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Season opener: Punch Bowl
Published: 9/4/2009 8:22 AM
Last Modified: 9/4/2009 8:22 AM

The hot-button sports issue of the day is what should the punishment be for Oregon's LeGarrette Blount? He punched Boise State's Byron Hout after a season opener and had to be restrained when fans began yelling not-nice things to him.
Blount deserves a dose of punishment. You can't lose your cool like he lost his cool and expect life to go on business as usual.
But here's the other question we should be asking: What should the punishment be for Hout?
Why should Hout be punished? Wasn't he the victim here? Sure. But he sort of volunteered to be a pinata.
Hout lit the match for the postgame fracas when -- instead of minding his own business and heading to the locker room -- he appeared to whack Blount on the shoulder and then Hout apparently had something to say to Blount.
By the way, Hout was credited with exactly zero tackles in the game. If anyone had the right to crow or talk smack, maybe it should be someone that actually tackled Blount at least once.



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MexiMike (3 years ago)
In my opinion, Hout deserved it. If Blount wouldn't have gone after fans after the incident, I don't think the penalty would have been as severe. You just can't do that.
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