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By which I reference not the University of Alabama, but the state of the sport in general under the extremist sway of Saban Mania in the Yellowhammer State, wherein two of the sport's most fanatical pursuits - the aforementioned game of football and shooting guns - came together Saturday in depressingly unsurprising fashion:

WETUMPKA, Ala. --  Three Prattville High School students and a Montgomery teenager have been charged with murder in a fatal shooting that apparently occurred after an argument over whether Wetumpka or Prattville has a better high school football team.
Elmore County Sheriff Bill Franklin added this...
"I have spoken with the parents of these young men and told them their sons need to stay in jail for a while," he said. "That's for their own protection. I don't want anybody from Wetumpka thinking they can ride over to Prattville Saturday or Sunday night and settle the score."

...which makes him sound like Atticus Finch outside the jail, guarding against would-be vigilantes. By god, somebody has to stand up for civilization here.


Now you best just turn right on around, Wetumpka, and we'll settle this on the field!

(Via The Legend of "Bully" Van De Graaff)

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I realize this is a football blog and as such this qualifies as a story, but it's unfair to characterize it as a case of obsession in the state of Alabama.  More than likely, the boys were looking for a fight and this was as good a reason as any to have one.  The involvement of football in this is arbitrary at best.  This incident is the same as fighting over colors or "keepin' it real."  Which is to say an indictment of attitudes that encourage this kind of largely random violence rather than a crime of passion for football.

by tideball on Aug 13, 2007 1:40 PM EDT reply actions  

um...
I agree, tideball. It's hyperbole.

by SMQ on Aug 13, 2007 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions  

not quite
The "extremist sway of Saban Mania in the Yellowhammer State" is hyperbole.  Associating it in anyway with the unfortunate incident in Wetumpka is just specious reasoning.

by tideball on Aug 13, 2007 2:12 PM EDT reply actions  

can't argue with that
Specious reasoning was the point.

by SMQ on Aug 13, 2007 2:48 PM EDT up reply actions  

my bad
kind of new to the whole reading thing.

by tideball on Aug 13, 2007 4:27 PM EDT reply actions  

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