A Noble Warrior Passes On

Here at The Death Pool, we have our share of fun with postings. It's a bit of a can-you-top-this contest to see who can come up with the worst play on words for a heading, and we often make ourselves laugh writing the "stories" that follow the headings. Because after all, if you can make just one person laugh, then it's been all worth it, and damn it if we're not going to make ourselves that one person.

Anyway, those are the good days, and they are bountiful. However, there are also the sad days. The days when someone you don't want to see die is beset by misfortune (no, not you, Heath Ledger. I don't care how kick-ass The Dark Knight looks, you still get no sympathy for "accidentally" overdosing on pills. The only accident we would have accepted would have been you accidentally tripping over your massage table, falling onto your back, and an open pill bottle falling off the table, sending 30 pills freefalling into your mouth as you cried out for help). And of course, the days the dark duty falls upon us to report the falling of a true hero.

Over the weekend, graceful muse and University of Georgia mascot Uga VI gave up a brutal fight with congestive heart failure. Like his daddy and granddaddy before him, Uga VI will be buried in a vault in the corner of Georgia's football stadium. Some have speculated that it was the College World Series that did him in, while others questioned the hefty beast's traditional Southern diet of fried lard and Beam. Perhaps the most telling sign of Uga VI's legacy: the number of comments to ESPN.com's story reporting the death. 319. By comparison:
--Wimbledon updates: 19 comments.
--Spain beating Germany in EURO 2008 (the "world's game"): 18 comments
--WNBA Power Rankings: 1 comment

If that doesn't clearly show that we as sports fans have our priorities in order, we don't know what does. Rest in peace, little Uga. Heaven just got a little more slobbery.