Owl Vs Bat

It's an owl...help him!
Oh wait...it's a bat...kill it!!

There has been an uproar over the kicking of an owl by a Colombian soccer player during a recent match.

The soccer player was on the visiting team.
The owl was a mascot for the home team.
So I can see how fans of the home team would go nuts about the issue.
But, animal rights advocates are all over the dude, too.

I don't get it.
It wasn't too long ago that an athlete playing in a much higher profile league had a similar run-in with a flying animal and no one seemed to make much of a fuss.
I'm referring to NBA player Manu Ginobili's bat-slap during a Halloween night game last season.
The soccer player's owl incident is hardly different from Manu's bat incident...from the animal's perspective.

Just so we're clear...
Manu pimp-slaps a bat...he's a hero.
Soccer dude kicks an owl...he's an ass.
Is that about right?

Apparently, animal rights advocates have a line that separates animals they care about from animals they don't care about.
And that line appears to fall somewhere between owls and bats.

See for yourself....





For the record, I laughed while watching both vids.
But, I'm the Godfather of the Billycock Mafia...I'm hard that way.



BC rocks Foo!