Video: The disgraceful yet hypnotic Alabama high school basketbrawl
posted at 9:32 pm on February 18, 2009 by Allahpundit
I’m momentarily burned out on politics so you have to suffer with me. Players, fans, kids, adults, men, women, on the court, and in the stands: Everyone’s in on the action in this one. Probably the most insane melee I’ve ever seen at a sporting event — but then, I’m not a fan of English soccer. Eleven people have already been arrested on charges from assault to inciting a riot; trust me when I tell you that when you’re done watching, your only question will be, “Only 11?” Exit question: What’s the precise opposite of this clip in terms of sportsmanship? Exit answer: This.
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Who won the game?
Mallard T. Drake on February 18, 2009 at 9:35 PM
That is absolutely pathetic. No one has any goddamn self control anymore…pathetic.
ernesto on February 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM
A good reason to not wear saggy pants at ~:25
darclon on February 18, 2009 at 9:37 PM
Waiting for claims of racism
Defector01 on February 18, 2009 at 9:38 PM
Interesting phrasing…
elgeneralisimo on February 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM
He was in the melee on the floor, too. I hope he’s one of the 11; he certainly looked like he was going out of his way to fight wherever he could.
Midas on February 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM
The grieving player/missed free throw story is the perfect antidote for the disgust you will feel after watching the brawl.
Mallard T. Drake on February 18, 2009 at 9:39 PM
“We are the world…We are the children”
ronsfi on February 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM
A gym full of cowards.
Rocks on February 18, 2009 at 9:40 PM
Midas on February 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Oy. Comments will be messy….
crr6 on February 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
I can’t stop “thinking pink.”
the wolf on February 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
It’s not their fault. Society did that to them. You all should be ashamed of yourselves for judging them.
They’re only acting out against the redistributive injustice done to them by all the hateful opponents of Change.
spmat on February 18, 2009 at 9:41 PM
Win at all costs!
I wonder, actually, if this sort of thing will occur more frequently in the future. I’ve heard that the incidence of steroid use in the last 5 years has been increasing in HS.
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2009 at 9:42 PM
Also, I’m from Alabama and that’s pretty much awesome. I love the many, many embarrassing stories to come from my state.
John_Locke on February 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM
What set this off,
a Hillary supporter vrs.Obama supporter!
(Sarc!).
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM
If you guys need a minority to take the first real shot I will.
They’re acting like animals. The “chest thumping look how big and bad i am” kind. There’s no excuse whatsoever for that sort of degenerate behavior from THAT MANY PEOPLE.
Sure people fight, and many times they’re entitled to do so…but its like 1/2 the guys in that gym have no self control whatsoever…its absolutely amazing they dressed themselves and can attend school for days at a time.
ernesto on February 18, 2009 at 9:44 PM
Uhm…who won the game?
SouthernGent on February 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM
History has been made,
feel the tolerance,
feel the love!
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 9:45 PM
by the way, why do they include embed code if it doesn’t work?
Midas on February 18, 2009 at 9:46 PM
lol.
johnnyU on February 18, 2009 at 9:46 PM
From the GOOD story:
Good sportsmanship is not dead. For another example of it, just watch MMA, these guys beat the crap out of each other and when it’s al over, they hug and congradulate and edify.
Tony737 on February 18, 2009 at 9:53 PM
You won’t get any racial comments from me. I ain’t goin’ there.
DerKrieger on February 18, 2009 at 9:54 PM
BTW,this is only getting worse!
And,I really wonder,is there a
political angle to this,as to why
this game went KA-Bluey!
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 9:55 PM
Crap,forgot to add (going) to get worse,ugh!
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 9:57 PM
what is the problem…they are just hopen to change the score
winston on February 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Yeah, it’s a great story, I like this bit: “That letter became a big deal in DeKalb,” Rohlman said in the paper. “We got lots of positive calls and e-mails because of it. Even though we lost the game, it was a true life lesson, and it’s not one our kids are going to forget anytime soon.”
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2009 at 9:58 PM
If the teams have a rematch this season or play again next year, they probably need to do it in one of those aesthetically ugly/strategically secure gyms that parks the fans one floor above the court with only a limited number of ways to get down to court level.
jon1979 on February 18, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Good thing the score wasn’t 100 to 0…
katy on February 18, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Well it wouldn’t happen if the cracka-ass crackas weren’t keeping the brotha-man down.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 10:03 PM
…in the spirit of the Fairness Doctrine……
FireBlogger on Feb 18,2009 at 9:51PM.
