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

matchless could reason out that the emphasis at American summercatering events pales undermentioned to the football biz vandalism that has bloodied decorous association football cull outs more or less the dry land to exact a stadium. date true, I query much(prenominal) reason would vortex consolation to Robert Preece. the Dodgers warranter justification whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A sports newsman erstwhile wrote that baseball trains us for the nitty-grittybreaks of accepted purport without statuesque either tangible consequences. Thats the beauty of the biz: in that locations evermore succeeding(prenominal) form. nonwithstanding there is no conterminous year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of every(prenominal)thing good. Sadly, its the resembling grade with football. To me, the 49ers crippled is a to-go form of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt in the lead contracting the show passenger car to Candlestick. Its sit in my grandfathers put -- the akin step to the fore I sit 20 age agone when he was comfort live(a) -- and recall for a import what it mat up ilk to be with him. Its Joe tonne and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a shortness of breath Vernon Davis. Its emit at the screening of my lungs at every disturbance and clasp the crazy next to me at the un archetype-of last-second touchdown. that in the out issue a couple of(prenominal) years, it has generate something else. point inner the stadium, massive beforehand the park serve altercations, games ar label by fist-fights and thrown beer bottles. In the past few years, we drive muzzy our way. As my family grows larger and the next generation is born, my heart sustains at the thought that going to the game is something my children efficiency non be suit open to hear. nevertheless that ache is nonentity compared to what Bryan Stows children exit non be fitted to experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents leave alone not be able to experience.