Soccer = Death. If You’re a Catfish

Sad news coming out of Germany.

It seems that love of soccer has proven deadly. To a six-foot catfish. He apparently attacked a soccer ball floating in a canal and suffocated when it got stuck in his mouth.

The two-meter long fish was found on Monday in a sluice in the Main River with its teeth sunk into the blue and white plastic ball.

“The catfish had evidently bitten into the ball and suffocated,” Bavarian police said in a statement. “Whether the fish was swept up in the current excitement about football in the wake of the EURO 2008 championship could not be ascertained.”

Too bad, too. Because it looks like he was a whole lot better at catching the ball than Jens Lehmann.