This weekend saw a rough and tumble match with a very physical Sporting KC team and a ref who decided he would not call any fouls all match long. I know you were frustrated, I was frustrated as well. However, throwing things on to the pitch is not the way to express that frustration. Boo, whistle, yell abuse at the refs (keeping in mind the young ears that may be around you) but for gods-sake do not throw things on to the pitch.

Throwing things on to the pitch, at best, makes Houston Dynamo fans look like hooligans and gives us all a bad name. At worst, it hurts the team. When those of you behind the SKC goal were throwing things at Jimmy Nielsen did you not pause to consider that this gave Nielsen a perfectly valid excuse to waste time, clearing all of those streamers? Do you think that the ref was going to hurry him along or add that time on to the match? If so, you were dead wrong. That was at least 30 seconds of match time that we lost, that was taken away from the Dynamo in their efforts to get a late winner, all because you morons could not control yourselves.

There were a lot of time wasting tactics on display by SKC this weekend. A ref can continue to add time or he can look to end the match as quickly as possible. Which way do you think he is going to go when people are throwing objects at the assistant refs and on to the pitch? Let me clue you in: he will look to end the match as quickly as possible.

Then, of course, there were the idiots who were taking the card stunt cards and folding them into airplanes then throwing those off of the upper bowl. In the last regular season match against New York I sat in the lower bowl. In the dying moments, we fans were hit by an onslaught of card planes coming from above us. Try getting hit by one of these things sometimes coming from height and with velocity. It hurts. God forbid one hits someone in the eye. Would you be proud of yourselves if you physically harmed a fellow Dynamo fan.

I use the term "fan" loosely here. I suspect those of you doing this are too stupid and inconsiderate for me to really want to consider you as a fellow fan. You certainly did yourselves and your team no favors this weekend. I hope you are proud of yourselves.