Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Poor Common Sense: Can It Attract Sympathy?
What in blue blazes was a Montreal Canadiens fan doing in BOSTON - when the game took place back in Montreal? Granted you can be a fan of any team you want, no matter what your geographical situation is, as I am the opposite of the misguided geek in question... (A Boston fan in enemy territory, for those of you who can't figure it out!)
Was he "left behind" when the Habs and their flock of rowdy, class-less, rambuctious fans "ascended" back to Morontown aka Montreal?
It is possible that he was indeed a Bostonian who is simply so wayward that he roots for what is, clearly, the bad guy - that can happen, even in the best families, you know...
Unfortunately for him, he chose the wrongest day, time and place (Causeway Street) to parade around while wearing his colors - and paid the price for all the brutish oafish Canadiens fans who had invaded the TD Bank Garden just last Saturday night, when the Boston Bruins scored a succession of spectacular goals in the third period to take the game and stave off elimination - positioning themselves in a plausible way to eliminate the Montreal arch-rival again, as they did most years during Cam Neely's playing time (all but one, in fact.)
While Habs fans didn't hesitate to shove and spit at Boston fans on the streets of Montreal, two frustrated B's fans lost their heads when they saw a Habs jersey - and let him have it. Big time too. The attack was brutal, reports say, and the Canadien kid is lucky to be ALIVE. (Well, FITTING, really - so are the Montreal Canadiens EXTREMELY LUCKY to be alive in the playoffs still...! But I digress...)
To think that this misguided geeky kid could have had NO PROBLEMS AT ALL - if he had stayed home, watched the game, rejoiced in private if he so thinks that it truly is fit to do so when the unworthy, overrated, "dumb-lucky" team steals victory in a best-of-7 series yet again... In brief, he could have played it low profile and would have avoided aaaaaaaaall the discomfort he is feeling now, in a Boston hospital, if he had remained, basically, a CLOSETED CANADIENS FAN stuck in a superior sprawling city!
For, no matter what they say in this day and age of political correctness, closets are NOT just for brooms - no!
And, since they came up in the "convo" here, may there NEVER again be any talk of "sweeps" and "brooms" when the Bruins are concerned, Canadiens fans! The Boston Bruins proved that they were as much the contenders that you are; and if we can't sweep you (although we did do it, as recently as 1992!) you shouldn't proclaim you will us, not even after 13 spaced-out games of absurd luck against us... capisce?
Ah, and in closing - the city of Boston is indeed your superior in every way, Montreal; Boston is superior culturally, historically, geographically, esthetically, economically, technologically - you name it! They have four major sports franchises (and others to boot) to your single last one left: the Habs. You've always been envious of Boston and admit defeat to anyone else EXCEPT Boston. The only other town you felt this visceral hatred for and obvious envy about was your closest rival geographically (and truly of "your level" - which is low) - Québec! You envied Quebec City's better looks (I mean, only chunks of Old Montreal come close - and it's basically just ONE STREET!) and greater and more significant history - the works! It is very bad manners to be so envious; very much like the riff-raff, yes. In Boston you found that there are at least two individuals who repaid you in kind - I guess the poor kid who had to pay for ALL the riff-raff (that which turns sporting events into riots) was simply "at the wrong place at the wrong time" indeed.
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An excerpt of the article about the incident related here...
The good news for Jean Pierre Masse is that he was not killed during his recent trip to Boston.
Somehow, this 28-year-old gentleman from Montreal managed to survive what one witness described as two Adam Vinatieri-like boots to the head as he lay sprawled on Causeway Street Tuesday night, shortly after the Bruins [team stats] lost to the Canadiens.
One cop estimated the pool of blood that spilled into the gutter from Mr. Masse’s head covered about 18 inches. He was rushed to Mass. General for treatment, but has apparently gone back home, where attending a hockey game is not a lethal experience.
The bad news for the rest of us is that Patrick O’Brien of Winchester is only 21. This means he will likely attend many more Bruins games in the future, though he will have to shell out for another Jason Allison No. 41 black and gold game jersey.
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There you go; that Bruins fan is clearly not representative of the majority of them - he still thinks Jason Allison, of all players (who's renounced Boston) is with the club...!?
Okay then - some more of the Boston Herald's Peter Gelzinis reporting of this vicious attack...
Truly spurred on by a Habs fan's lack of cautiousness and the terrible ill effects (on judgment) that alcohol tends to have...
Hugo Contant’s only connection to countryman Jean Pierre Masse was that he happened to be close enough on Causeway Street after the game to see Masse try to walk past about two dozen drunken Bruins boors.
“He (Masse) was wearing glasses,” Contant recalled yesterday. “And he had a red Canadiens shirt on. When he approached them, they began yelling things like, ‘Go home, you French (expletive)’ - things like that. I heard (Masse) laugh and say, ‘We don’t want to fight . . . we don’t want any trouble,’ as he tried to pass. Then someone punched him once, maybe twice, in the face. He went down and his eyeglasses came off.
“That is when I see this other man in the Bruins shirt walk up and kick him in the head, while the man was still laying in the street,” Contant said. “And then he kicked him again in the face. That’s when I ran to him, because I thought they would kill him. When I got to him, I thought he was dead. That is when I screamed, ‘Look what you’ve done!’ ”
Welcome to Boston, city of champions.
Hugo Contant’s account of Tuesday night’s mauling was corroborated almost word for word by a South Boston gentleman, whose love affair with hockey was eclipsed only by his disgust at what he saw take place on Causeway Street.
“What I witnessed wasn’t just an assault, but an attempt to murder,” said the Southie laborer, who was on a coffee break at a nearby Dunkin’ Donuts that night. “The picture I can’t get out of mind is the way (Masse’s) head bounced off the curb when the guy in the Allison shirt kicked him. I’ve seen lots of brawls in my life, but this was real ugly, not to mention cowardly. ”
The laborer, who requested anonymity, said Tuesday night’s street savagery in the vicinity of Half-Time Pizza was the culmination of a weekend of classless behavior. “For a while, I thought Bruins fans could show some class and act gracious. Then, Sunday night, as I’m making my way into the game, I see some local knuckleheads get just close enough to spit on the backs of a group wearing Montreal shirts. Of course, they weren’t even aware they were being spit on. To say nothing of the nutbag who decided to urinate on a few Canadiens fans.
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Hey - again, this is NOTHING that Canadiens fans wouldn't do to Bruins fans - ON TOP OF STEALING VICTORY FROM THEM, which, in my book, makes it twice as despicable.
I am talking about the urinating and spitting, of course - but the sucker punching too.
Now those who detract by calling these out-of-control Boston fans such names as "boors" (too easy) and "blind drunk cowardly losers" should have seen and compared with what Montreal fans did - in alleged VICTORY...
There's good and rotten apples EVERYWHERE, folks...
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