I’m sure most people are aware of what happened between Miami University and Florida International University at a recent college football game. The more I hear the commentary and fallout from the incident, the more upset I get at how Miami is conducting their “punishment".

I hear from the President of Miami U. that they don’t want to throw anyone under the bus for this incident as they may have not known better. I hear from Michael Irvin that 18-19 year old kids don’t have that sense of how wrong what they did was….

I call bull.

How in your right mind can anyone consider a full-on gang fight in college football something you DON’T DO? Where is there precedent that this is what is “ok”, or acceptable!? Where is this case for the need for some “education”?

Oh, it must be in a Video Game! Right! If all “bad behavior” that kids exhibit in the real world can be attributed to a wasted youth in front of a video game, then this kind of behavior must be baked into the games itself!

I launched up my Madden and my NCAA football games to find the “Gang-Fighting-Mini-Game”. Nothing. I couldn’t even find a PG version of a “fight” mini game. Nonplussed, I look up faqs, cheat codes…tried the up, down, up down, left, right, left, right, A, B, A, B and….nothing. I even looked for the gang-rape and ultra-violence mini games.

In fact…it seemed to me that the games were actually showing us what sorts of behavior is almost expected of athletes…what a strange feeling. These games are actually giving us a solid foundation for what is RIGHT and what is NOT ACCEPTABLE! I couldn’t believe it!

Maybe Video Games are good role models. Maybe we should take a lesson from the games out there and know that when you play football, or basketball…that fighting isn’t something that is acceptable. Maybe we should learn that when you pimp out your girls and shoot cops, that cops will come after you via a star-rating system. Maybe we should all just grow up a little and pay some more attention to those life-learn lessons found in Video Games.

-Socratic Processor