Uproar over Hanging Kermit

[Beck Water]

1 hour ago, Buffalo716 said:

Kermit is an animated character not a human lol 

 

True but irrelevant to the point I was addressing

[The Helmet of]

3 hours ago, Beck Water said:

 

May I gently and respectfully suggest that, unless you naturally spend your day surfing around the internet, you may not have reasonable data about whether or not there's an uproar?  Links shared to make the point that while folks have the right to be all *shrug* "meh" about it, it is legitimately a source of upset and anger for some people.  These are the result of a brief Google search on 2 terms.  So no, "the uproar" is not strongest here, and I don't think we can legit judge just how few or many people are really upset about it.

https://athlonsports.com/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/patrick-mahomes-brittany-mahomes-want-answers-alarming-bills-incident

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14102243/taylor-swift-brittany-mahomes-consoled-kermit-frog.html

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/photo-buffalo-bills-fans-crossed-the-line-with-their-disgusting-use-of-patrick-mahomes-kermit-the-frog-doll-before-game-vs-chiefs/ar-AA1ufyh0?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1

https://www.tmz.com/2024/11/17/bills-fans-hang-kermit-puppet-mahomes-jersey-chiefs-game/

https://www.theroot.com/black-twitter-responds-to-buffalo-bills-fans-lynching-a-1851701631

 

I’m an expat living in a country of ~65 million and I’m absolutely positive that about 0.1% of the population even know who Mahomes is. If we take the whole continent into consideration, the data would probably be about the same.

 

Quite a few more actually know who Travis is though, thanks to Taylor Swift spreading her soft power to all corners of the globe.

 

These sites for the most part (TMZ) are examples of clickbait rage bubbles which aim to profit off of manufactured controversy. If someone is offended, I don’t care. If someone thinks it’s funny, I don’t care. I seriously don’t care.

 

But for all those who care, fair play to you brothers and sisters. 😁

[Buffalo716]

11 minutes ago, Beck Water said:

 

True but irrelevant to the point I was addressing

Eh I'm sure there's fans in Kansas City who are upset 

 

And it certainly is not classy ...

 

But this is coming from a franchise that does a Indian war chant in an area where the trail of tears occurred ... While it didn't go through Kansas City Missouri it went through Missouri

 

If Washington Redskins was offensive... And all the warrior and Indian team names across the country are being removed 

 

Honestly the mocking war chant is more disgraceful than I think any name 

 

Edited 4 hours ago by Buffalo716

[Thurman#1]

On 11/21/2024 at 9:32 PM, f0neguy said:

Prior to the game Sunday someone hung a toy Kermit in a Mahomes jersey by a rope.  Now multiple outlets are posting what a terrible disturbing act that was.  Granted, most everyone reading this on this forum is a Bills fan but are others bothered by this?  I see it as fans being fans and it’s not a big deal.  Agree or disagree?

 

 

Not a huge deal. 

 

Yes, it's over the line. 

[holla83]

On 11/21/2024 at 7:33 AM, Ya Digg? said:

Flip the script-if a Chiefs fan did that to a Josh Allen doll how would you want people to react?

Wouldn't have made the news