Ok, yeah yeah, I know nobody cares about soccer on this board, so just shut up VineyardDawg... but as we're carrying on with the wailing and gnashing of teeth over losing a few ball games, I just wanted to share this link.

Charlie Davies is to US Soccer what Freshman Mohamed Massaquoi was to the 2005 SEC Championship team: an up and coming star, with incredibly promising (though young) talent. He started in last Saturday's game for the U.S. that cliched a World Cup birth in 2010.

Early Tuesday morning, Charlie was a passenger in a car that crashed in Washington DC, killing the other passenger and seriously injuring him and the driver. Davies suffered a broken femur, broken fibula, broken elbow, multiple facial fractures, and a lacerated bladder.

In one fell swoop, this young man's life has been changed forever, and it's likely it will never be the same player again. Certainly, he's lucky to be alive at all. (And certainly, all soccer fans hope he is able to come back, though it seems petty to voice such a hope right now.)

Hopefully, this serves to give us a little perspective on how fragile human life is, and though this diversion of sport is very entertaining and can be all-encompassing to some, there are far more important things in life. Not to mention simply having life and enjoying it to the fullest...