(Deadspin) (Video at the link)
Oh, you had to know it was coming when Aqib Talib did it so blatantly, but the Minnesota State High School League wants words with Antwan Cobble of Minneapolis North, who decided to use a late-game tackle to use three fingers to try to take out the eye of Minneota's Isaac Hennen.
The coach said he doesn't teach that stuff, and he's probably right: THE NFL DOES!!!
If we had real laws in this country, that'd be enough to send Cobble to jail, for a long time. We have a crime called "mayhem" here in California where, if you try to take somebody's eye out, that's pretty much it for you.
But in a year that's completely out of control for high-school football, you had to know that a championship game (and that was that division's state title game, part of the day-long Prep Bowl of seven such contests) would bring out the worst in Football Man.
Only the cameras caught it -- the refs missed it completely. As I said, the state sanctioning body wants to talk to Cobble, but no word yet on any further punishment.
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