I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by 13
It sucks.
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I have.Quote:
Originally Posted by 13
It sucks.
i have no comment on the fans, i'm just amused by the 'detroit is great because it sucks so bad' vibe/attitude/mentality/what-have you.Quote:
Originally Posted by 13
and no, i have never been there, and it will probably stay that way. call me provincial and uncultured, i guess.
other than that i'm just droppin the ill ron artest skillz.
I'm Ron Artest and the world is mine
Instead of playing ball i'll be riding the pine
But to me that is just fine
Because my rap album is out tomorrow, yo! Ron artest in the house!
who am i bashing again??Quote:
Originally Posted by 13
show me. i was responding to a-wrek. just adding levity. believe me i wouldn't stand up for the people involved if it happened here either.
Levity is not allowed. Didn't you get the memo?
And I always thought it was O'Reilly who bashed the Ranger fan with the shoe, but I see that it was Milbury. Massholes represent!
There is absolutely no excuse for a professional athlete to attack a fan. The entire point of being a professional athlete is to entertain the fans. If they want to yell at you and thow beers at you, well boo hoo, I guess you can go home and cry yourself to sleep. Just don't forget to grab a few hundred dollar bills to blow your nose with.
The sole exception to this rule is when you bash a Ranger fan with his own shoe, then it's comedy.Quote:
Originally Posted by AntiSoCalSkier
Too bad you're not from Philly, I hear they got "a lot, a lotta culture" thereQuote:
Originally Posted by mildbill.
[QUOTE=mildbill.]i have no comment on the fans, i'm just amused by the 'detroit is great because it sucks so bad' vibe/attitude/mentality/what-have you.
QUOTE]
O.k. most people who like Detroit don't like it because it sucks. It's just sort of annoying to be called the worst city with the worst fans in the worst place on earth over and over again. You end up getting defensive about it much like people who live in Colorado get defensive over their annual snowfall. Then you just end up embracing you shit place in society because if you're going to be the worst than you might as well enjoy it. Then once you learn how to enjoy this place you can't understand why anyone would knock it.
I admit the idea of someone thinking something was cool because it isn't is pretty strange. I also think you are misinterperting what some people think.
Ahem!
I'd have to go so far as to say that I am one of the biggest NBA fans in this mutha. I love the NBA. It really is the only pro league that I follow and the really the only sports-related programing I regularly watch. I grew up watching the NBA and the Blazers are all that the city of Portland has ever known on a professional level.
Having said that, there is absolutely no reason EVER that a professional athlete should enter the crowd like that. I am of the opinion that R Kelly could walk down from the stands and piss on Artest and he should resist temptation to git 'em. How much money do these guys make again? Several millions should be more than enough to keep a professional attitude in any situation.
As far as the Detroit fans go, I don't think it was unique to them. But I think that Detroit, with it's impassioned fans and fever pitch atmosphere was probably a likely canidate for such a mess.
Excellent example: FartbagsQuote:
Originally Posted by A-wreck
N othing
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http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/A...29106_0240.jpg
TruWarier records.
bwaaaaaahahahahaa
TruWarier records reprazent!
My name is ron artest and i finished kindergarten
The nba is a prison and david stern is the warden
Reppin TruWarier from staples to madison square garden
If they didn't suspend me, i'd be able to afford a spellchecker, yo!
TruWarier in the house!
bill, don't make fun of the mans education. he went to and metriculated from St. Johns.
so how are his beats?
so am i to consider the spelling "TruWarier" to have some artistic merit that i'm just not picking up on?Quote:
Originally Posted by basom
I haven't been able to get to newbury comics to pick up the cd yet, but i'm sure the beats are the bomb.
well, think what you will, but it obviously exemplifies how crazy and on the edge he is.
I think it's an R&B album
don't nobody throw plastic cups at a TruWarierQuote:
Originally Posted by basom
Even if it was my grandma I would still bury her
excellent point. silly me for looking for a hint of artistic merit.Quote:
Originally Posted by A-wreck
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Originally Posted by mildbill.
that is fucking gold. GOLD!
anybody wanna comment on wtf the security there was doing while this shitstorm was brewing/happening?
I have had to organize events & you prepare for this shit., I mean c'mon.
There was a lot of security there. Watch a replay. The guys in red and/or blue golf shirts are security. They are not armed and are instructed to not touch the players.Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodsy
Pistons games are extremely mellow. Not one person was arrested at the palace when we won the championship. so nobody was expecting anything to happen in an early season pacers game.
Security cannot touch the players. So who is to stop Artest from going into the crowd? Nobody. He shouldn't have gone into the crowd in the first place.
who should have stopped the two little guys? Security. Things were pretty hectic and two guys slipped passed them. If you think there was some way to subdue the crowd and get them to stop throwing shit AFTER Artest went into the stands then you must be a security wizard. (not trying to be a dick, but I just don't think you can regain control at that point)
OH...HA ,..word on the street is that the fat dude in the grey sweater who was punching Jones, is Ben Wallace's brother.
Woodsy, honestly, if you were security director, would you foresee players bum-rushing the stands after debris was thrown at them? Fans toss shit all the time at sporting events. I'm not condoning it but that's the reality.
I don't think anyone could foresee a loose cannon like Artest bum-rushing fans.
Think about this - who's got fleeter feet? A husky security dude, or an extremely fit and angry NBA player? I guess we know the answer to that question now, eh?
Besides, it wouldn't even have been a major incident if Artest knew how to channel his anger like 99.9999% of pro athletes do. Someone get that thug some anger management. Better yet, put him in anger management with the dipshit that tossed the cup. Booya!
It sucks that it happened in Detroit because as far as Pistons games go, they're always uneventful events, (heh) even with the usual assortment of asshat hecklers. The actions of a few jackass fans that night just gave tons Pistons fans everywhere a bad rap.
Everyone is reponsible for that incident, so assigning blame is pointless.