I don't know if there's a punishment harsh enough for this type of offense...

.... but something my friends alerted me to has got me up in arms.

So let's reconstuct this latest affront to organized sport.

High school football game last Friday night between Warren County and Hancock County schools in Georgia, in Hancock County's school.

After Warren County wins (and by a fairly significant margin), the team finds the doors locked to their dressing room.

The next thing which happens, all Hell breaks loose.

The visitors are jumped by the home team, and their coach had to have his skull reconstructed (including crushed bones around his eye) after, in trying to break it up, he gets smashed over the head with a helmet.

Apparently, according to another report, a number of helmets were used.

The two teams are bitter rivals, and, apparently, there had already been calls, near the end of the game, for a "quick escape plan".

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OK, let's get real about this for a second:

Point of fact one: This was a premeditated attack.

Someone was ordered to trap the visiting team outside their locker rooms and have them set up for an ambush. This, almost certainly (though not 100%) indicates further staff involvement in the incident.

Point of fact two: This probably means it was an institutional attack.

Whether it was an act of the school district itself, or of the people therein, this is clearly an act which was not just a football team run amok. This was a pre-planned and pre-executed situation.

Point of fact three: I'm not sure a punishment exists which could fit this type of crime without dissolving the Hancock County Schools.

This was a dire situation which should result in the arrest and felony conviction of every kid involved (and, given what we've read, that appears to be the entire football team, plus probably their coach, whoever was ordered to lock the door, and almost-certainly others.

There needs to be a community-wide investigation of these animals, because: If they're doing this, God only knows what they are doing behind closed doors to their own students...

At minimum:

• Absolute decertification for all sports by the Georgia High School Association. Minimum three-year death penalty -- the school cannot apply for recertification in any sport until all students would've graduated.
  
• Felony charges and long prison terms for all involved. Adult prison.
• No one involved in the incident is allowed anywhere near a football game again. Life ban.
• A full investigation of the school district by the state and Federal Departments of Education to find out just how the Hell this could get so bad.

And then we need to re-examine football in this country. If we're letting these fuckers run amok like a bunch of wild animals, will it shock me, eventually, if we find that someone had a knife on them and tried to kill somebody in that riot?

And if this is what's happening in this type of a school, do we really need this administration and school district to continue to exist?