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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/296584_cannon20.html

And if the kid had lasted another couple of years, joined the Marines, gone off to Iraq, and had his leg almost blown off in the line of duty, they'd lionize him.

I propose a new game: the United States Marine Corps vs. the vaunted Snohomish High School football team. We'll put the football players on one end of the field with all of their standard equipment, the Marines on the other end of the field with theirs, and see how things turn out.

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  • That is just sad. The kid almost loses his leg, endures several painful surgeries, and the town wants him to lose the others because they might not have a cannon fire during a TD? That's just sad.
    • Yep. Sports fandom is a type of mental illness.

      Okay, okay; other types of fandom can be too -- we're /.ers, we know this. ;) But only sports fans routinely get violent over their chosen fandom.

      This story is just a perfect storm of things that piss me off. As a veteran, as a medic, as a geek ... Seriously. Every single one of those motherfuckers should be sent to Iraq.
  • ...on all professional farm team team sports in the public schools for decades now. and that's all they are, farm leagues and every one knows it. Most destructive waste of time and tax payer money there is, and keeps the population dumbed down in the "bread and circuses" mode, starting when they are impressional ehcildren, so the elite can keep shafting them generation after generation. Now I don't care if kids want to play football or baseball or basketball, etc, just make those professional leagues and t
    • ..heh, I am rushing and going out the door to do more chores before the rain hits here. Just came in for a coffee and a little catching up on the intartubes and to check the weather map again. I took a lighting strike before and lived to tell about it so I am a little gunshy being caught far from home out in the field when I know T storms are coming.
    • The Athleto-Fascists (it's a new menace! Alert Bill O'Reilly and Ann Coulter immediately!) have managed to convince people that sports lead to financial gain, at all levels from high school to pro. It's bullshit, of course, but it's amazing how many otherwise intelligent people will earnestly tell you about the economic benefits of their city's new taxpayer-funded stadium. Great propaganda work.

      • Re: (Score:1)

        by zogger ( 617870 )
        It helps some with other conventions being held in them etc, but I really don't want tax payer money going to them, especially bond issues. If, as they claim, it is so good for the economy, then they can go outside town and buy up the land fair and square and build their own arena, AND privately build the roads up to handle the excess traffic. Can't tell ya how many times I wanted to go home from working at the georgia world congress center but some huge game was running and traffic was borked, let alone be
  • This is so ridiculous. I don't even know what to say.

    Except "decimated", hehe. I don't know at what point buffoons consistently misusing that word got it changed in the dictionary, but I still hate it.

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