Oh No! Another Minnesota Sports Scandal!
Fox 9 News is one of the news stations in Minneapolis that is always out taking a stand, investigating all that is wrong with the world and making sure we know about it. While I was watching Family Guy and American Dad last night, Fox 9 kept promoting their big news story which they claimed would uncover “another Minnesota sports team scandal.” They are of course playing off the recent Minnesota Vikings charter boat sex scandal that left Minnesotans outraged.
So what team is in trouble now, I wondered. Yeah, I took their bait and had to watch to find out. I wondered, could it be the Timberwolves, the Twins, the Wild? No, apparently Fox 9 News has been following around the University of Minnesota Hockey team with hidden cameras to bars and drinking parties. Oh no, college kids drink! Who would have thought!?! They had hidden camera footage of 19 & 20 year old players drinking at parties and in bars.
Seriously, Fox 9. They drink? No kidding. Going after a bunch of college kids for drinking is rediculous. This stupid news station sees that Minnesota cares about off the field/court/rink/what-have-you sports scandals, and so to boost their ratings they go after some barely under-21 college kids for something as piddly as drinking, consequently probably ruining these kids’ sports/college careers. Most college kids drink, big deal. If they were shooting up heroin or snorting cocaine, that’d be different. But going out and having a few drinks really makes no difference to me. Are they going after the bars that are letting them in? That would seem like a good scandal for a news station to go after. No, they didn’t hold the bars accountable at all. That’s not the story, after all.
I get so sick of these Minneapolis news stations, always trying to sensationalize everything they can. It’s pathetic. They screw up people’s lives in the process, even young college kids who are just doing what college kids do. Perhaps my view about college drinking is immature or irresponsible. Yeah, I know it’s illegal to be under 21 and drink. I understand it’s probably against University rules for an athlete to drink underage. I see the issues they are raising, I just don’t think it’s something serious enough to be ruining young lives over for the sake of boosting news ratings. If it were about punishing bars who let underage drinkers in, fine. If it were about reducing college drinking in general, fine. There was no solution to the problem offered in this story. This was just about ruining young lives for ratings, and it’s despicable.