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Oh... in my book the fans are the animals. I thought I made that clear with the anailogy.
I mean, gosh, you have a million dollar plus career at stake and you want to risk it by showboating in the opposing team's stands? Why can't all players celebrate like Barry Sanders?
Eh....
We don't go onto their field, they don't come into our stands to taunt us. Seems fair. I have absolutely zero issue with a fan pouring a beer on a player who chose to rub it in our collective faces by jumping into our stands. I'd have been more disappointed if someone hadn't. And it's just a freaking beer - no actual harm done to anyone, nobody got hurt.
As you say...those players are professionals getting paid during that game to entertain fans as professionals. The fans are there as customers, being sold beer that helps to pay for that stadium and the players' salaries. Who really should be held to the higher standard during games - the beer-sotted fans occupying the seats for which they paid, or the players who are getting paid to act like professionals in public for those few hours once a week?
This isn't golf, or tennis, or the Bolshoi. It's football, and if you deliberately jump into the opposing fans stands to gloat during a blowout...you're lucky a beer is all you got.
Just my personal opinion.
I also think this is not nearly as big a deal as some in the media have made it out to be. But we got crushed, it's a long time until Monday night...so why not?
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