LAWRENCE, Kan. — Just in case you missed it. The Kansas versus Kansas State game was marred by an outright street fight at the end of a 21-point blowout win by the Jayhawks.
With Kansas’ Silvio De Sousa literally dribbling out the clock up 22 points. Kansas State’s DaJaun Gordon stripped him and went to the rack for a lay up. De Sousa recovered and smacked his shot at the rim. Then he stood over ole boy taunting him.
At that point it was Chris Brown up in that piece “On and Poppin’!” Boyz started pushing, showing and throwing punches as both benches cleared. It was like and old school project street fight.
At one point De Sousa, who’d already thrown several punches, picked up a stool holding it over his head like he was about to hit a boy with it. One of the assistant coaches had to grab it from him. Talk about being completely out of control.
Not only were the players out of control all in the stands but they were in the disabled section of the arena putting fans in harms way.
Now let’s keep it real or all the way 100, whichever comes 1st! This is a prime of example of parents no longer parenting. I grew up in one of the most dangerous places in America, Gary, Indiana. I grew up with all types of gangstas, thugs and short tempered cats. Things could pop off at any moment but there was always decorum in the pop off.
What does that mean playa? It means that even though boyz wanted to fight at the game, in class or in front of the teacher etc. They always remembered that they were afraid of somebody at home. You can use the word afraid or respect in this situation because they mean the same thing.
When you’re afraid of Big Momma or your dad, Uncle LeRoy, cousin Bam-Bam or somebody at home you aren’t fighting on national television embarrassing the entire family name. Now you might fire on that dun in front of the locker room or when he’s trying to get on the bus but you aren’t throwing punches in the arena and then holding up a stool to hit a boy with. That’s not happening.
You aren’t clearing the bench because some clown started a fight on the floor. Not when you’re afraid of somebody at home. Not when you’ve got to answer to your ole man when you get back to campus. No way. By the time I set foot in my dorm room my ole man would have been waiting for me and God knows what he would have done to me.
However, when you’ve been allowed to do whatever you want to do growing up with no consequences, you act like a wild animal because you can.
When I was a shorty playing Pop Warner Football for the Gary Steelers my older brothers were on the Junior Batam team and they were undefeated and un-scored on. They played a team from Glen Park that finally scored a touchdown on them. One of the players on their team had a brother on the Glen Park team that was talking trash because they’d scored on the team that hadn’t given up a touchdown all year.
In his emotion he literally fired on his brother on the field and both teams cleared the benches. Well…everybody but my brothers. Why? Because they were afraid of my ole man period, point blank. They didn’t move!!! They allowed everybody on the team to jump up to defend that dude but they weren’t moving. That’s called parenting playa.
And guess what? My brothers didn’t care what their teammates thought about them not helping in the fight. The fight was stupid and it didn’t make sense to get in it. We knew that it didn’t make sense to get in trouble with Pops because somebody else was an idiot. That made NO sense.
Not only should the Big 12 suspend both teams for several games but the dun the started the entire riot should be suspended for the rest of the season. Kids have to learn that being an adult just looks easy. You can’t just do what you want to do because you want to do it. That’s what wild animals do.
The difference between a wild animal and a human being is the ability to reason and not very many people showed that ability on Tuesday night in Lawrence. Stop me when I start lyin’!
Playas Thesaurus:
- Dun: noun – the person in question, dude, guy, etc. It’s whoever I’m talkin’ about and its non-gender specific.
2) Ole boy: noun – the person that I’m currently talkin’ about.
3) To fire on: verb phrase – to swing on a person without notice. To sneak punch a boy.
