We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Campbell draws a boundary between the ritualized hostility of sport and the norms of civic or political life. Booing is framed as a legitimate, even enjoyable, part of the theatre of football—an outlet for tribal emotion that is understood as symbolic and time-limited. But when the same behavior migrates into public debate, it can cheapen discussion, intimidate speakers, and replace argument with crowd noise. The line “I love a good boo…” acknowledges his own fandom to avoid sounding puritanical, while reinforcing the central claim: some forms of antagonism are acceptable only within agreed arenas and rules.