Get out the fiddle. Jerseys (and more) are burning.

I'd say I'm worried about where we're going as a civilization, but I'm not. Because it's too late to worry about it. Now it's all about trying to stay away from the madness as much as possible.

This is the Hlog, not the first place you'd go for any sort of educated essay on human behavior and how it is progressing (or regressing). So I won't burden you with heavy, depressing news like four Detroit police officers getting shot in a precinct station or a shooting in a Wal-Mart near Seattle left two people dead and two sheriff's deputies wounded the same day, all on Sunday.

Something a whole lot less important, namely the acts of unhappy football fans, has taken on crazier dimensions. Witness Sunday outside Soldier Field in Chicago, where at least one Bears fan burned a jersey bearing the name and number of Bears quarterback Jay Cutler after Chicago's NFC title-game loss to Green Bay.

Really?  OK, maybe this was just one isolated example (maybe), and loony acts like that have always been around us. We used to lack the connectivity to be aware of most of them.

Humans have evolved in many ways, thankfully. I mean, 19 people in Salem, Mass. were found guilty of witchcraft and hanged. That was in 1692. I don't think that could happen today. Not in Salem, anyway.

So mass hysteria isn't a recent phenomenon. There have been cars tipped over and fires set in the name of celebrating championships here and there. West Virginia is the couch-burning capital of college football.

But burning LeBron James No. 6 jerseys in Cleveland last summer, burning a Cutler jersey Sunday -- what's the next step from there? I guess there are reasons people get the once-over from security as they enter college and pro stadiums these days.

However, I didn't seen anyone in Heinz Field berating Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger Sunday as he quarterbacked his team to its AFC title-game victory over the New York Jets. Nine months earlier? Big Ben wasn't held in such high esteem in Pittsburgh.

Winning is a powerful antidote to hurt feelings.

Oh, Cutler's knee injury that so many doubted could turn out to be a torn MCL. For once, I almost hope a player had a serious injury.