stand up and B counted

And the announcer says: “All 90,000
stand as one,” which is a lie, of course,
because not all 90,000 stand, nor is the
number
exactly 90,000, nor, even if all did, could they do it
“as
one,” without some practice, and this is the same announcer
who
castigates athletes
for not telling the truth,
or
lying, whichever comes first (for there
is a difference, you know). It is
an unnecessary silliness, this throwaway line,
meant, somehow, to dramatize something
that needs
no
additional drama.
The curious question, though, is this: does this
bother anyone else, that this lame brain so
easily insults our collective intelligence by trying to make
us believe that 90,000 people,
who have trouble getting out of each other’s way in
the concourse, much less the
post-game parking mess, could possibly “stand
as one?”
Or
is
it
just me? (I'm not
sure you need
to answer
that.)