You wanna party with the lights on.
Question: What makes it a brawl, and not just a fight? Or a fracas or a tussle? That basketball incident that the stations keep bringing up again and again so that they can hit their auto-dial instant-replay buttons?
It has been officially coined now, a brawl -- which, according to Dictionary.com, is "a noisy quarrel or fight."

Hmm. Pondering just what a quiet quarrel would look like. And could deaf individuals engage in a brawl, or does it absolutely necessitate making noise, in some way?

It's just strange the way that media defines words for ya. Now, whenever the word "brawl" comes into my head, it's accompanied by that particular tussle.

Last thought on this: Anybody remember that old Saturday Night Live News Update reporting that Buckwheat had been shot? That's what this excessive instant-replay salivation is reminding me of:

Reporter/Commentator/Freakishly Botoxed Talking Head:
"My goodness-! This certainly could influence the young people of America to see violence as o.k.! Let's show that clip again..."