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Culture of Sports Brings out Ugliness
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Culture of Sports Brings out Ugliness
Published: January 27, 2012 3:00 a.m.
Journal Gazette
http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20120127/
SPORTS0203/301279960/1008/SPORTS
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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http://tinyurl.com/6nzbmy3
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Heres the thing, though: Its just a game you played as a kid in your
backyard.
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Eleven guys will hit 11 other guys in the mouth for three hours, and, when
its done, the vital interests of the nation will not have been advanced an
iota. Oh, lots of commerce will have happened, and the economy of
Indianapolis will have gotten a temporary bump. But the game itself will
have been only that, a game.
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I say all this because something happened the other day, and it wasnt the
first time its happened. A man had a football pried from his grasp at a
crucial point in a crucial game. And because of that, people took to their
Twitter feeds and Facebook pages to threaten his life.
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One even threatened the mans wife and kids. And hes unmarried and has no
kids.
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The mans name is Kyle Williams, who returns kicks for the San Francisco
49ers and whose father is White Sox general manager Kenny Williams. And
after this happened, Kenny Williams said it made him question the culture
of sports."
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Hes as right as a beach in January about that, of course. If a little late
to the party.
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Sports have always made some people in America insane; anything that can
compel a 40-something man to paint his face in the school colors and don
the jersey of a kid half his age suggests a frightening power to warp
judgment and corrode perspective. And thats not even bringing up, say, the
Dawg Pound in Cleveland, where grown men wear dog masks, throw dog
biscuits on the field and (one suspects) occasionally eat them.
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And so you can go back to the beginning of the last century and beyond and
find kindred souls to Kyle Williams this week. Death threats are nothing
new in sports; the difference now is how easily it is to invade someones
personal space with them.
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Youd love to get inside the heads of some of the sick twists who
threatened Williams this week, but it would probably be a fruitless
exercise. The impulse that drives them would remain inexplicable, and any
attempt to explain it would be like speaking Martian. It simply would not
compute.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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