What's that you say?
Is there a way to combine an unhealthy percentage of the South's insane affection with guns and their insane over-valuing of college athletics over, say, college?
Why, yes, yes indeed there is.
A University of Alabama football fan allegedly shot and killed a fellow fan on Saturday after the team's dramatic loss to bitter in-state rival Auburn.
Adrian Laroze Briskey, 28, was charged with murder for allegedly
fatally shooting Michelle Shepherd, 36, in a Hoover, Ala. parking lot.
According to the victim's sister, Briskey was incensed that Shepherd was
taking Alabama's loss in stride.
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"She said we weren't real Alabama fans because it didn't bother us that
they lost. And then she started shooting," the victim's sister, Nekesa
Shepherd, told the Associated Press.
And believe it or not, other Southerners wanted to
join in.
Florida State fans were very happy with their team's 37-7 drubbing of
Florida over the weekend. But none of them were feeling as emotionally
charged as 37-year-old Brant Brown, who according to police celebrated
his team's victory by threatening a bar full of Florida fans with a
machete.
What kind of southerner was Mr. Brown, you don't bring a knife to a Gun-State?
Rising Hegemon
To give credit where it is due, a machete is the Bushmaster semiautomatic of the knife world.
ReplyDeletetrue. darwin would be pleased.
ReplyDeleteProof that the true value of athletics is that it keeps the city of Tuscaloosa from going to actual war with the city of Auburn (or Cleveland with Pittsburgh, Chicago with Green Bay, or Dallas with, well, everyone).
ReplyDeleteRe: Dan F: That was one of the points in the classic novel ECOTOPIA. The breakaway state established quite violent sports to vent off the natural???? violence of young men (and women) and group identity in a...relatively...harmless way.
ReplyDeleteInteresting concept.