The high school football season has started and most students are looking to show their school spirit by participating in Friday Night’s football themes. But it is difficult to show too much school spirit when the game themes are redone. 

The football game themes are reused and lack variety. Most themes include a “color out” where students are supposed to wear a certain color in support of our team. Color outs aren’t an issue, the issue is how many themes this year are a color out.

Our themes this year, in order, are jerseys, red out, camo, Hawaiian, blackout, pink (out), neon, USA, pajamas and white out. Half of our game themes are colors with no variety. While some of the colors hold significance, like school colors, or breast cancer awareness, we don’t need every school color to be a theme. 

The themes should be more thoughtful than a “color out” for students to have a chance to use creativity to show their support for our team. Dressing in simple colors gets boring fast, whereas if we had more variety in the themes such as flash to the past, disco, pool party, frat boys, or Halloween costumes, students of Sparkman could show way more creativity.

There are many, many more stimulating and spirit-inducing themes than a simple color theme. I’m not saying to do away with all the color themes, but I am saying to revisit the themes and make changes to all the repeats.

All in all, creating themes that appeal to everyone wouldn’t be an easy feat. Though sometimes taking the easy way out and doing a color theme is appealing, the themes of our football games need more diversity.