At Training Camp - Joke or Not Funny At All [THREAD CLOSED] (1 Viewer)

[CapitalCitySaint]

So reasons #1 and #3 are essentially saying the fan brought all of that on himself, and #2 is you reading Brandon Coleman's mind. Did you have a chat with him that day? Direct Message him on Twitter? Read deep meaning into his apoLOLgy?

That's your interpretation; not what I said.

And no, I did not speak directly with him. But as you get older, sometimes you have to just take things at face value and determine how important it really is and move on.

 

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I do understand NFL fans wearing jerseys. I understand that they feel like they want to support a certain player, show team spirit, etc. I don't understand why grown men feel the need to do that by wearing a jersey with another man's name on the back.

Considering a fairly large portion of NFL fans are grown men......meh, forget it. I don't think I have to re-state the obvious contradiction here .

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

lol

 

[crosswatt]

Agreed.......I don't wear jerseys either, simply because I choose not to spend my money on that. But I'm willing to bet if I listed every expense I had over the last year, plenty of people would rip some of them apart and question why I'd waste my money on such nonsense. The fact that people are trying to pretend it's strange that a guy would go to SAINTS TRAINING CAMP with a SAINTS JERSEY is pathetic.




So it's ok for Coleman to disrespect the guy (and waste his time) by signing a jersey that clearly wasn't intended for him to sign, because, well, men shouldn't be wearing other men's jerseys anyway. Also, because you don't value the jersey to the extent that the owner of that jersey did, that makes the prank "harmless" or "funny".


I'm beginning to think several people in this thread are seriously unable to wrap their heads around the fact that this really isn't even really about the jersey....the jersey just happened to play a role in it. In their minds, Brandon Coleman did nothing disrespectful, and that guy got what he deserved for being an autograph-seeking jersey-wearing adult male. Therefore, he just needs to get over it, because he is "owed" nothing. Like I said previously........Brandon is just a kid, so I don't fault him for incorrectly thinking this was all one big funny joke..........but some of these mid 30-year olds on upward parroting the same thing is just pretty sad.

I'm curious as to why this is a big deal to you, but something like the Washington Redskins name issue is something that people should "find a way to make peace with it" if it bothers them.

 

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I'm curious as to why this is a big deal to you, but something like the Washington Redskins name issue is something that people should "find a way to make peace with it" if it bothers them.

Because there is alot of historical football value in the Redskins name, and quite frankly, many of those protesting it probably weren't alive when that name was first given to the team.

This fan showed up to support a team he loved and got punked, unnecessarily, by a player who has yet to even establish himself in the NFL yet.

See the difference?

 

[crosswatt]

Because there is alot of historical football value in the Redskins name, and quite frankly, many of those protesting it probably weren't alive when that name was first given to the team.

This fan showed up to support a team he loved and got punked, unnecessarily, by a player who has yet to even establish himself in the NFL yet.

See the difference?

Not really. And I don't think you do either.

Personally I commend Dan Snyder for telling those overly-sensitive types to get bent. It's a crying shame that people can't just go about their everyday lives without being "offended" by something that's clearly not intended to be offensive. And "intent" to me is what you have to look at.

 

[IceHot]

Wearing a jersey with someone else's name on it is a form of individualism? It's like saying "check out all of these cool things that other people created, but I use to show how original I am."

I don't really care about the jersey thing in earnest, but this argument is pretty thin.

Of course it is, the same way wearing a Metalica shirt is or a shirt that says a mans name on it like "Jimmy Buffett".

 

[kcirdor]

Not really. And I don't think you do either.

 

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Not really. And I don't think you do either.

Well, in your mind, apparently it's ok to deface someone's merchandise as long as the "intent" is for there to be a joke, so I'm not surprised that you wouldn't see the differences in "intent" there. Which is why I'm not going to waste further time debating this with you .

In the meantime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zJeGf-gpc

 

[kcirdor]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zJeGf-gpc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

 

[CapitalCitySaint]

Well, in your mind, apparently it's ok to deface someone's merchandise as long as the "intent" is for there to be a joke, so I'm not surprised that you wouldn't see the differences in "intent" there. Which is why I'm not going to waste further time debating this with you .

In the meantime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1zJeGf-gpc

Are you reading Snyder's mind? Did you have a chat with him that day? Direct Message him on Twitter? Read deep meaning into his non-apoLOLgy?

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

Nevaaaa gonna give you uppppppppppppppp

 

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Are you reading Snyder's mind? Did you have a chat with him that day? Direct Message him on Twitter? Read deep meaning into his non-apoLOLgy?

Considering the Redskins were around 30 years before Dan Snyder wet his first diaper, I didn't have to .

LOL @ people actually trying to turn this into a Redskins debate.

 

[crosswatt]

Considering the Redskins were around 30 years before Dan Snyder wet his first diaper, I didn't have to .

LOL @ people actually trying to turn this into a Redskins debate.

I actually was trying to point out that you usually have zero patience with "whiny" or "overly-sensitive" people always getting offended at things that weren't meant that way. But that apparently missed the mark big time.

 

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I actually was trying to point out that you usually have zero patience with "whiny" or "overly-sensitive" people always getting offended at things that weren't meant that way. But that apparently missed the mark big time.

Well you didn't have to dig into a year-old post to point that out....you could have just asked. I do have low patience for that (which is why I had to LOL @ being labeled "politically correct" earlier by someone else)..........but I think this particular fan had a legit gripe.

If Brandon Coleman squirted him with a water gun or something, then yeah....prank...and dude can get over it. I think signing a jersey that wasn't intended for him to sign is basically defacing property and showing disrespect. Perhaps your opinion differs in that regard. Either way, we'll have to agree to disagree on this one.