Sen. Carper is ruining our rep

So, there's a story making its way around the wires about Delaware senator Tom Carper and how he broke his foot in a volleyball charity match between Democrats and Republicans--and didn't even know it was broken.

We're going to forego the usual punchlines about the battle between Democrats and Republicans getting more fierce than ever, blah blah blah, because, frankly, it's enough already.

Instead, we'd like to chastise Carper for hurting our sport's image. You know, we're trying to grow the game of volleyball, and it doesn't do much for our street cred when a 60-year-old senator can break a bone in his foot and keep playing.

You never hear about this kind of thing happening in one of those X Games sports. A senator goes down snowboarding, he goes down hard, winds up in traction with compound fractures, further increasing the cool factor that makes snowboarding so hip to begin with.

Thanks a lot, Sen. Carper.