Wild night for Alabama preps

https://www.al.com/news/2023/09/joh...irmingham-police-i-was-just-doing-my-job.html

 

https://www.alreporter.com/2023/09/...icer-isnt-an-excuse-to-make-situations-worse/

 

Nick Saban hits one dry season and the entire sport is thrown into chaos in this state.

Anniston’s homecoming game is called off after “multiple fights” and a shootout injured a student earlier this week. Anniston says their opponent forfeited. Elsewhere White Plains is claiming the game will be played at a future date.

https://www.al.com/highschoolsports...ame-canceled-in-wake-of-tuesday-shooting.html

 

That’s always been the case.

Just ask Cleveland State.

 

Game I was covering tonight was called halfway through the third quarter because of a fight between the teams. The score was 35-0 and there was a running clock since late in the second quarter, so the visiting coach (who had the zero) did the smart thing and pulled the plug. He was worried his guys were going to act dumb and make things worse (the fight started when one of his guys did a vicious facemask pull at the end of an interception return), so he told the refs to call the game.

While I was talking to the home team coach afterward, a bunch of fans started running from one end of the bleachers to the other. Somebody said someone was shooting. I was standing at the 50-yard line the whole time and never heard anything like that. Turns out there were two fights outside the stadium, and one student was arrested. His bad luck that he also had some weed on him. Someone told me someone was tazed — not by the cops, but by another person involved in the fight — but we haven't been able to confirm that. The fight on the field and the fight outside the stadium were not related, near as we can tell.
Considering other incidents that have been happening around the country, I'm very thankful it wasn't anything more.
Hell of a homecoming game.

 

Similar situation in Milwaukee.

 

"My 2A rights supercede your 2A high school football game."

The world is getting dumber with every day. And most of these guys are candy-ass wanna-be tough guys who disappear as soon as they flash the barrel. A few punks spoiling things for everybody because we're conditioned to expect the bullets to fly.

 

I'm guessing that, in a lot of these places, the people pulling guns and pulling the trigger are not card-carrying NRA members or applying for CCW permits.

 

Does that matter?

 

No, they're just dickheads with guns, the sort we read about every day anymore.

 

https://www.al.com/opinion/2023/09/...en-fighting-each-other-failing-our-youth.html

 

That's very good, Dixie. Thanks.