Back off of Zinedine!

Sure, Zinedine Zidane could've handled the whole head-butting thing better. But, he so obviously provoked. The Italian, Marco Materazzi, who was defending Zidane during this match, was grabbing at ZZ's shoulder, which he had injured earlier in the game. Then, as is shown in the playback, Materazzi said something to Zidane, which we later find out is a derrogatory comment about Zidane's mother. This is followed by Zidane running ahead and then turning around to headbutt his offender.

Now, I understand that Zidane kind of lost it. He should of thought about his legacy and how this is his last game. He should have thought about how this is the impression everyone will be left with. But the fact of the matter is, he didn't. And he got kicked out of the game. What I think is that Materazzi wanted to do anything to get Zidane out of the game: whether by red card or by injury. Also, whether Zidane had headbutted him or blew on him, he would crumbled in the faux seizure he had on the field post-headbutt.

So, in conclusion, Zidane was wrong to overreact, but he was not solely at fault and he wasn't "CRAZY" or "f*ckin dumb", as some of my Italian-cheering friends have said. If it was any other guy with cajones, he would have done the same thing; in fact, I would have done the same thing.

Before I sign off, I am gonna go on a tangent about a whole different subject: the lottery. If this isn't the most unfair redistribution of wealth in the world, I don't know what is. I mean, seriously, we have enough problems with polarization of wealth for the government to sanction it so openly. GOD!

Okay, I'm done.