Sitting in 100 level seats and getting questioned about whose tickets I had (or didn't).

Or in the old days with 300 level tix and being asked if we were really hockey fans thru the first period.

Wow. That doesn't occur to me.

Were you a hockey fan?

Hockey is the backwater of sportfandom in America. Not surprised by your ugly experiences.

Been one since the days of Tony O.

Until the newish Hawk fans demanded a weird purity test.

My last post was to Hawaii You.

You never talk much about hockey. I've watched for 10 ish years and my dad was a fan when I was young. He stopped watching at some point. I still feel like an outsider.

Who's your all time fav hockey and hawks player? Do any of your sons like it?

Hockey is the backwater of sportfandom in America. Not surprised by your ugly experiences.

If I could lend one quibble, it would be to release their names publicly, and give the other four teams in town the option of banning them from their games as well. This kind of ugliness should result at least in public shaming and in reality, loss of job and a few other things. You may say it’s thought police, but there are few companies and agencies and whatever else that wants to be associated with that kind of prejudice and hatred. And that’s what it is.

Of course, what the Hawks are really terrified of is the backlash from the unwashed section of their fanbase. And for a team that’s already seeing empty seats pop up at their games, they’re probably petrified of more. But what we know is that those fans aren’t really going anywhere and will be the first to buy the new jerseys and two, they’re probably the types to spout racist shit and are the exact type of people you just said won’t be tolerated in the arena.

This kind of ugliness should result at least in public shaming and in reality, loss of job and a few other things. You may say it’s thought police, but there are few companies and agencies and whatever else that wants to be associated with that kind of prejudice and hatred. And that’s what it is.

Oh, if anyone was wondering what the realest badass to come out of Francis Parker thought,

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What are the "few other things" beyond making these people unemployable for life? (Or is this the Julie DiCaro deal (probably) where you get banned from all the good white-collar jobs but Sam Fels will still allow you to dig graves or wipe asses for minimum wage?) Prison time? Reeducation camp? Rick Telander editorials?


Who should the Hawks cater to: a small group of the "unwashed" who have had tickets since the Chicago Stadium days, or a small group of Twitter brats who complain that there's not enough Run the Jewels playing during stoppages? Guess what: NEITHER GROUP is going anywhere; as much as Sam shits on the Blackhawks in order to curry favor with tattooed girls who claim they have cartilage disorders that make it hurt to lie in bed, he's still stuck to this team and still makes money writing books and newsletters about the Blackhawks. If the team disgusts him as much as he pretends it does, he wouldn't do those things, but he does, he just wants to look good on a social media platform for black teens and sociopathic nerds.

In my opinion, people that demand actions like this forget where there are in the larger picture of time. They are the villagers going after the Frankenstein monster or the people screaming witch in New England.

Their position that their somewhat popular notion in this meaningless small snapshot in the vast reality of time is everything and must be is so messed up. At some time everything will change (it has to based on the past) and the systems you sought to tear down will no longer be there to save you from that if necessary.

It's like your arguments intentionally get worse every day. The bot is set to trollin'.

Hockey is the backwater of sportfandom in America. Not surprised by your ugly experiences.

Fells has been on out of step dork since the days he was Young Sam making out of step dork calls to the Score. It was pretty apparent what he would grow to be back in those days. Actually he is the less successful version of what you would have expected him to be as an adult.

It's such a shitlib argument: it combines the worst of neo-Puritanism and devotion to market economics.

I don't know about all that, but what I will put forth is this weird idea Sam's peddling that the Blackhawks are a uniquely evil sports organization. The sad truth is that they're probably somewhere in the middle if not a pretty good one. For the most part, you give them money and they give you entertainment, the money you put in goes into the roster's payroll, and along the way they won three championships. They haven't threatened to move if they don't get sizable taxpayer bailouts like the Coyotes, Panthers, and Blue Jackets. They haven't been at the forefront of lockouts like the Bruins. They manage the Indian Head controversy about as diplomatically as any sports team can. Their charitable arm appears to be quite generous and even was under Bill. They were vindicated in not unpersoning Patrick Kane. I don't know what you can ask of them that they haven't done, other than be an NBA team, because nothing makes woke Twitter kids hit their knees and get to sucking like the NBA. There are some bad, bad actors among NHL ownership. Previous owners have gone to prison and some current owners should. But our friendly neighborhood liquor baron is really just sort of a boring rich guy with a cool toy who acts pretty much as you'd expect a boring rich guy with a cool toy to act.

I'm sure it feels good and journalisty to rail against an evil institution, but I don't think the Blackhawks are that.

Cool story.

I meant that post.

You have to be incredibly stupid to get banned from a pro stadium.

Yeah, that point is slightly different and hard to disagree with.

tommy picking up the mantle this morning. Good work tommy. Many appreciate it.

This is somewhat related, but I don't even think background checks for employment should be legal. Here is a person applying for a job who isn't currently in prison. That's all you need to know about his background beyond his skills for the job.