Terrebonne Parish and Lafourche Parish are voting to move this year’s trick or treating to October 30 instead of October 31, as it has been celebrated for two thousand years since the Celts.
Why? Because the Saints have a scheduled football game that night.
Am I the only person who thinks that this is ludicrous?
Why don’t we reschedule our other holidays around football season as well. Let’s move Christmas, Thanksgiving, and New Year’s because we want to spend time at a game instead of with family. Who cares how long these holidays have been celebrated on these special days?
Since when did our lives need to be scheduled around a game, which the name in itself implies recreation? It’s called priorities. People should decide what is more important: taking their children trick or treating or watching a football game. There shouldn’t be an option of changing a two thousand year old holiday because people don’t want to put their children before a past time.
One of the arguments used to support this change was that children would have to return to school the next day after a night of trick or treating. And what about all the previous years that children returned to school the day after Halloween night? I can remember as a child having to return to school the next day with my pockets full of candy and stories of what I’d seen for my friends. There was no suggestion of changing it then because there was no football game. It’s not as if Halloween falls on a weekend every year, and there were no complaints until a football game fell on the occasion.
Halloween should be left as is. It’s always been on October 31. Let it remain where it belongs.
Sorry for the rant, but sometimes I can’t help myself. (And contrary to popular belief, I do try. Well, sometimes.)
When the newspaper first printed the idea of changing Halloween, I responded with my own rants and raves! Ridiculous. AND, give the Saints one losing season and no one will notice what day they chose for the next game.
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