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Thread: Anybody Else Not Amused By This?
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01-26-2012, 10:24 PM #13
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Couldn't agree more. I get that fans who were Colts fans will always feel the pain that they had something so important literally snatched away in the night. And I don't think that should ever be forgotten, but there's times where it seems a tad ungrateful towards the fantastic team that Baltimore now has.
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01-26-2012, 10:42 PM #14
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It's one thing to tell people to not be oversensitive, but telling them to have a "sense of humor" about it is appalling. There is nothing remotely funny or clever about that, it's merely insulting.
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01-26-2012, 10:53 PM #15
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Pretty ballsy by the Sun.
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I'm old enough that the move ripped my heart out.
But this does not bother me. The cartoon is just lame. That kind of thing was funny like... the first year we had the internet.
Anyway, just think: if old drunk Irsay had stayed in Baltimore longer he might have become buddies with Peter Angelos and sold the Colts to him instead of leaving them to his son. Think we'd be riding a 4-year playoff streak in that scenario? Count your blessings.
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01-27-2012, 12:34 AM #17
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I had my heart broken in the middle of the snowy night like many of us, but I thought this was cute. It was a good try; kinda failed, but still a good try. Why can't we at least sometimes have fun with cultural narratives like this? Even if the attempt is kinda lame.
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01-27-2012, 09:36 AM #19Veteran Poster
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Agreed.
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01-27-2012, 09:37 AM #20
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And this was exactly my point.
I'm not overly sensitive in the least (as people that know me can attest), but I thought this was done in very poor taste by the local newspaper at a time when most of it's subscribers are still stinging a little from last Sundays game result.
I tend to equate this piece to the dickheads that thought it would be "cute" and "amusing" to hoist up a Mayflower flag on the tailgate parking lot when the Colts were playing here back in the 2006 playoffs.
Nobody really thought that was amusing or a clever attempt at humor either on that lot.Will Die A Ravens Fan!!
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01-27-2012, 10:48 AM #22
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This just shows us that the people running The Sun are completely out of touch with Baltimore and its sports.
Is it a big deal? To some, I find it insensitive. It is just plain stupid. It isn't funny, I can accept things that are insensitive as funny in some way but this just is not. It is weak as comedy all by itself. In the moderator's section somebody brought up a poster signing up as "Wideleft" recently. I can see that as offensive but I can also see it as funny, I chuckled a bit at it. So I have a sense of humor about stuff like this.
But this? Really stupid to offend a large number of people with something that just is not funny.
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01-27-2012, 12:03 PM #23
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I grew up in a Baltimore Colts household and went to games with season tickets from 74-82. It absolutely sucked to lose the Colts for me. To go 13 years without a team and an even mild interest in NFL football other than betting games also sucked. The truth is we are much better off with our current organization and now going on close to 30 years, I have far moved beyond the Colts.
I don't see much humor in the photo as it is probably more intended to point out irony that be funny. Good riddance Chuck...you're now the enemy.
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Since it's the local paper; it was unnecessary and they obviously knew they would get a reaction.
However, Indy is a complete mess, Manning is gone, they have huge cap issues and it's very unlikely they'll see that level of success again for a long time
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