Everyone else seems to have a take on this now-infamous shove, so I guess I should, too.  Did the kid headbutt the coach first?  Probably.  Did the coach overreact?  I suppose.  Was his two-game suspension justified?  Sure, why not. 

I'm sorry, I guess I just can't get as worked up about this as most, because I just don't see it as a big deal.  Of course, I am in no way condoning violence of any sort against children (or anyone, for that matter), but of all the incidents to become a countywide outrage, this isn't it.

Every day in this county alone, hundreds of children are seriously neglected or abused, but few if any get a fraction of the indignant media attention of this "Shove Heard 'Round the County."

The player wasn't hurt and, while I don't pretend to have any inside knowledge of Coach Grochowski's motives, it doesn't seem to me that he acted with overly malicious intent.  Football is a game predicated on highly-charged emotions that, on Friday night, unfortunately got the better of him.  Was he wrong?  Absolutely.  Does he deserve to be Milwaukee County's villain-of-the-moment?  Probably not, because one glance of the headlines on our website's front page reveals far worse than him.