FireBlogger: Well,to do this Fairness Doctrine right,after
the video of the baskebrawl,in fairness,the’ll
have to show a baseball game clearing the
benches,or both hockey teams having at it on
the ice!
If thats the crazy game the Liberals want to
play!:)
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 10:04 PM
How about………
……….. in a cage?
Seven Percent Solution on February 18, 2009 at 10:04 PM
Now show a soccor riot in the U.K. so we can see a bunch of white dudes doing the same thing.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Maybe its just a high school basketball thing?
ChenZhen on February 18, 2009 at 10:06 PM
I don’t think there was a single white guy in that whole gym.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 10:07 PM
We just had a brawl in our High School. Apparently it was black on black,,, some kind of gang thing or something. the whole school went into lock down. There had been fighting throughout the school the whole morning and then police came and several students attacked police. We had only received a recorded message from the school that “due to altercations, school would be dismissed early and you could pick up your students with proper ID.” No other info and the rumors were flying.
http://www.sungazette.com/
JellyToast on February 18, 2009 at 10:09 PM
Dudes don’t even know how to fight. Just wildly throwing punches like a bunch of retards.
nickj116 on February 18, 2009 at 10:12 PM
There’s an easy explanation for this: It’s Bush’s fault.
Michael in MI on February 18, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Good Gaia….is this the footage of Hitchens in Beirut?
Bishop on February 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
What movie?
(Can’t find a dang clip anywhere….)
reaganaut on February 18, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Hah, awsome.
javamartini on February 18, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Apparently none of these people listened to any of Obama’s transcendent and transformational speeches.
kagai on February 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
So does this mean both teams get expelled from school!
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM
I’m sure they were as bored as we were. Can anyone remember ANYTHING that one says?
SouthernGent on February 18, 2009 at 10:25 PM
Watched it again………
……. is it me, or did I miss any referee blow a whistle to end the play, call a foul, eject the players involved, and take control of the game,
………….. and where were the coaches, family members, community organizers, church “God Dam$ America” leaders, welfare workers, ACORN activists, Democratic Voter Registration volunteers, members of the local unions, teachers in the stands, off duty police officers with their lawyers, and census takers?
Seven Percent Solution on February 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Insanely stupid. What was entertaining, was the inability of many of them to run away from the fight. . .because their damn pants were down to their ankles.
cabbageheat on February 18, 2009 at 10:26 PM
I want to throw in some links about the importance of fathers in teaching young men to be men and not brutes.
This is a really long article, but worth your while to read: The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies. It states that 70 percent of black children are born to single mothers. The writer goes back to the days of LBJ and a report done by Daniel Patrick Moynihan and outlines some history of the last 40 years.
Here’s an interview, Dad in the City: The importance of urban fatherhood in which Wilcox states,
Finally, a website called National Fatherhood Initiative. This is their research page.
INC on February 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Before I clicked the thread, I knew that people wouldn’t be able to resist making this about race. And we wonder why Republicans are branded as racist too often.
Some of you really need to engage your brain prior to using the keyboard. That a thought popped into your head doesn’t imply that it needs to be typed and posted.
Hollowpoint on February 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
You’re talking to someone who HATES PC-nazis. But come on, I’m just showing some intellectual honesty. In the states we have basketball riots. In the UK they have soccer riots.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Geez…just what DeathToMediaHacks needs after our other race debate. Death, just ignore this one.
I did see several black officers do the best they could being severely outnumbered and come out with several guys in handcuffs. Christ I hope no one took thier young kids to the game.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2009 at 10:30 PM
“today is the day the earth began to heal itself…”
Johnson on February 18, 2009 at 10:31 PM
Southern Gent, after re-reading the post that you were referring to I can see why you think I’m being some white-guilt kind of guy. Perhaps I should have worded it differently.
I was basically saying that before there is too much “race” crap entered into this whole thread that keep in mind the soccer riots in europe.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Fred Thompson in Hunt for Red October
May be heard here.
http://www.rosswalker.co.uk/movie_sounds/hunt_for_red_october.htm
May be watched but not heard here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur-dYkJ2AAY
Ted Torgerson on February 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Some of you really need to engage your brain prior to using the keyboard. That a thought popped into your head doesn’t imply that it needs to be typed and posted.
