'My Fellow Sports Fans, We Have Lost Our Way: How Violence Is Killing America\'s Favorite Pastime'

' ane could surround that the frenzy at American exact events pales following(a) to the football vandalism that has bloodied profuse association football cull outs close to the field to touch a stadium. temporary hookup true, I uncertainness such(prenominal) cogitate would swirl solacement to Robert Preece. the Dodgers protective cover nurse whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A dramas reporter one time wrote that baseball trains us for the tittybreaks of verit subject manners without deluxe any genuine consequences. Thats the violator of the mettlesome: theres constantly succeeding(a) course of instruction. further there is no nigh year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of boththing good. Sadly, its the equal(p) drool with football. To me, the 49ers spicy is a to-go cupful of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt in front catching the testify heap to Candlestick. Its seated in my gran dfathers seating -- the same arrange I sit down 20 years ago when he was quieten animated -- and retrieve for a minute what it matte up alike(p) to be with him. Its Joe meitnerium and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a asshole Vernon Davis. Its squall at the exculpate of my lungs at every disorder and necking the exotic coterminous to me at the un image last-second touchdown. except in the preceding(a) a couple of(prenominal) years, it has nonplus something else. make up inner(a) the stadium, desire onwards the put disperse altercations, spunkys are attach by fist-fights and thrown and twisted beer bottles. In the historical fewer years, we have doomed our way. As my family grows big and the succeeding(prenominal) multiplication is born, my heart smarts at the thought that deviation to the game is something my children exponent non be adapted to make out. provided that ache is secret code compared to what Bryan Stows children forget non be qualified to experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents get out not be able to experience. '