An Eye For An Eye?

Florida coach Urban Meyer announced this week he has suspended linebacker Brandon Spikes for the first half of Saturday’s upcoming game against Vanderbilt after Spikes attempted to gouge the eyes of Georgia running back Washaun Ealey in last weekend’s 41-17 victory over the Bulldogs.

You can see the incident here.

Spikes made no excuses for his actions and issued an apology. We all deserve a second chance, so apology accepted but the penalty should be more than one half of football against Vandy. What’s even more troubling to me were the comments about the attempted blinding from Tim Tebow.

On ESPN Tebow states:

“I don’t think that we did anything in that game that they didn’t do,” Tebow said Monday. “If you go back and look at it and study it, you can see it in the film, too. It was an intense game, both teams were very passionate about it.”

Wow, I know he’s an extremely religious guy and all, but haven’t we gotten past the days of an eye for eye? I’m a huge Tebow admirer — as evidenced by our lengthy Tebow profile full of shirtless photos — but geez dude, he tried to blind someone. Whatever happended to turn the other cheek or do unto other as you would have them do unto you?

Talk about losing your religion.