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JS© wrote:DocEmrick wrote:Well...it was just a banana. I still think it was intended as a racial thing, but I would have been more alarmed and offended at watermelon or fried chicken being tossed though.
Ever try to sneak a watermelon into a game?
Gaucho wrote:A gay slur against a straight person is still offensive - to gay people. Regardless of the fact that the average straight person thinks it's no big deal.
shmenguin wrote:calling avery a name (in what was thought to be a non-public conversation) is an attack on avery and avery alone. throwing a banana peel on the ice in a televised, public forum is a message to an entire race that they don't belong with white people on a hockey rink.
Gaucho wrote:No, it's just a sign of thoughtlessness.
shafnutz05 wrote:Yeah, you really just have to apeel to their common sense in this situation.
Well there are two thoughts i have about this. Eithor the person that threw the banana it really does hate black people and really doesn't want them in the NHL or I could just as easily see this as someone who wants attention and look... he got it! A drunk college kid. What if the next Tom Green or Sasha Cohen did it? It would be shockingly funny then, right?doublem wrote: There are times when people are really racist, a banana toss probably one of the best examples I have seen in hockey in my lifetime.
shafnutz05 wrote:Yeah, Simmonds was stupid to say it, but come on...I have heard the word "homo" approximately 8 million times throughout HS and college, especially in sporting environments. Does it technically make it right? No, but I don't think calling someone a homo is a sign that person hates gays or something.
Honestly, we were going back and forth for a while there," he said, without providing details. "I don't recall everything that I did say to him, but he said to me some things I didn't like. And maybe I said some things that he didn't like.
"I can't recall every single word I said."
Simmonds was asked what Avery said and if it crossed the line.
"I'm not going to rat him out," he said.
bh wrote:Well there are two thoughts i have about this. Eithor the person that threw the banana it really does hate black people and really doesn't want them in the NHL or I could just as easily see this as someone who wants attention and look... he got it! A drunk college kid. What if the next Tom Green or Sasha Cohen did it? It would be shockingly funny then, right?doublem wrote: There are times when people are really racist, a banana toss probably one of the best examples I have seen in hockey in my lifetime.
I just have a hard time in this day and age that people really actually hate people of another race. People use the stigma of certain words and actions to get reactions from other people. Sure the thrower could be a real racist, in which case I really feel bad for them, but I think there's still as good possibility that someone thought they'd be funny or were attention starved. Some how, some way, I think all involved are going to be allright and everyone is making way too big a deal of this.
llipgh2 wrote:Interesting quote from Simmonds about the verbal exchange:Honestly, we were going back and forth for a while there," he said, without providing details. "I don't recall everything that I did say to him, but he said to me some things I didn't like. And maybe I said some things that he didn't like.
"I can't recall every single word I said."
Simmonds was asked what Avery said and if it crossed the line.
"I'm not going to rat him out," he said.
So I'm guessing Avery was his typical digusting self, did cross the line, and is now playing martyr. Sniveling little rat.
llipgh2 wrote:Interesting quote from Simmonds about the verbal exchange:Honestly, we were going back and forth for a while there," he said, without providing details. "I don't recall everything that I did say to him, but he said to me some things I didn't like. And maybe I said some things that he didn't like.
"I can't recall every single word I said."
Simmonds was asked what Avery said and if it crossed the line.
"I'm not going to rat him out," he said.
So I'm guessing Avery was his typical digusting self, did cross the line, and is now playing martyr. Sniveling little rat.
canaan wrote:llipgh2 wrote:Interesting quote from Simmonds about the verbal exchange:Honestly, we were going back and forth for a while there," he said, without providing details. "I don't recall everything that I did say to him, but he said to me some things I didn't like. And maybe I said some things that he didn't like.
"I can't recall every single word I said."
Simmonds was asked what Avery said and if it crossed the line.
"I'm not going to rat him out," he said.
So I'm guessing Avery was his typical digusting self, did cross the line, and is now playing martyr. Sniveling little rat.
wayne simmonds isnt a saint on the ice. they are both morons.
doublem wrote:What's going to happen when Sid calls someone a F? Will everyone crap the bed?
doublem wrote:What's going to happen when Sid calls someone a F? Will everyone crap the bed?
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