In 2007, just like any year, we have seen the obscene, the shocking, and the downright idiotic. We have witnessed total abasement, constant stupidity, and unthinkable insanity that has made 2007 another year of having its share of things that are totally “F---- Up!”
From Tony Romo’s fumbled field goal snap to the NASA astronaut using pepper spray on a romantic rival at work. From the Virginia Tech shootings produced by the troubled Cho Seung-Hui, to Mattel messing up their toy company with defective products, the events continued to amount.
2007 couldn’t be complete without the Minnesota Bridge disaster, New Orleans residence still waiting for their long awaited FEMA check, Bud Selig’s refusal to travel to see Barry Bonds break baseball’s historic home run record, and PETA, the NFL, Nike, and anybody else laying the boom down on Michael Vick. The year’s insanity cannot excluded the departures of Karl Rowe and Alberto Gonzales from George Bush’s office, the continued fall of Spears family, Tim Donaghy opening up the gambling scandal in the NBA, a spitting incident of epic proportions on “Flavor of Love”, and Martina Hingis massive cocaine charges that drove her out of the game she used to love possibly forever.
Besides the Va.Tech massacres, notable tragic deaths continued, with the stunning gun downs of Washington redskins safety Sean Taylor and Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. The sport of soccer had its own share of pain scattering events, as Antonio Puerta of Spanish club Sevilla and Motherwell’s of Scotland Phil O’Donnell collapse and die on the field.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continued rejection of same sex lovers in Iran, the writers strike in California plaguing the networks, and Beanie Siegel chastising Kanye West for his selection stood out as well. The Jena 6’s story and Don Imus’ “nappy headed ho’s” could be placed in their own years of controversial events, Kevin Everett’s sudden paralyzed state was yet alone painful bow for new NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and Beyonce falling down on stage was indeed, “f--- up” worthy.
Sports coaches did and had their fair share of “F--- Up” moments. Isaiah Thomas, besides being head coach of arguably sports most dysfunctional and underachieving franchise, had commitments about whose allowed to call a black woman a “:b----“. Nick Saban continued to show his “class” by comparing a pair of consecutive defeats for his Alabama program with the events of Pearl Harbor and 9/11. Bobby Petrino probably had the most infidel moment of the year by ditching the sinking ship that is the Falcons with the season still left, after his first year! And unlike those aforementioned, Scott Skiles didn’t say anything dumb or do anything disloyal, he just got fired at Christmas time.
And who can forget about Michael Richards aka Kramer and his wonderful diatribe at the “Laugh Factory.” As you still wonder why so many still want to say “nigger” (because folks, “nigga” is the same thing for your information).
With all of these things and much more in store, what was truly the Most “F--- Up” moment of the year? What stunned you the most, what was the one that you will never ever forget in your life, and always highlight that event as truly representing of the “F--- Up” award? Well, here it is, the most “F--- Up” moment of 2007:
Tragic deaths happen every year, and this list is more about the outrageous and the ones that would make you laugh or make you shake your head in total disbelief, without the thought of someone’s death. Through those deaths are truly more of an unfortunate situation, it would defeat the spirit of “Now That’s F--- Up” columns. Because no death is more important than the other.
So, without further ado, the “Now That’s F--- Up” story of the year is the Jena 6 story. Lots of events vying for the top spot, but the Jena 6 truly represents the criteria looked for in the ultimate “F--- Up” story of the year. It represents a situation where the main focus didn’t cause the situation himself, herself, or themselves, and did not do anything in a stupid way to deserve what they have received. It is a situation where a ridiculous charge could have been placed on all of them, and still lingers on the heads of some of the charged individuals, where that charged could be attempted murder. Compared to their white counterparts who received barely a slap on the wrist, the young black males convicted needed America’s most powerful to support them, to give this story the national attention that it needed. Racism still exists in this country in 2007, and it truly is on the level of “F---- Up”.
So, there it is, the 2007 most “F----“ Up story. May God bless you on the New Year, and hopefully, your story won’t be considered among the list of “Now That’s F--- Up.”
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