A recent letter to the editor in the Enquirer raised the question of which games to take children to. I think that this is a really good way to look at it, that some games are rated PG and some are rated R.

It reminded me of a conversation I had with one of the partners at my company last year. He had told me that he had been a season ticket holder for years, and got the tickets to take his sons to the games. But he finally got rid of the tickets after the 2005 season because he felt that Bengals games weren't the right places for his sons to hang out.

I immediately wondered if perhaps he'd been sitting near me for the playoff game against Pittsburgh. I uttered a few choice words for most of the game.

What I like about this letter to the editor, though, is that it's not calling on Bengals fans to shape up. It's telling parents that some games get the crowd riled up so much that you might not want your children to be there. This is probably more of a common sense solution than the jerk hotline.

Money quote:

I'm not condoning the drunk taking his shirt off screaming about what he's going to do to other people's sorry butts. I'm just saying it happens.