Fair fight, ya think?
Y’know, professional athletes should grow a thick skin when it comes to jeering, insults, and booing from the fans. Fans in every spectator sport have done this since Julius Caesar’s day.
In a recent NBA playoff game, Lakers star LeBron James took off on a courtside Nuggets fan who called him a crybaby for objecting rather too strenuously to the referee slapping him with a foul (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/04/lebron-james-attempts-scare-woman-stands-ends-up/). James went over there and made like he was going to assault the woman, causing her to cringe. That seemed to satisfy him.
I used to love the NBA, back when Knicks guard Dick Barnett said basketball was “like chess, only a lot faster.”
Well, it ain’t like that anymore.
What if the fan countered LeBron’s physical intimidation with some intimidation of her own? “Yeah, that’s right, big boy–you come lay a hand on me! My lawyers will eat you alive! I’ll sue the Lakers and I’ll sue the NBA, too! You’ll be a mighty unpopular fella by the time I’m done with you!”
If only…
In all sports, there seem to be some athletes who believe that they are above the rest of us, and in some cases, even above the law. Hero worship has gotten out of hand.
Yes, so many things have gotten out of hand, it is mind boggling. I can’t image getting that
wound up over a stupid game- that goes for silly spectators too.
We were at a Yankee Old Timers game once, in which Roger Maris allowed some fans to position him in right field. The next pitch, the ball was hit right to him, he didn’t have to move an inch to catch it! He tipped his hat to the fans.
But that was a long time ago.
Our famed Razorbacks football and basketball teams are pretty well known. What isn’t so well known is how many of them get into trouble with the law on their own time – maybe that is true of all college teams members with big followings.