Hollowpoint on February 18, 2009 at 10:29 PM
Take your own advice, unless you care to start prognosticating on the racial heritage of all the posters here from a random comment.
Bishop on February 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Liberals live in denial of truth because truth hurts.
It isn’t the black color of skin, or any color of skin, that makes someone violent, it’s thugishness. Thugishness is just disproportionately representied by certain people. And no, it’s not because of The Man holding anyone else down.
Grafted on February 18, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Heh, ya I saw the clip, was disappointed at the lack of sound.
I should work on my own library.
reaganaut on February 18, 2009 at 10:37 PM
I wish this sort of thing happened on the floor of Congress when the two sides dispute the content of a bill.
You want to be a senator? You sure?
Bishop on February 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Not going to go there…wouldn’t be prudent. Anyways, I guess I will continue to listen to the depressing sounds of the Smiths as civilization collapses around me, and hope for a snow day.
theboss on February 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Hope and Change !!!!
ohiorebel on February 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Aren’t those your favorite constituents?
Theworldisnotenough on February 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
The ultimate truth is that there is a thug culture, and there probably always has been? Wonder how acurate the Gangs of New York movie is.
I think people are just too uptight anymore.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
I just spit milk all over my monitor, thanks.
Johnson on February 18, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Awesome links bro thank you.
Theworldisnotenough on February 18, 2009 at 10:41 PM
I blame George W Bush
custer on February 18, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Not going to go there…wouldn’t be prudent. Anyways, I guess I will continue to listen to the depressing sounds of the Smiths as civilization collapses around me, and hope for a snow day.
theboss on February 18, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Shouldn’t you be listening to Springsteen?
Bishop on February 18, 2009 at 10:44 PM
You’re welcome. I’m glad someone noticed!
It’s a family and fatherhood problem. Young men really need responsible dads in the home!
(They also need moms and I’m one, BTW).
INC on February 18, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I wish this sort of thing happened on the floor of Congrees…
Bishop on Feb 18,2009 at 10:38PM.
Bishop:Now that would be priceless,I kid tho,but I could
just picture the live coverage on tv!
Well,folks at the rate this is going,it looks
like the Republicans have flattened the Liberals,
which means the bill won’t pass,or at least in this
session!haha:)
canopfor on February 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Eric Holder should be proud…
D2Boston on February 18, 2009 at 10:46 PM
My answer to the exit question would have been the women’s softball team who carried an injured player around the bases.
Just A Grunt on February 18, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I have to say moms should stop enabling men and their sons to be utterly pathetic. And men need to volunteer more.
Theworldisnotenough on February 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Your son was out there throwing elbows? Hope you put him in timeout.
ClassicCon on February 18, 2009 at 10:48 PM
Education at work. Welcome to urban America!
xander569 on February 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Nice balance, AP.
NoamSayin on February 18, 2009 at 10:51 PM
I agree.
It’s a little too late for a kiddie timeout to have any effect on those guys.
My son has both dad and mom in the home and we did our best to make sure he had love, discipline and training at an early age. He’s now a great young man.
I wanted to mention those links above because I feel so strongly about how important fathers are to their sons.
INC on February 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Looks like a day in Japan’s Parliament.
I just love all the pause from fighting for a few seconds so I can pull my pants up, again. LOLOL
Jamewah on February 18, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I will go out on a limb and say something controversial. I believe the negative influences from some forms of rap or hip-hop coupled with not having a father figure is responsible for what we just saw. It is not so much racial as it is cultural. Garbage in, garbage out.
carbon_footprint on February 18, 2009 at 10:59 PM
I like the way you think.
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2009 at 11:02 PM
Spirit of 1776, thanks.
INC on February 18, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Very funny. You could have also used India.
Dr. Manhattan on February 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM
If I was an owner of a belt company I would use this video in my commercial.
DethMetalCookieMonst on February 18, 2009 at 11:07 PM
carbon
I agree it is culture. But the most powerful culture is family culture. If culture is hollow to them, and family alien, they will turn to their peers, and to their worst instincts.
It’s a failure of society, it’s true! But a large part of that society is the family.
