One of the worst things I've seen in a while

I think the youth football teams in town do a good job. It's hard to do -- sometimes there are some bad apples around. I don't know where this clip came from, but it's a good reminder of what can happen sometimes. Let's keep it real this spring/summer, youth baseball parents. Real civil, that is.

WARNING (in case anyone actually reads this): some dude really gets it. Like, hopefully he actually did something wrong, it's so bad.

http://www.break.com/index/pop_warner_parents_brawl.html

When goons go wrong

A few weeks ago I blogged about a hockey fight. That fight, like most fights, was more spectacle than anything else. Shoving, grabbing, some hitting here and there. No one was seriously hurt, no one required anything more than superficial medical attention. The fans cheered, the fans went home. Blessed be the name of the NHL.

Hockey fights are more often that not instigated by hockey goons, one-dimensional players whose speciality -- and, in many cases, sole reason for being in the leauge --- is to hurt people. Not permanently, of course, but to intimidate. Rule by force, as it were.

Chris Simon, a 12-year veteran of the league, is a hockey goon. With more longevity that most, too, because in addition to being a big mean slab of meat Chris Simon also has a decent shot.

But last week, like many of us now know, Chris Simon did something Very Bad.



Yeah. Not supposed to hit someone in the face with your stick.

To be fair, the man he hit is Ryan Hollweg, who is a completely one-dimensional goon, with the stats -- one goal, one assist, one hundred penalty minutes -- to back it up. He's also from LA. (begin obligatory 'joke') Lucky he didn't have his GUN (end obligatory 'joke').

Chris Simon was suspended 25 games for the hit -- which came exactly three years to the day after this one.



Todd Bertuzzi, the aggressor above, received an identical suspension for the hit. Steve Moore, the man Bertuzzi tried to kill, is still out of hockey because of it.

Bruins fans like me remember this hit all too well.



McSorley was done with hockey after this hit, a stain on an otherwise solid career. Don Brashear was back on the ice being a nuisance after not too long.

So which is worse? Who's more wrong? Who deserves the lifetime ban? Which incident proves violence has no place in organized sport?

I want to hear peoples' answers, but consider -- you still stand more risk of serious, permanent dehabilitating injury as a football player -- and that's on routine plays.

All I ever seem to blog about...

....are YouTube videos.

It makes for much easier posting, though I'd imagine it would make for less interesting reading.

But there it is -- I have nothing interesting to say. And here's some women in Lithuania taking a knee to the head! AHAHAHA



As seen on www.deadspin.com, as usual. Man, even when I plagiarize I'm predictable.

Come on, you Reds

I like Red things. Red Sox, Red Scares, Red rum. So it only stands to reason I would support the footballing Reds.

I like United things -- the United States, United Airlines, the United Nations. And while I don't mind Manchester (N.H), even though it, like Concord (N.H.) means certain death to anyone allergic to boredom, when Manchester and United become conjoined I feel a certain wrath.

I hate Manchester United Football Club.

On Saturday, the Reds -- that is, Liverpool Football Club -- take on Man Spew at home. Manch-vegas is 16 points ahead of LFC in the Premiership standings; a win would help us in that regard, but moreover, it would mean Man U losing. So come on, you Reds!!