What should be noted is before Lambert opens fire, the BYU player that lambert is marking is tossing elbows backward into Lambert’s gut. Lambert does what any crazy Lobo would do; she gives her opponent a solid kidney punch in the back.
But the clip that gets your blood circulating and is dancing across the internet faster than Brittney spears getting out of a limo with no panties on, is the slo mo close up of Lambert decking her opponent.
The video shows Lambert marking Kassidy Shumway from behind. Shumway isn’t exactly a Catholic school girl clutching Rosary Beads and praying to Jesus for world peace. The BYU player is doing some things that seem pretty aggressive herself, pulling at Lambert’s shorts.
Lambert grabs Shumway’s pony tail like a subway strap and rips down on the brown locks like an old woman yanking on a slot machine.
The suddenness of the action is overwhelming and blatant. It is so pure in its moment of unsportsman like behavior it is devilishly delightful to watch.
Kassidy Shumway goes down like a ton of bricks. She lays on the ground, theatrically, motionless for a few moments. Is she dead? Was she shot by a sniper on a nearby clock tower?
Nope! She was just Lambertized like meat tenderizer.
Wow. It was savage. If this was 1870’s America, Lambert would have taken the BYU girl’s scalp and nailed it to her dorm room wall.
If this wasn’t an NCAA sanctioned woman’s soccer tournament, you would have thought you were watching World Wrestling Federation. Where was Vince McMahon? Where were the busty boobs and the midgets with folding chairs?
“My actions were uncalled for,” Lambert said in a statement released by New Mexico. “I let my emotions get the best of me in a heated situation.”
The University of New Mexico quickly announced that the Matron of Mayhem would be suspended.
“Liz is a quality student-athlete, but in this instance her actions clearly crossed the line of fair play and good sportsmanship,” New Mexico coach Kit Vela said.
Yeah, maybe.
But you know what. Sports is tough.
Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear. Then he painted his face with zebra stripe tattoos to permanently scare trick or treaters. Mike Tyson is the poster boy of Crazy.
Albert Haynesworth, 350 pounds of defensive lineman, stomped his 3 inch cleats into the defenseless face of a Dallas Cowboy Center. Ouch! Can you say anger management and serious facial reconstruction.
Roger Clemmons, high as a kite on the juice, sawed off the bat of Mike Piazza with a inside fastball. The bat shattered, a portion of which landed near Clemmons. What did the steroid crazed pitcher do? He picked up the splintered bat and threw it like a spear at the stunned Piazza. Hell hath no fury like a steroid high punk.
NASCAR drivers routinely smash into one another. “Rubbin is Racin” they like to say when one driver spins another driver into the wall on turn four.
Aggressive nastiness is nothing new in sports. What’s new is the speed of light judge and jury of the internet.
Ten years ago, the soccer girl incident wouldn’t have generated a mouse click. Now it’s “The Video” that runs 24 / 7 on cable sports.
And that is crazy!