Dr. Manhattan on February 18, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Have you been away? I couldn’t watch the brawl but I loved the story that was up on Headlines earlier. That’s the world I wish we could give to all the kids in the U.S.
Cindy Munford on February 18, 2009 at 11:08 PM
My nephews would be on punishment until age 65.
baldilocks on February 18, 2009 at 11:09 PM
For what it’s worth we might try writing advertisers and television shows and ask them to stop portraying men in general and fathers specifically as ignorant dolts. Men are under valued in our country.
Cindy Munford on February 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Today or do you mean intellectually absent? :D
Absolutely.
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2009 at 11:11 PM
There is nothing sacred anymore. Nothing to aspire to, for these kids. They don’t think themselves capable of the very things it would take for them to truly respect themselves as members of society. And these mental chains come from all around honestly I pity them. Everyone in that brawl is capable of greatness. The allegory of the cave comes to mind.
Dr. Manhattan on February 18, 2009 at 11:12 PM
“the region revealed through sight — the ordinary objects we see around us — to the prison home, and the light of the fire in it to the power of the sun. And in applying the going up and the seeing of what’s above to the soul’s journey to the intelligible place, you not mistake my expectation, since you desire to hear it. A god doubtless knows if it happens to be true. At all events, this is the way the phenomena look to me: in the region of the knowable the last thing to be seen, and that with considerable effort, is the idea of good; but once seen, it must be concluded that this is indeed the cause for all things of all that is right and beautiful — in the visible realm it give birth to light and its sovereign; in the intelligible realm, itself sovereign, it provided truth and intelligence — and that the man who is going to act prudently in private or in public must see it”
-Plato
Dr. Manhattan on February 18, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Game dedicated to Peggy the Moocher.
Texyank on February 18, 2009 at 11:17 PM
No, I meant I hadn’t seen posts by you lately.
Cindy Munford on February 18, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Thank you.
One will rarely see an American kid of any race who comes from a traditional family engage in such behavior. But the dearth of traditional families among black Americans can be viewed as a “Mission Accomplished” situation for the Left.
I contend that the Left set out to destroy black American families, and, therefore black people in general, back in the day (sixties).
With Obama sneaking in that welfare clause in the porkulus bill, he is merely striking the death blow. It’s a blow which will further stir up strife between races and is part of the the war against American society in its present form.
Those who would exacerbate that rift are just playing the Left’s game, being tools of the Left. Congratulations.
baldilocks on February 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM
Yeah, well I am/was burned out. Seemed like the same arguments over and over. I like to talk about stuff, but only if it stimulates thought for me and lately felt like just repeating myself, especially wrt Palin. Nice of you to notice though, I’m flattered.
Spirit of 1776 on February 18, 2009 at 11:25 PM
For all of the people on here making racist insinuations about this video, see here and here…
…How about we not make assumptions about people based on their violent behavior, huh?
underceij on February 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM
baldi, you’re welcome.
I agree with everything you said. Kids from traditional families don’t behave like that.
I was horrified to read that welfare was going to rear its head again. Either Obama doesn’t care about the impact on families or he hasn’t even thought through the consequences and he’s only concerned about building power.
INC on February 18, 2009 at 11:27 PM
baldilocks on February 18, 2009 at 11:21 PM
This did start in the 60′s. Right after the civil rights bill. Good luck trying to change 40 years of indoctrination.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on February 18, 2009 at 11:32 PM
Sadly I think you both are correct. It’s going to
get ridiculously ugly.
Texyank on February 18, 2009 at 11:33 PM
“hup two three four
hup two three four
what are we fighting for?
CRADLE TO GRAVE. CRADLE TO GRAVE.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on February 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM
The culture of violence.
Johan Klaus on February 18, 2009 at 11:35 PM
I would kiss a small part of the one’s ass if he would just say “alright black folk, time to grow up, put down your animosity towards whites and QUIT FIGHTING AND KILLING EACH OTHER”. Of course if he did that then they would turn on him. Hmmm, maybe a GOP strategy in the works.
FlyoverJ-HawkFan on February 18, 2009 at 11:39 PM
Absolutely. If a family is without a father than the mother is having to earn the living on her own and raise the kids. All this, and having to compete with a musical lifestyle that drives negative self-image and attitudes into the heads of the kids. It makes it near impossible to win that fight.
You are a treasure. Always.
carbon_footprint on February 18, 2009 at 11:40 PM
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