Several Mepham, Long Island football coaches who were fired in the aftermath of last summer's sexual assault by some of their players against others are suing, trying to get their jobs back.

One of them, insisting coaches shouldn't be blamed, invoked the circumstances surrounding 9/11 in remarks to Newsday:

"That's not a foreseeable action. Nine-eleven was not a foreseeable action. Columbine was not a foreseeable action."

In all fairness, he teaches gym, not history.