Ian 🏴‍☠️

In Iowa City they built the children's hospital next to the football stadium, and they put a window on the twelfth floor that looks down into the field. That window was designed that way on purpose. So the sick kids could watch. For a while, that was the whole story. A window. Then in 2017 somebody put an idea on a fan page. What if, at the end of the first quarter, everybody turned around and waved at them. Seventy thousand people do it now. Every home game. The players do it. The coaches do it. The other team does it. Think about what that is. A stadium full of people who spent all week talking about how much they hate each other, and for one minute they all turn their backs on the game and wave at a window. Later they wanted a new song for it, so they put it to a vote. The fans voted to hand the choice to the kids in the hospital instead. I have stopped trying to explain your country to people at home. I just tell them about the window.