Hey look, I’m all for fanaticism; I turn my phone off in the second half of important games. I’m a little upset after a big loss. I even used to get crazy looks when I had to have my beer in a certain position on the three bev-naps folded into a star while I watched Laker games. But my guy from China, who is commonly known as “The Iron Trumpet” is taking things a little bit far… According to Rueters:

The most famous fan of a Chinese soccer club has decided to become a monk after the squad withdrew from the country’s professional league last month in protest at the suspension of its top player.

The contentious decision prompted tens of thousands of irate soccer fans in Wuhan to march in protest earlier this month.

It also prompted Wuhan resident Mei Nansheng, commonly known as the “Iron Trumpet,” to pack his bags for the Shaolin Temple, the famed Buddhist shrine and birth-place of kung fu, according to local web portal Jingchu (www.cnhubei.com).

Read up on what happened here. It sounds pretty shitty what they did to the fans, but still he might be taking this a little to hard… they have him quoted as saying:

“My two sons have both died now,” Jingchu quoted Mei as saying, referring to Wuhan Guanggu and the Chinese national team. “So you could imagine how it grieves me.”

It actually isn’t so bad, because it turns out that dude had been a home-practising Buddhist since 2005, but after all this he just decided to become a full-time monk.

“I will go to the Shaolin Temple to live a peaceful life,” he said.

In one word, Awesome!

sweet image from this dudes Samers’ flickr page, he even won an award in Time for it.

***update*** for Nando and PShaw

I bet this dude has nothin’ on Steele Leg!