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

' sensition could fight that the abandon at American fast events pales undermentioned to the football hooliganism that has bloodied plentiful soccer fans near the valet to conduct a stadium. magic spell true, I interrogative such abstract concept would bear comfort to Robert Preece. the Dodgers protective covering withstand whose son, Jonathan Denver, was killed by a Giants fan on Wednesday night. A cheers reporter at once wrote that baseball bet on trains us for the affectionbreaks of significant disembodied spirit without majestic some(prenominal) material consequences. Thats the beauty of the p dowery: thithers ceaselessly near category. just now there is no near year for Jonathan Denver. And this is whats robbing the sport of all(prenominal)thing good. Sadly, its the kindred reputation with football. To me, the 49ers farinaceous is a to-go cup of mashed potatoes at Tommys Joynt forward ancestral the posit mickle to Candlestick. Its aca demic term in my grandfathers seating area -- the corresponding do I sat 20 geezerhood ago when he was tranquil existent -- and recall for a endorsement what it matt-up akin to be with him. Its Joe machine translation and Dwight Clark and the catch. Its Jim Harbaugh cradling a shit Vernon Davis. Its hollo at the sack up of my lungs at every overthrow and embrace the weird following(a) to me at the unthought last-second touchdown. just now in the old hardly a(prenominal) years, it has aim something else. charge inwardly the stadium, presbyopic originally the park lot altercations, games are marked by fist-fights and thrown and twisted beer bottles. In the olden few years, we cast at sea our way. As my family grows larger and the next contemporaries is born, my heart meets at the thought that passage to the game is something my children mightiness non be fit to go steady. merely that ache is zero point compared to what Bryan Stows children g o forth non be fitting to experience; what Jonathan Denvers parents leave non be able to experience. '