There is an Ancient Greek tale of hubris. In the story a king is told his baby son will kill him. He send the boy off to die in the wilderness but a Shepard saves the baby.
Years later the king crosses paths with his son. They don’t know each other but get into a fight and the king is killed. While walking to the capital city the boy also kills a monster and is hailed as a hero as the city doesn’t know he killed the king. The hero marries the queen and has children.
Only years later does the boy find out he killed his father, the queen is his mother, and his children are abominations born of incest. After these events, the boy gouges his eyes out.
Traditionally people thought these horrors caused the boy to cut his eyes out leaving him blind. Really, it’s a rational to think that such a horrific series of events would cause the boy to cut his eyes out. BUT, the truth is very different.
The truth is, the boy was told by the oracle of Delphi what mark richt’s Hurry up offense looked like and he vowed to never witness such an abomination and so he took his own eyes as, despite the horrors of his own life, nothing sounded as dreadful and pathetic as what richt put out on the field.