Thursday night marked the season opener for College Football. With great games on all night and a highly anticipated #14 Boise State Vs. #16 Oregon matchup. The game proved Boise is a legit contender and can make a run at an undefeated season leading to a BCS game. However, the game ended with a confrontation gives all athletic directors have nightmares. Oregon’s LeGarrette Blount sucker punched Boise State’s Byron Hout after Hout slapped Blount’s shoulder pads and talked some shit. Granted Hout should never have touched another player especially after the final whistle has blown, but Blount crossed a huge line by throwing a haymaker. If this was not enough, Blount was escorted out of the stadium by cops and tried going after the Boise State fans in the stands. Blount, a senior who is a vital piece of Oregon’s team, has been suspended by his school for the remainder of the season and has tarnished the Ducks’ brand of football and ended his college career all in one fell swoop.
I’m sure you all have seen your fair share of bar fights. The two smallest kids in the bar with the biggest mouths end up throwing down and what ensues resembles a middle school girls’ catfight, the two biggest dudes who look like they were built in a lab going at it, or just a good old fashion brawl. Most of these fights tend to be from two things: 1. Alcohol and 2. A brief visit to tough guy camp (fraternity letters given out at arrival). Let’s face it, though these sucker punching cheap shot fights never turn out any good, you not only blind side a guy but you look like a bona fide scumbag throwing a shot when the other guy is not looking.
There are always going to be bar fights at every college campus (that’s what happens when you throw a bunch of drunk people in a small location and a third of them have not had their fix of protein or HGH for the day) but if it’s going to happen, don’t do it the cheap shot way. There should be a nationwide system put into play with cheap shots. If I were running the show, a cheap shot would lead to three solutions.
1) You get to sleep with the other guy’s girlfriend – This could possibly be worse than a cheap shot but like they say “an eye for an eye”
2) Shaming for a semester – No matter if the person is passed out drunk on a Saturday night or comfortably tucked into their bed before a final, you get to shame them any way you want. Antiquing, drawing genitals on their face, buzzing off a piece of their hair, duct taping them to the ceiling…all fair game.
3) Personal Pledge – Want your room cleaned or dinner brought to you ( for all other scenarios use http://www.precioustimeny.com/ for these services), maybe even someone to just drink a weird concoction you just brewed up?A personal pledge will surely cut down on the amount of sucker punching going on because it really doesnt get any worse than this on a college campus.
Take a lesson from Oregon’s Blount; he will miss a full season, ruin a promising year for his entire school at the end of only the first game, and now falls under the category as a player with baggage. With this wise lesson out there, and it being the start of the semester, go out enjoy the first few weeks of madness and try to keep it civil people. If all else fails you could always sleep with the other guys girlfriend.
