Episode 160: Athletes and Fans Going Head to Head

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Grant Napear

Football, Sports, Basketball

4.7 • 944 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

It seems that our athletes, particularly in the NBA, are having more and more issues with fans at the games. This past week we saw kyrie Irving of the Nets flip off the fans in Boston. Where do we draw the line? What type of behavior is acceptable for the fans and in return how should the players react to fans comments? This issue seems to be becoming more and more prevalent. I think it is a bad look for the NBA when players take matters into their own hands. What is the solution? Do our athletes today have too much power? is this another example of becoming "woke"? I examine these issues in today's podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.4	moving towards being woke as it relates to what they're hearing in the stands.
1:06.3	The latest incident came on Sunday with Kyrie Irving flipping off the fans.
1:12.4	But this is nothing new this has been going on for
1:16.2	many many many years actually if you go back to the early 1900s you can find examples of athletes saying enough is enough how about
1:27.6	Thai Cobb back in I think 1918 assaulted a handicap fan who was heckling the out fielder.
1:37.0	Cobb was ejected, indefinitely suspended, and at first was fined $50 and then thanks to a strike from his teammates who actually did not like Ty Cobb in which they fielded a team of college and stay-unlotte players in the next game. Tycob's suspension was lifted back in the early 1900s.
1:57.4	How about Mad Max, you remember Vernon Maxwell? Maxwell had a fan make a comment about his wife, okay, involving a miscarriage that Vernon's wife had, and Maxwell went after the guy knocked him out, broke the
2:17.6	fans jaw and then ended up being suspended for 10 games and was fined $20,000. You have the malice at the palace.
2:29.2	Ron Artest, right? