Sports fans a little to enthusiastic?

It's not uncommon to have 2 rival schools have tons of fans who attended neither school. Ohio State Univeristy and University of Michigan for example. I attend SMU but if you bother me during this game Be prepared to face my wrath. Another such rivalry is apparently the OU (Oklahoma University) Sooners and the Texas Long Horns. I was unaware of this until my brother emailed me a link to an article on the Sports Illustrated website. The article was entitled "Rivalry gone bad" and then the subtitle read "Longhorns fan nearly castrated in bloody bar scuffle". Now for the sake of those with a weak stomach I won't go into too much detail but 60 stitches later, the man is pressing charges.

In Oklahoma, this has been a hot topic on the radio stations. Many Sooner fans have called in to say that they believe that the Texas fan got what he deserved! I think that this is ridiculous! No one deserves what that poor man had happen to him! Neither man attended either school. Worse yet, they are grown men! I think America needs to be reminded that football is just a sport. It's just a game! And while it does provide alot of opportunities for alot of young men, the older fans need to remind themselves that it's just a game. The young men may have scholarships to play to help pay for school but most of the fans have to go back to the real world the next day and go to work. That may be difficult for the man who was nearly castrated.

I guess I am just appalled that something like this would happen over something so trivial as a football game. Most people don't get this excited over political or religious issues but football, well I guess thats a whole different ball game.

"The streets are flowing with blood"

In Baghdad, volunteers are picking up the dead. They give the dead a proper burial to maintain their dignity as they move to the afterlife. They wash them in sand and wrap them in cloth. Then they bury them, 2 to a grave. The bodies are photographed and entered into a computer so that one day they may be claimed. However, for many, they are too mangled, too burned, too disfigured to be recognized even by their own families.

No one should have to face that fate. Innocent men, women, and children are suffering because of this war. Their loved ones cannot identify them because the bodies are so mangled. There can never be a closing for the rest of the family because they do not know if their son or daughter is dead or alive. They may never know. I cannot believe that the American government has let this go on for so long. This is a democracy so shouldn't our voices be heard? Or are our voices muffled by the sound of preparations for war and the war already at hand?

Sheik Jamal al-Sudani, one of the leaders of the volunteer groups for burying the dead, told CNN"I only think about one thing: That one day, I will face the same fate as these people have faced, and will there be someone to take care of me and bury me, too?"

At the rate we're going, I think that that is a very prevalant question indeed.