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Saturday, October 04, 2003
It has been a popular rant to say lately that "sports and politics do not mix" since the entire Rush Limbaugh fiasco. I'm not so sure that advice will be heeded though, as there have been other examples of such commentary since then.
For example, check out ESPN GameDay's talking head Chris Fowler's column on the Alabama fan who stupidly shot at his kid after the Tide lost to Arkansas in overtime:
"However, on the college football beat I've often witnessed the flipside of fans' deep passion. It's ugly and it's dangerous. It's a pretty thin line between a screaming fan, so enraged his eyes and veins are bulging, and an attempted murderer. Sometimes all that seperates them is the availability of a gun, or a knife, or a bottle.
A fan was shot near Legion Field following an Auburn-Alabama showdown that GameDay attended. I believe the year was 1996. Clearly, there are too damn many guns available, but that's another column for another web site."
Yeah. Blame the gun. Fowler would be better served to refer back to his comments in 1997 when he brought up the "white trailer trash mentality" of Volunteer fans who were outraged about Peyton Manning losing the Heisman to Charles Woodson. Maybe it's something in the loony father's cabeza, Chris.
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Dave
10:28 AM
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