Elizabeth Lambert vs. Tonya Harding

 Elizabeth Lambert vs. Tonya Harding

For those of you who have been living in a black hole the past few weeks and don’t know who Elizabeth Lambert is let me help you out.  She is the University of New Mexico Soccer player who achieved millions of hits on YouTube when her brain was stolen by aliens in a conference playoff game vs. BYU.  “Miss” (I use the term loosely) Lambert over the course of the game kidney punched an opponent, tripped another player, slapped a player in the face while battling for the ball and then to top it off yanked a player’s hair so hard it probably gave her whiplash as she slammed to the ground.  Yesterday she broke her silence after the aliens finally returned her brain.

“I think the way the video came out, it did make me look like a monster.  That’s not the player I am.  I’m not out there trying to hurt players.  I definitely feel that because I am a female it did bring about a lot more attention than if a male were to do it.  The female, we’re still looked at as, Oh we kick the ball around and score a goal.  But it’s not.  We train very hard to reach the highest level we can get to.  It’s a game. Sports are physical”

 Let me help you out dear sweet Elizabeth…the way you play the game is an insult to any player that takes the field in soccer, male or female.  The reason you look like a monster is because you became one when the aliens took away your common sense and self control.  As for training hard, I am assuming you trained in the secret land where they teach you how to attack when people aren’t looking (Tonya Harding hmm), as the kidney punch, the slap to the face and the hair pulling occurred when your opponent had their back to you and the trip was delivered when your opponent was about to beat you.  In the school yard I grew up in you would be called a bully.  The fact that you use your female sexuality as an excuse for the attention you have garnered is a crock and I don’t mean of honey.  The attention is because you are a poor excuse and example of a student athlete.  It would have been safer for your opponent to step onto a college wrestling mat with no experience because at least the referees could have protected the BYU players.  Which leads me to the question of where was the control from the U of New Mexico coaches and referees for the players on the field?

 Through all of these actions not one Coach on the University of New Mexico sideline said (bear with me while I state the obvious) “We need to get Lizzy off the field; she has clearly lost her mind and is going to hurt someone”.  What a terrible breakdown in the leadership of the coaches as they failed Elizabeth, their U of NM team, BYU and all of the young people who were watching this game.  Furthermore the two sideline judges with the cool flags and the referee couldn’t get their act together (besides a yellow card for the tripping) to somehow help this young lady who had clearly lost all control.  Currently Elizabeth is suspended indefinitely while her Coach and A.D. decide what repercussions will suit her actions. (I don’t know maybe a charge of assault) In the meantime who is deciding what repercussions her Coach will receive for the terrible leadership the University of New Mexico displayed as a staff and the missed calls by the referee?  (And you thought the umpires had issues in the World Series)

 If each one of Elizabeth’s actions (excluding the ponytail hair pull) had occurred separately over the course of the season they could be attributed to tough physical play but the fact is that her clashes transpired during one game which shows true loss of self control which is intolerable. Nor is it acceptable that her coaching staff failed her.  At the end of the day she can only blame herself and the aliens who ironically years ago made off with Tonya Harding’s brain.

 FOR NOW I am waiting for UFC to set up a fight between Elizabeth Lambert and Tonya Harding.