PC Universe fails to capture a metaphor.

[The Brain]

Originally posted by header
Lighten up people Jesus Christ.

Saturday after joyously watching Miami lose I had to listen to sportscasters bitch and moan about this guys comments...

\"It's war,\" Winslow said Saturday, his voice raised in the locker room. \"They're out there to kill you, so I'm out there to kill them. We don't care about anybody but this U. They're going after my legs. I'm going to come right back at them. I'm a ... soldier.\"

I don't see the big deal... :confused:

I believe the "big deal" is that, while we have young men and women thousands of miles away from home being shot at and killed on a regular basis, he is likening himself to being one of them.

Yes, I understand that we often talk about the "heat of battle" in sports, and that the gridiron is sort of a battlefield, but in the end, it is only a <i>game</i>. I really don't care how pissed he was that his team got beaten, but they were <i>not</i> out to kill him, nor should he have been set to kill his opponent ('cause you know, that could be misconstrued as premeditated murder).

Have people overreacted? Of course.

Should he have just kept his mouth shut from the get-go? Definitely.