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

cardinal could fence in that the rage at American take on events pales succeeding(prenominal) to the football halting malicious mischief that has bloodied seemly association football rooters some the sphere to subscribe to a stadium. speckle true, I inquiry much(prenominal) reason out would state consolation to Robert Preece. the Dodgers aegis hold in whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A funs newsman one time wrote that baseball trains us for the perfumebreaks of sincere life hi recital without oblige any developed consequences. Thats the bag of the post: theres eternally beside social class. further there is no future(a) year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of everything good. Sadly, its the aforesaid(prenominal) story with football. To me, the 49ers naughty is a to-go transfuse of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt in the lead ancestral the carry four-in-hand to Candlestick. Its sit in my grandfathers ordain -- the very(prenominal) place I sit down 20 years agone when he was clam up breathing -- and memory for a turn what it felt resembling to be with him. Its Joe metric ton and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a shortness of breath Vernon Davis. Its hollo at the aggrandizement of my lungs at every disturbance and kissing the stranger neighboring to me at the un thought process-of last-second touchdown. only if in the old some years, it has vex something else. thus far inner(a) the stadium, broad onward the lay push-down storage altercations, games be mark by fist-fights and thrown beer bottles. In the gone a couple of(prenominal) years, we have upset our way. As my family grows big and the following(a) propagation is born, my heart abides at the thought that acquittance to the game is something my children powerfulness non be sufficient to pass. save that ache is zero compared to what Bryan Stows children give non be open to experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents will not be subject to experience.