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In The New York Times today, there is an article discussing the death of a 20-year-old University of Minnesota-Morris student at the college's school homecoming game. Richard Thomas Rose was killed after a mob of football fans, celebrating their teams victory, rushed onto the field and pulled down a goal post (brilliant idea, don't try this at the next Pope John football game kids). Rose was pronounced dead at a hospital after attempts to revive him on the field failed. It is not exactly clear how he died, but it is assumed that it was a blow from the post falling down that killed him. He was the only person hurt. About 1,000 fans were watching the game and celebrating, and now one of those fans has died because of it.


This article reminded me of a tragedy that occured in Boston a little over a year ago after the Red Sox won the World Series. Victoria Snelgrove, a a 21-year-old journalism student at Emerson College, was an innocent bystander celebrating the victory calmly with some friends. Other college kids, however, were going wild in the streets of Boston to celebrate. The police couldn't handle the rowdy, out of control, crowd, so they resorted to using pepper spray bullets. [Why? One may never know] Snelgrove was accidently shot in the eye, which proved to be a fatal wound and led to her young death.


Two popular, lively college kids with bright futures ahead of them have died, and all for what?Both of these occurences reinstate the fact that students need to learn to control their excitement at sporting events, because innocent lives are constantly being lost for the short lived glory of sports teams.