Six Penn State Players Charged In Brawl

A couple weeks ago something ridiculous happened on Penn State's campus that ended with 18 members of the football team raiding some party attended by people who had managed to offend safety Anthony Scirrotto. A dustup ensued. A fracas. Blows were thrown. Etc. etc. etc. so forth and so on, and the police got involved. A somewhat threatening anonymous letter was left at the scene of the crime pleading for the beaten upon to drop the case. It's been kind of a weird few weeks for Penn State fans wondering if their team was going to be gutted.

Apparently it won't be. Today six members of the team were charged with crimes of various severity:

Scirrotto, a safety, and Christopher Baker, a defensive tackle, face the most serious counts, including burglary, felony trespassing, harassment and simple assault. King, a cornerback, and three other players face charges including harassment and disorderly conduct.

This isn't as bad as Penn State fans feared it might have been. Harassment and disorderly conduct are probably stairs-running offenses; only Scirrotto and Baker appear to be in serious trouble. But in trouble those two are, charged with multiple felonies they were totally smart enough to commit in front of dozens of witnesses. They have to be gone, especially Scirrotto, who started the whole thing after a street confrontation with a female "friend." A few phone calls later he had assembled the Jets and gone looking for a tragic but strangely musical knife fight, endangering the careers of everyone dumb enough to turn up. Enjoy I-AA.