Steelers Game a Death Sentence for Puppy Named Flip

Personally, I'm not much of a sports fan.  My reasons for feeling this way have lots more to do with the attitudes associated with sports than with the games themselves.  It's the people, not the game.

One person who epitomizes my disdain for these game-related attitudes is William Woodson, 22, of Bridgeville, Pennsylvania.  Seems Woodson used Sunday's Pittsburgh Steelers game as the opportunity to mete out a death sentence on his girlfriend's puppy named Flip.  Flip was just 13 weeks old.

In an affidavit Woodson provided to Bridgeville police, he stated he never liked his girlfriend's puppy in the first place but the puppy really got under his skin when the dog wouldn't behave according to Woodson's desires in the moments preceding Sunday's football game.  The puppy, being just a puppy, after all, was not walking obediently alongside Woodson and his live-in girlfriend, Christine Gielarowski, 21, so Woodson began kicking it "like a soccer ball," according to one witness.  Woodson continued kicking the pit bull puppy down the street until the puppy died from the abuse.

Woodson fled once the dog appeared lifeless, Gielarowski lied to police about her identity and Woodson's, and police had to turn to Gielarowski's parents to learn of Woodson's identity.  Once police found the friend's house where Woodson was watching the game, Woodson was captured as he tried to escape out the back door.

I don't know how Sunday's game turned out for the Steelers.  I don't even know who they played.  And I don't care, either.  As far as I'm concerned, it was a loss.  Poor little Flip lost his life and the rest of us lost some of our collective humanity.