The Zoo Continues Unabated

I've always said it's a miracle that we haven't had another celebrity murder like the one of of Rebecca Schaffer.

Now, I think, I have to say it's an even BIGGER miracle in that the celebrity involved hasn't been a professional athlete.

The latest example of fans taking the sport way too damn far (Source:  Sports Illustrated, hat tip, as usual, to my anonymous source) comes from the Houston Texans.

Someone tried to confront Matt Schaub at his home and bitch at him about his (and the team's) poor play.

NFL Security has been contacted.  The Houston Police Dept. is involved, though they were not able to deal with the incident initially.  (Given the current state of the NFL fandom, if the guy's going to show up at the house, you have to be ready for anything.)

And people thought I was crazy.  I guess since the victim was a man (and a "tough" football player), the guy in his driveway shouting obscenities wasn't arrested on the spot.  (You know, "course of conduct intended to harass", blah blah blah, "with no legitimate purpose", yadda yadda yadda...)

Or is it the corollary of the sixth principle of Howard Cosell's "Sports Fan Syndrome", once again...

"The fan is sacred, even as sports are. He pays the freight, thus he is an entitled being. The media people tell him this every day. Therefore, once within the arena, his emotions whetted by the Sports Syndrome, the fan adopts what John Stewart Mill found to be the classic confusion in the American thought process, the confusion between Liberty and License—a natural and probable consequence of which is fan violence."

And he wrote this in 1985...