A wide array of educators, child psychologists and parents have long maintained that video games -- for lack of a better term -- rot children's minds.

And with an advocate like Carl Edwards speaking on behalf of gamers everywhere, it's awfully difficult to argue.

Asked about that last-lap maneuver at Kansas Speedway in which he passed Jimmie Johnson on the low side, only to slingshot  into the wall, allowing Johnson to regain the lead and win the race, this is basically how Edwards explained his actions:

It works on my Xbox.

"In video games, you can just run into the wall and run it wide open," he added. "That's what I did, but it didn't quite work out the same as the video game."

I know just how Carl feels.

I play this one video game in which I pull innocent bystanders out from behind the wheel of their cars, then take a little joyride, during which I may, or may not (it all depends on my mood) mow down a street walker or two before leading police on a high-speed pursuit that culminates in several of Sin City's finest going down in a hail of automatic weapon fire.

And the one time I tried that outside of the virtual world . . . well, it DEFINITELY didn't work out the same as the video game.