[kj] Celtic fan vs Dida attack

[Alexander Smith]

Need I say more? Sports fans = fucking idiots.

Alex in NYC



On Oct 5, 2007, at 9:37 AM, B. Oliver Sheppard wrote:


> [Here's something related: Texas Longhorns fan "nearly castrated"  

> by angry Oklahoma fan in Okla bar -- and the guy who "almost  

> castrated" the Texas fan is a church deacon and Army vet, to boot,  

> according to article. - Oliver]

>

>

> http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYCD4Gu5sgpDRm3qzPcAyhDNNLDQ

>

>

> Football Rivalry at Center of Bar Fight

> By SEAN MURPHY – Sep 11, 2007

>

> OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — To some Oklahoma football fans, there are  

> things that just aren't done in the heart of Sooner Nation, and one  

> of them is to walk into a bar wearing a Texas Longhorns T-shirt.

>

> That's exactly what touched off a bloody skirmish that left a Texas- 

> shirt-wearing fan nearly castrated and an Oklahoma fan facing  

> aggravated assault charges that could put him in prison for up to  

> five years.

>

> The shocking case has set off a raging debate in this football- 

> crazed region about the extreme passions behind a bitter rivalry.  

> Some legal observers have even questioned whether this case could  

> ever truly have an impartial jury.

>

> "I've actually heard callers on talk radio say that this guy  

> deserved what he got for wearing a Texas T-shirt into a bar in the  

> middle of Sooner country," said Irven Box, an attorney in this city  

> 20 miles from Oklahoma's campus in Norman.

>

> According to police, 32-year-old Texas fan Brian Christopher Thomas  

> walked into Henry Hudson's Pub on June 17 wearing a Longhorns T- 

> shirt and quickly became the focus of football "trash talk" from  

> another regular, 53-year-old Oklahoma fan Allen Michael Beckett.

>

> Thomas told police that when he decided to leave and went to the  

> bar to pay his tab, Beckett grabbed him in the crotch, pulled him  

> to the ground and wouldn't let go, even as bar patrons tried to  

> break it up. When the two men were separated, Thomas looked down  

> and realized the extent of his injuries.

>

> "He could see both of his testicles hanging on the outside of his  

> body," said Thomas' attorney, Carl Hughes. "He was wearing a pair  

> of white shorts, which made it that much worse."

>

> It took more than 60 stitches to close the wound, and police  

> interviewed Thomas at a nearby hospital emergency room.

>

> Beckett's attorney, Billy Bock, concedes that his client commented  

> about Thomas' shirt, but said it was just good-natured ribbing and  

> that he apologized to Thomas when it appeared to upset the Texas  

> fan. Later, Bock said Thomas approached his client at the bar and  

> threatened him.

>

> "My client is a little man, and this guy (Thomas) is 30 to 40  

> pounds bigger than him," Bock said. "He's bigger, stronger, younger  

> and probably faster, and he aggressively leaned in and touched my  

> client and threatened to beat him up. ... My guy was defending  

> himself and just took control of the situation."

>

> Thomas' attorney disputes Beckett's version.

>

> "That's total malarkey," Hughes said. "My client never said a word  

> to him. He got up to pay and when he paid and left a tip, the guy  

> grabbed him."

>

> Beckett, a 53-year-old church deacon, federal auditor and former  

> Army combat veteran, has pleaded not guilty. His next court  

> appearance comes Oct. 4, two days before the Sooners and Horns  

> tangle in their annual football game at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.

>

> Thomas, who once lived in Houston and became a Texas fan during the  

> heyday of star running back Earl Campbell, is still recovering from  

> his injuries but has returned to work as a meat cutter at a Sam's  

> Club warehouse store.

>

> Like Beckett and Thomas, many fans of the two college squads never  

> attended either university, but have come to identify so closely  

> with these teams that they attach banners to their cars, wear team  

> colors on game day and even have programmed their car horns to play  

> school fight songs.

>

> Dallas police Sgt. Andy Harvey, a 12-year veteran of the force,  

> said it's not uncommon for fights to break out between fans of the  

> two schools.

>

> "People are passionate about their teams and their universities,  

> and that's a good thing," he said, "but when you mix a real  

> passionate sports fan and then get a little alcohol in there,  

> sometimes it's not a good mix."

>

> On both Texas and Oklahoma fan Web sites, boosters trade familiar  

> tales of having their car tires slashed or windshields smashed for  

> sporting the opposing team's sticker in enemy territory.

>

> Assistant District Attorney Scott Rowland said the rivalry will  

> have no bearing on the way the case is prosecuted.

>

> "It appears that it played a part in the fight," he said, "but that  

> won't play any more of a role in our handling of the case than  

> would a fight over a girl or a car or a song on the jukebox."

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>

> Alexander Smith wrote:

> > No it doesn't. The appreciation of music isn't enforced and  

> ingrained into the fragile minds of the young by educational  

> institutions in as nearly a potent and MANDATORY a fashion as  

> sports are.

> >

> >

> >

> > Alex in NYC

> >

> >

> >

> > On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:42 AM, Flight Bringer wrote:

> >

> >> Music has more responsibility for "fucking up American society"  

> than what sports does , plus having a Country full of fuckwits  

> doesn't help...........

> >>

> >>

>

>

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