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01-23-2013, 11:05 AM #25
Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
Unfortunately, we live in a world with people with so many different thought processes. Without the variances in those processes, there would be no crime, hatred, etc. Unfortunately, that is not how the human race is built. My belief is that we must continue to seek out the "nice people" to relate with because we cannot make large scale changes to humanity. Sad, but it is life.
The most important thing is that the majority of "nice people" seek to do this. Again, human nature points us in that direction as well.
Having said all that, let's go kick some arse in the Super Bowl.
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01-23-2013, 11:33 AM #26Rookie Poster
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Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
It's funny you said that because when I went to a Mets/Yankees game at Shea Stadium back in the day I had my Mets stuff on, again at a home game, and was cussed out and had stuff thrown at me on more than once occasion. I didn't say anything to instigate or say anything after because I was there to watch the game, but my experience with Yankee fans has been very bad. I had a similar experience in Montreal during an Expo's/Mets game only difference is I was about 10 when i went to the game in Montreal and still got cussed out. Must be different respect for different fan bases.
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01-23-2013, 01:55 PM #27
Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
Uh, you must not have been in Glen Burnie lately. Like everyone said above, don't generalize or stereotype everyone based on one or two people. While I'm a tad overweight, I don't smoke (ok, cigars), have a degree in IT and consider everyone better than myself. I've lived in GB pretty much all my life and while there are a few bad areas (2 or 3 like every city), the people are nice, hard-working folks.
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01-23-2013, 03:48 PM #28Pro Bowl Poster
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Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
My opinion, FWIW, is that it's a bit stereotyping to lump an entire fanbase into the + or - category based upon what is hopefully a small sample of knuckleheads.
But to address NCR's comment(s) on the banana throwing incidents at soccer games (and I know there have been other similar types of taunts) as well as JAB's question about what can be done --
FIFA (the world governing body for soccer) has done some stuff to try and display an official and very visible message of support for fair play and "ethnics" (my bad attempt at a pun) by publishing codes of conduct and ethics, as well as publicizing and supporting activities to just say no to discrimination. Here's a link to some information. If you happen to tune into some of the international games, you'll see both teams helping to display a very visible banner such as the one at the link, "Say No to Racism". Perhaps the NFL could take some notes and maybe develop some simialr type of program.
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01-23-2013, 04:04 PM #29
Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
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01-23-2013, 04:04 PM #30Rookie Poster
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Re: Torrey Taunted in N.E. about Brother's Death..SERIOUSLY??
I understand that every city has some horrible fans, ours included. The fact is, that when Torrey's brother passed earlier this year, a POS pats fan actually stooped to that level and mocked him about it on twitter. Then no other team's fans stooped that low for the rest of the year, not even steelers fans. Not until we went back and played that same team again and now the same fans have stooped that low yet again.
I really don't have much respect for Boston area fans.
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