Last night Pittsburgh beat Nashville in the Stanley Cup Final.
It was a really interesting series in a lot of ways but mainly Tumblr took it INCREDIBLY FUCKING SERIOUSLY. There was a lot of hypocrisy on both ends to start off with.
People calling Crosby a dick on the ice (which, if what I’ve heard isn’t a gross stretch, is true, and he gets away with a lot), people calling the thing rigged, people being mad because of Nashville’s goalie chants, and so on. It was a fucking mess.
Anyway, I was fine thinking “people falsely demonizes Subban and Crosby might be a dick on the ice but he’s fine otherwise.”
And then of course I checked a non-hockey blog that has a lot of followers and people are saying that apparently people’s obsession with Nashville is bad.
According to the people on that blog, people would be calling Subban a dick if he were white. I’ve heard that people demonized Subban for things they let white people get away with off of Tumblr. Also apparently Nashville has a convicted sex offender and Pittsburgh has a black player who isn’t a dick.
Basically apparently there’s a million sides to a story and I don’t have enough information to know what to do with these contradictory accounts of the series.
Hockey is a fucking mess.
I don’t know what to think of teams and players anymore because this website has a nasty habit of fucking it all up so it’s no longer recognizable
it was rlly cool seeing the fans in nashville pile into the street. it was rlly cool hearing how loud the stadium was. it was rlly cool having country music stars get behind the predators 100%. it’s rlly cool to watch the game grow in places you don’t think it will with people you don’t think would be fans. im thankful for places like that. thankful for teams like the predators and the coyotes and the kings and the lightning and soon the knights and so many others playing hockey where people said they shouldn’t and building fan bases that include kids that find comfort and happiness and family in this dumb sport
ifesbob 