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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Here's a question.
Say you are sitting in a bar with your buddies, and you get into an argument with another patron. He is a regular, and has a lot of friends there. He attacks you, but you back off while his friends are egging everything on. Suddenly, out of nowhere a cup of beer comes flying and hits you in the face.
What would you do?
A lot of people will say that they would turn and walk out, but I would be sure that in most people it is a 50/50 chance that you would go after the guy who threw it instead.
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Get real. Your example is nothing like what actually went on. We're not talking about people in a bar. We're talking about "professional" athletes. What if your doctor did shit like that? I damn sure would find a new one before my next check-up.
To the people that think the fans are responsible, do me a favor and let someone kick you in the nuts 10-20 times. Perhaps they started the feud so to speak, but they did not ignite it. Fans are shitty everywhere. I went to a few college football games and in my experience, the fans were much worse than most sporting events. A few times I had beer thrown onto me by some drunk dumbass that decides it would be fun to toss his liquor into the stands. Did I punch the guy out? No. Do you know why? Because I would go to jail.
It seems like when you are making around 5 millions dollars or more(every player in this Pacer-Piston fued was), you could shut the fuck up and try to handle to situation appropriately. I wouldn't think that someone would be stupid enough to deck someone on television like that. I guess I was wrong.
Players are not supposed to take abuse, but they are not suppose to instigate more problems as well. It wasn't right for the guy to throw ice at him. I'm sure a number of the fans are drunk or low class shit heads. Maybe both. What do you expect? Like Artest, I would have been pissed, but I wouldn't deck someone because of it.
On a side note, for Artest or Jermaine O'neal's (close to 15million a year) salary, you can throw ice at me all you want.