Alabama Fan Supports Abuse of Daughter by Crimson Tide Football Player
I don't have kids. Heck, I can barely manage the responsibility of owning a cat (responsibility and pants are a blogger's kryponite after all). But I imagine if I did, and one of my kids was a girl and she grew up and went to Alabama and while at Alabama she was assaulted by a football player, well, regardless of the circumstances, I would wholeheartedly support her and cry in outrage that the player who attacked her deserves life in prison. Or something like that.
Either way, I certainly wouldn't act like Dave Gryzb, who is clearly the most loving and kind-hearted father of all time. Assuming, of course, that "loving and kind-hearted" means "soulless and deranged" and "father" means "Alabama football fan." See, Gryzb's daughter, Kendall is a 19-year-old Alabama student who recently got into a fight with boyfriend and Alabama football player Courtney Upshaw. Mr. Gryzb's reaction was typical of a true gentleman.
I hate to see this guy get in too much trouble because I honestly think it was probably initiated by my daughter. I don't think he laid a hand on her. He just tried to restrain her to keep from getting hit again."
This is after he called it a "simple lovers quarrel." Of course, that pleasant little description differs, um, slightly from the police reports that have emerged:
"At this time, Upshaw grabbed Gryzb by the back of the neck and hair with his right hand, and pushed her downward in what appeared to be an attempt to push her to the ground," Officer Rusty Romine wrote.
In fairness to Upshaw, it's probably worth pointing out here that Miss Grzyb apparently slapped the tar out of him for talking to another woman and that could have caused the, ahem, quarrel. But still, the issue at stake here isn't that Upshaw attacked the woman, as the police report alleges, it's that her father -- her own flesh and blood! -- made sure to point out that it was HER FAULT.
That, party people, is absolutely insane, no matter what school you root for or how much you love football. It's his FREAKING DAUGHTER, and he's lobbing her under the painfully square and lumbering wheels of justice by refusing to get her back in a case that screams "typical [alleged] assault by a football player on a young woman!"
And maybe I'm wrong and Gryzb is right and Upshaw did nothing wrong (other than [allegedly] grabbing a woman by the hair and shoving her face towards a flat, concrete surface) and he shouldn't be chastised for this. But even if that's the case, come on guy: it's your daughter. Grow up.
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