October 20, 2006, - 11:54 am
ABSURD: Sports “Expert” Blames UMiami Brawl on Iraq War
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Looks like former Syracuse quarterback Don McPherson got one too many brain concussions on the field.
McPherson, executive director of the Sports Leadership Institute at Adelphi University, is blaming last Saturday’s on the War in Iraq! HUH?
Violent thugs who don’t belong in college beat each other, stomp on each other, etc., and this is somehow because of our being in Iraq. Puh-leeze. (And he blames it on masculinity. Actually, real masculinity would mean walking away.)
Here’s the pyschobabble quote from today’s USA Today Sports Section’s “Pooch Kicks and Pancakes” column, in which every excuse in the book is given for unbridled, unwarranted wilding and thuggery:
I think we’ve long talked about this generation and the impact of video games and film and the media and even the war. I think you’re looking at a generation of young men where violence is the norm. It’s seen as a way of maintaining your masculine stature. . . . It’s about winning the masculinity battle, the tough-guy battle.
I wonder how our men fighting in Iraq feel that they are being blamed for a violent fight between at least 31 over-privileged, coddled goons on a Miami football field.
Tags: Adelphi University, brain concussions, Don McPherson, executive director, Florida International University, Iraq, Miami, Miami football field, Quarterback, Sports Leadership Institute, Sports Leadership Institute at Adelphi University, Syracuse quarterback, USA Today
It’s the War On Terror that did this?! BULLSHIT! It’s an endless cycle of growing up in a home without a father! It’s the endless cycle of urban bastardization! It’s the endless cycle of “who your baby mama?!”. It’s the endless cycle of children being born out of wedlock and growing into these street thugs with a free college education because they can run a 4.4 40, bench 405 for reps, or catch a damn football or basketball. The war in Iraq has as much to do with this as the war on drugs!
Yiddish Steel on October 20, 2006 at 12:23 pm