Friday, January 9, 2009

Dangers of Sports Radio

I used to listen to broadcasts of my team's basketball games and post-game commentary on a local rock station. A few years ago the rock station became a country station but retained the game broadcasts. Usually I pull in somewhere and hop out of the car with the game still going or the interviews continuing, so it's always a bit disconcerting when I next start the car and am surprised to hear country music blaring.

I had the fortune to attend a game with my brother recently and in our long wait to roll out of the parking lot after our victory, we listened to the coach interview and stats. The next day when I got in the car, I heard one line of a country song. Just one line before my hand shot to the controls and jabbed a button, any button, to change the sounds shooting into my vehicle. I still can't believe these are real words to a real song that is really played on the radio:

"We'll put a bullet in your ass because that's what Americans do".

Consider me speechless.

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