Bad Words at the World Cup

Just a quick shoutout to soccer hero, Zidane. Thanks for teaching me that the proper way to respond to insults is with swift violence. Oh and preferably of the sucker-punch variety. Way to use your head.

Amanda over at Pandagon, seems to be putting a good part of the blame on possibly racist, potty-mouth, harrasser, Materazzi. Come on people, it's the World Cup. You play there, you play professionally. Don't want people talking shit to you? Show them it doesn't hurt your game. Materazzi won in every sense of the word, he outsmarted Zidane, and the reason he could is that Zidane was insufficiently professional. End of story. Zidane should have channeled his rage into trying to score, or just held it in and had a heart to heart with his therapist after the game. We all do stupid things when we're provoked, but Zidane let down his team and his country...for what? But Lanky, he was harrassed! Tough luck, that's part of the job, baseball players get it worse from the people in the stands. There's one bad guy in this picture and if you can't guess who it is, imagine walking into a court and explaining to the judge that you were right to assault someone because he said something mean about your family. Bad, silly bald Frenchman, bad.

I have a hard time reading Pandagon. It's too painfully politically correct for me. This post is amusing though.