To think I’d ever instruct my guys to get on the mat and practice sticking their fingers in their teammates’ rear end, it’s stupid and ridiculous,” longtime Fresno State wrestling coach Dennis DeLiddo said. “A butt drag isn’t sticking your finger up a guy’s [rectum]. That’d be illegal. That’d be counterproductive.”
From the “Truly, Deeply Disturbing Sports News” Department….
I’ve written a fair amount about sports over the years, and there have been some VERY strange stories come my way. Never have I come across anything quite like what in the wrestling vernacular is called a butt drag. I sucked at wrestling when I was a schoolboy, so I stuck to my passion- basketball. Judging by what’s happening in the sport of wrestling today, it appears that I may well have made a wise choice. I mean, what can you say about a sport in which an official feels the need to state the following in ANY shape, manner, or form?
Then there’s the executive director of the National Wrestling Coaches Association, who clarifies “it is never acceptable to insert fingers into the opponent’s anus (regardless of duration).”
A former high school, wrestler in California’s Central Valley face a charge of sexual battery after a wrestling practice that…well, let’s just say it went horribly, horribly wrong. Now I fear I’m going to have to spend the rest of today trying to wipe that disturbing image from my mind. Eww….
Call me silly, but why would any sane person choose to engage in a sport that could potentially see them having to register as a sex offender?? Perhaps we should just stick to lingerie football….
