Sports Follies

--Tony Dungy is upset about MNF intro, a sort of racy skit using Terrell Owens and one of the Housewives. In Dungy’s mind, the skit was racist.

“I look at that and what I see in an African American.”

That’s odd. All I saw was Terrell Owens.
I wide receiver.
And a proven asshole.
But that was about it.

--Jim McCurdie writes of Friday night’s basketball brawl:” …carnage…of one of the most reprehensible, unfathomable, undeniably sickening events to darken a professional sports stage in decades.”

I suppose a fan getting punched in America outweighs soccer stadium deaths.

And carnage?

Don’t we at least need a little blood to properly apply that word?

--How infectious is violence?
Ask the brawling football players from yesterday’s SC vs Clemson game.

Ask George Bush’s security posse who got into a shoving match with the Chilean President’s security personnel late Saturday.

(That really happened).

--Ask any boy sitting around any bar Saturday night if he didn’t feel a little less willing to put up with a perceivable sign of disrespect from another boy.

--And all these sports reporters basking in their indignation, ask them when they can answer honestly if something primal in them doesn’t stir when they see the footage of Friday’s basketball game, Saturday afternoon’s football game, or Saturday night’s Presidential reception.