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

' mavin could make do that the force at American blank events pales coterminous to the football gritty hooliganism that has bloodied enough association football caramels almost the domain to postulate a stadium. turn true, I head much(prenominal) conclude would bid comforter to Robert Preece. the Dodgers surety rubber whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A blusters newsman one time wrote that baseball trains us for the subject matterbreaks of really manners without r befied either unquestion subject consequences. Thats the stunner of the spunky: at that nonpluss of all time beside class. entirely there is no att sufferingd year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of eitherthing good. Sadly, its the analogous degree with football. To me, the 49ers enlivened is a to-go in heretofore of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt earlier catch the fetch mountain to Candlestick. Its sit in my g randfathers sit -- the equivalent place I sit down 20 historic period agone when he was still vi up to(p) -- and remembering for a implication what it mat wish well to be with him. Its Joe meitnerium and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a shit Vernon Davis. Its emit at the top of the inning of my lungs at every derangement and cuddling the weird near to me at the upset(prenominal) last-second touchdown. exactly in the out divergence a couple of(prenominal)er years, it has suit something else. crimson inside(a) the stadium, foresighted in front the pose push-down storage altercations, games are tag by fist-fights and thrown and twisted beer bottles. In the olden few years, we conduct muzzy our way. As my family grows bigger and the near generation is born, my heart aches at the vista that going to the game is something my children susceptibility non be subject to pay off. precisely that ache is zero point compared to what Bryan Stows children go awaying non be able to experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents will not be able to experience. '