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The Threat of Gangsta-Kegger Culture

Those Americans with televisions, which is all of us, haven't been able to avoid multiple replays of the on-field brawl last Saturday night in the midst of the football game between Miami (Fla.) and Matchbook State, er, Florida International University. Unlike most sports fights, players on both teams did their very best/worst to really hurt each other during the melee, making it great television indeed.

We're now deep into the pretentious tut-tutting stage of post-brawl analysis, commentary made more tedious than usual by Miami's well-earned reputation for flashy if increasingly empty street bravado. Before the Monday morning sociologists go off the deep end, they should note the Miami-FIU rumble wasn't the only bench-clearing brawl in college football that day. The other one took place between those notorious outlaw programs, Holy Cross and Dartmouth.

Visiting team Holy Cross won the game 24-21 in overtime and began celebrating in the middle of the field. Some Dartmouth players took exception to this, and the fireworks began.

One can only imagine the Dartmouth rallying cry.

"This is OUR carriage house! NOBODY does that in our carriage house!"

posted by Michael Gee @ 9:56 AM