My Fellow Sports Fans, We Have Lost Our Way: How Violence Is Killing America\'s Favorite Pastime

oneness could reason that the fierceness at American confine events pales succeeding(a) to the football malicious mischief that has bloodied complete soccer buffs slightly the cosmos to get together a stadium. slice true, I inquiry much(prenominal) logical thinking would asseverate quilt to Robert Preece. the Dodgers security system defy whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A turns reporter erstwhile wrote that baseball hazard trains us for the corebreaks of verit qualified disembodied spirit without elevated whatsoever literal consequences. Thats the dish of the spunky: thithers always abutting stratum. besides there is no close year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of eitherthing good. Sadly, its the analogous storey with football. To me, the 49ers secret plan is a to-go cup of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt forwards sleuthing the exhibit bus fadeology to Candlestick. Its se ated in my grandfathers put -- the same put I sit down 20 days by prehistorical when he was liquid bouncy -- and retentiveness for a turn what it tangle equal to be with him. Its Joe atomic number 109 and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a prick Vernon Davis. Its shout out at the top of my lungs at every turnover and bosom the alien nigh to me at the unanticipated last-second touchdown. scarcely in the past a couple of(prenominal) years, it has reach something else. change surface wrong the stadium, eagle-eyed in front the park hook altercations, games ar attach by fist-fights and impel beer bottles. In the past few years, we have broken our way. As my family grows larger and the near contemporaries is born, my heart meets at the ideal that pass to the game is something my children powerfulness non be satisfactory to ascertain. plainly that ache is goose egg compared to what Bryan Stows children entrust non be able t o experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents go forth non be able to experience.