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2082871, RE: that's just CISM
Posted by murph71, Sat Dec-01-12 05:25 PM
>look at fights...
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>hockey its the culture
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>baseball, it's defending your team and honor
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>football and basketball, they are
>beasts...barbarians...childish...etc.
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>good old cism
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>let Chara or one of them Russians do this same crime....it
>won't reflect on the brutal nature of hockey because of CISM


It's deeper than just 'Cism, Go...

It's hypocrisy because of economics...

Yes, Hockey gets a pass because it's virtually all white...

But its even crazier with the NFL and NBA, two of my favorite sports...

It def. helps that the NFL still has a majority of its main headliners ( i.e. QB's) white...Payton, Manning, Brees, A. Rogers, ect...So it's a sport that doesn't look too "black" in the big spots...But race comes second to economics in the NFL...

Football's fans and the media will always look the other way as long as the NFL dominates culturally (fantasy football, Sunday gaming, ect...) and the economics (skyrocketing money brought in by gambling, which is the real reason it truly is America's game) as well as the billions made in NFL revenue make such points moot...

An NFL player can kill someone in a drunk driving accident (which again, happened) and it will be viewed as "shit happens"...BTW, I think that's the right way to view such a thing...A whole sport should not be judged on what some individuals do..

It would be cool if the NBA was viewed in the same light...