Recent events during World Cup Soccer have brought back fond memories for me. Things I haven't thought about in years: Both my kids were biters when they were babies.
I'm not proud of that. Sweet little girls, the both of them. But put a slower, less agile baby in the way of the toybox, and it was every baby for himself.
They're teenagers now, and no longer biters I'm proud to say. And they've faced some pretty adversarial situations over the years: competitive kids' sports, mean girls at school, and god-awful Dance Moms. Hell, I wanted to bite some of the Dance Moms myself.
So I get it. Whether you're fighting for the soccer ball in a World Cup game, or the Fisher Price telephone in the nursery, it's easy to lose your head in the heat of battle. So I'm not judging Uruguay's Luis Suarez for his (latest) biting incident. As he and his teammates said, "These are things that happen." I can just picture Baby Luis biting every other baby in the nursery, and his mom calling the other parents saying, "These are things that happen in the nursery. Both babies went for the Push Corn Popper. We don't have to to give this so much importance." And a lifelong biter is born.
But seriously, how did sports get so ugly? This isn't a new thing. 20 years ago exactly, sports fans everywhere were horrified when figure skater Tonya Harding hired a hit on Nancy Kerrigan's knee. Since then it's been story after story of bad sportsmanship, ranging from betting scandals to athletes doping.
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