A Football Interlude

More New Oleans stuff is on the way. First, I wanted to post this excerpt from a documentary on one Florida high school football team. I like to think, broadly-speaking, Florida is different than the rest of the South. Whether or not that idea pertains to football, I'm not sure. Watch the video. Too much to comment on.



Turean Charles, the "star" of the film, signed with the University of Florida and was eventually dismissed from the team. From fanblogs.com:

On June 13 in 2004, Charles was charged with punching a student in the head, throwing him off a deck and then tossing a beer keg at him during an off-campus party. Other players were present. The victim suffered a concussion and a broken nose that required surgery and stitches.

Charles previously pleaded no contest to simple assault charges after an incident in a female student's dormitory room. He was suspended for one game and received a year's probation for that charge.

He has now graduated from Bethune-Cookman.