 2017, 12:30 p.m.
