It's been a rather good week regarding the appeal of sports. Earlier this week there was a little riot on the training field of soccer team AA Gent here in Belgium. Two players got into an argument and ended up beating the sh*t out of each other. It ended with the lovely climax of one guy picking up a bat and totally started pummeling the other guy. Little battles on the field are more then common: elbows, punches and even head butts. But two players that are on the same team come on what the hell were they thinking.

Just recently I've seen the video of the riot at the Indiana Pacers - Detroit Pistons NBA game. Talk about a messed up situation, this reminds of the time when Eric Cantona drop kicked a fan right in the face. I'm not really into the NBA because I live in Belgium but I don't think that's a common fact in an NBA game. With al this commotion around the concept of "fair play" the last couple of years, I'm really surprised that such things happen.

The funniest thing is that when people are looking for a scapegoat to blame the problems of violence among young people, videogames have become a beloved target. Some time ago this Belgian politician came up with the idea to ban violent videogames from our insignificant country. Games would endorse people to commit violent acts so they are evil and must be destroyed. Ironically this politician is known for beating the crap out of his own wife and there are pictures of him and the rest of his neo-nazi club beating up some poor guy in broad daylight. And yet we are the f*cked up generation and community. What kind of twisted and evil plot is that. If they want to ban videogames, they have to ban religion as well. Religion has been the main cause of violence since the dawn of civilization, but no, you can't look back at the millions of people that have been murdered in the name of God, that's blasphemy.

The blame has always been shifting from generation to generation. Wasn't Rock 'n Roll know as the Devil's music? How many psycho's have killed someone based on some gore filled scene out of a horror movie? Of course there are some cases in which it's obvious that games are involved. There was this strange kid out of the Netherlands with a really absurd fetish for Squall Lionheart (he even walked around in the same costume) that killed a guy. But hey violence is all around us. Why only blame videogames, when we see it everyday on the news, inside and outside of the stadium, movies,... Who says that some kid ain't gonna knock some other kids block of because he saw the violence at that NBA game?

The only thing we can really blame for violent acts is humanity itself. Violence is a rather large part of human nature. It's a fact that simply kind be denied. If we really want to get rid of it we should first look inside ourselves instead of blaming it on external factors.