Things That Make You Go - hmmmm?

I don't care much about the World Cup Soccer, just not my thing. But by now probably everyone in the world knows that a Crazy French Soccer Dude (CFSD) head-butted a Rude Italian Opponent (RIO) who he claims was saying not nice things about his mum and sister; CFSD was thrown out and the French lost. He's retiring, it was his last game and apparently he was a fairly big deal, so what a stupid way to end your career. Here's the part that's worth my blog space - CFSD has since apologized, sort of, and also said "I tell myself that if things happened this way, it's because somewhere up there it was decided that way, and I don't regret anything that happened, I accept it." Okay, first off, I do believe that God can and does get involved in our lives, but I also believe we have free will. God has the power to make us little automatons for his amusement (like a giant version of the Sims) but He doesn't. Don't want to get into a big theological debate, just stating my beliefs. Therefore, I don't think that "somewhere up there it was decided" that CFSD would head-butt RIO. If a meteor the size of a chihuahua head had fallen from space and beaned him, causing him to miss the end of the game -then you can blame God. Second, CFSD should regret what happened. He made a bad choice, and his team losing the world championship may very well have been a direct result of that. It's dumb to regret things that you did without being able to know all the relevant info, like "If I'd've known the cook had SARS, I wouldn't have eaten there" but regrets are called for when you decide to do something when you know it will end badly. He had to have a pretty good idea that ramming one's head into another player is cause for ejection. To say "I accept it" means that it is something that happened to you, and you know that you couldn't have done anything about it, and that it wasn't your fault. This was totally his fault. Did RIO make unsavory comments about his family? Sure, why not, let's assume he did - so what? It's called "trash talking" and if can get the other team's best player to attack you and therefore be pitched from the game, then it's called "strategy". Whatever RIO said about his mum, who cares? No one heard it but CFSD and no one would really take that as fact any. This is part of the continuing Nothing-Is-My-Fault mentality that is really starting to cheese me off. An apology goes like this "I was wrong. I am sorry. It was my fault and I will make an honest attempt to not do that ever again." It does not sound like "Hey, it's too bad that happened, but here are the 15 reasons it's not my fault. . . " So sorry if this blog offended you, but I know that somewhere up there it was decided that I'd write it and also, CFSD made me. PS - after I posted this initially, I went to Scott Adam's blog and wouldn't you know he has a post on the same subject, but funnier. . . .