In a 2007 bar fight in Oklahoma City, college rivalries took a dangerous turn. A University of Oklahoma football fan injured the, um, manhood of a University of Texas fan and the fight turned legal. But now the felony assault charge against 54-year-old Allen Michael Beckett is being dismissed.
 

District Attorney David Prater said the charges were being dropped due to new witnesses who have come forward. It now appears as if the attack, which led to Beckett tearing the scrotum of 35-year-old Brian Christopher Thomas, may have been more of a “mutual combat situation.”
 

The Houston Chronicle explains the painful details:

Thomas testified in March that he received more than 60 stitches and still endures pain, although there was no permanent damage.

He claimed that Beckett taunted him about wearing a Texas shirt into the heart of Sooner country and that Beckett attacked him without provocation.

But Beckett, a federal auditor and church deacon, maintained that Thomas became angry when he commented on his Texas shirt and that Thomas was the aggressor.

"My client was cornered in a position where it was either fight or flight," Bock said. "He grabbed him in between the legs because he (Beckett) was much smaller and much older."

Bock also said the rivalry between the football powerhouses was not a major factor in the dispute and that charges were filed simply because of the heinous nature of Thomas' injuries.

"If my client had hit him in the nose, this case never would have been filed," Bock said. "My client didn't even go to OU.

With that said, Thomas might be lucky. Just imagine if Beckett had been a devoted OU fan. He might have gone Lorena Bobbitt on Thomas’ ass.