Not Everyone Is Impressed: A Rape Town Rears Its Ugly Head Again

MSN has one of those "human interest" football stories today, and showed the abject disease that a town founded on rape and mafia culture still has today.

Nelsonville, Ohio has a community college that just started a football team.  Not surprising:  Chances are this is another town and college which have basically bent to the reality to that the only reason the college exists is to have football.  In fact, the school, Hocking College, was becoming an endangered species, and it's president felt football might be the only way to draw students to the school.  I guess being a regarded school in forestry wasn't cutting it anymore.

The team is actually doing quite well.  This is often quite surprising for such a new school, even as a two-year community college.  Because of their status, they are largely playing club teams and junior-varsity teams from other colleges.

The success of the school is being largely attributed to a quarterback for whom most people would not believe he was attending such a school.  Trent Mays is rolling over many lesser opponents on the field, and is glad for the opportunity to play football.

There's only one problem with all of this, other than football itself.  The fact that Trent Mays (and basically every football player in the city he came from) isn't literally strung up by his balls and put in prison for the rest of his sorry existence on this Earth is beyond me.

Why do I say that? 

Nelsonville is about a three-hour drive from Mays' old hometown...  Steubenville -- the infamous "Big Red" rape town where the football team has been allowed to run amok.

Mays was one of the few people who was sacrificed to try to placate a nation who should've justifiably burned that piece-of-shit community to the ground, doing two years in a juvenile lock-up for his role in the situation.

If there are towns who are worse applications of what we have become as a football-obsessed culture, you will find few worse than Steubenville.  And to know that the football team at a local community college is harboring this piece of shit (and that the town's police chief had something to do with the team's creation!) is just beyond the pale.

It turns out that Hocking College itself has had more than a number of problems, including scandals and staff layoffs.  Football, almost in a sickening manner, is being used to try to band-aid the situation -- and Mays' inclusion on the team has left more than a few scratching their heads.  In fact, there has already been at least one sexual assault being investigated covered up that has many believe Mays may well be involved.  (Part of the reason for the strike-through is that other football players on the new team are still being considered as being involved.)