This is football, stop bitching about a loogie

Maybe it's the far more intriguing Miami Heat forcing my focus to shift away from the Dolphins, but it doesn't help that the Dolphins are uninspiring to watch and approaching flat out boring.

So how do the Dolphins stay in the national headlines? How about Channing Crowder accusing Baltimore's Le'Ron McClain of spitting at the Dolphins linebacker.

Honestly, who gives a shit? This is football. President Roosevelt (Teddy, not FDR) nearly banned football altogether because of numerous deaths in the 1906 season. They created helmets, life goes on, but it's still a brutal sport.

Former Florida Gators running backs coach Mike Locksley once explained to me that every time a running back is tackled, it's about equal to the impact of a car crash. You're tackled 10 times in a game, and you experience more car accidents in one afternoon than most of us will in a lifetime. It's the reason Ricky Williams wanted to smoke pot and read the bible.

Crowder, one of my favorite all-time Gators who always speaks his mind, even referred to the ref who missed the spit heard around the world as "a little Stevie Wonder and Anne Frank." Because there are a ton of parallels to the ref and a little girl who hid from Nazis in an attic (for the record, Crowder meant to say Helen Keller. Oops).

Even if the ref did see McClain's unfriendly gesture, there's nothing civil about football. By the Dolphins continuing to complain about a loogie, it only makes them seem petty and weak.