Just ran across this article about a hockey brawl. Not news, right? Well, it was a game of eight year olds!
Strangely enough, though, I don't really read this as an "Everything that's wrong with sports in our era" article. The main screwed up thing about contemporary sports is its valorization of the "Look at me! Look at me!" attitude (see Susan Faludi for more of this). No, this is more "what's wrong with society. However, at least it wasn't the parents yelling and brawling this time, so it might be progress.
If there were ever a need for a YouTube video, it would be for this.
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