2001-02-26 - Night
Apparently I�m the last person in the universe to hear about the guy in a wheelchair who got tossed/pushed/knocked over on his head at an XFL game a couple of weeks ago. How the hell did I miss that? I�m usually all over stories of gimp abuse.
The more I think about it, though, the more I come to believe that the whole thing was staged. This is the XFL, after all, brainchild of the same guy who made LET�S GET READY TO RUMBLLLLLLLLE!!!! part of our national discourse. I bet the XFL folks were simply getting impatient for one of their players to get killed on the field and dreamed up the gimp-tossing incident as a way to garner some much-needed publicity while they wait.
And what makes the victim here so special, anyway? The news report says he wound up in a puddle of blood and beer with a gash in his head. Isn�t that how all football fans wind up after a game?
If, in fact, the wheelchair section at the L.A. Coliseum doesn�t have a railing to keep you from rolling off the edge, well, that�s just plain stupid. But if it turns out that this dude actually got into an altercation with one of the other fans and didn�t have anything to grab hold of to keep from falling, well, that�s even stupider. I�ve been in fights with drunken assholes before and I�ve found that he�s always got a couple of things I can reach easily that will put him in his place right away. A simple snatch-yank-and-half-twist maneuver and even the biggest opponent ends up on the floor crying for mommy.
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