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When I reached Cowboys punter Mat McBriar by phone last night, he seemed genuinely moved by the death of Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin. McBriar and Irwin were born in Victoria, near Melbourne. Every night before McBriar goes to bed (starting to feel weird about this sentence), he checks out a couple of Australian newspapers on the Internet. He said he was in shock when he read the news. By the way, anyone who's been to the Cayman Islands has probably touched a stingray. In fact, stingrays are the lovable tourist mascots. The fact that a stingray put a hole in a famous man's heart could change that image. m |
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Posted by James Joyner @ 2:30 PM Tue, Sep 05, 2006
Sad news indeed on Irwin's death. I'd never realized just how important has was to Australians until the post-mortems, including a statement from the PM.
BTW, I thought you were going on vacation and turning over the reins to some guy from ESPN?
Posted by Kal @ 3:00 PM Tue, Sep 05, 2006
What about Crocodile Dundee? I think he is more famous than all of the rest!
Posted by Steven Kilpatrick @ 6:25 PM Tue, Sep 05, 2006
As a huge fan of Irwin's I think it would have been sad news at any time, but as a human being it's extremely unsettling.
For a man that seems so invincible to die in a way that is so unlikely (as you say, sting rays are fairly docile animals)flies in the face of what we want to believe as humans.
The instinct is that Steve should never have died in a way that was so 1 in a million unlikely at such a young age. It affects us as fans (if you are one) but as people facing mortality. If Steve Irwin can be taken away like that, we all lose a little bit of our invincibility.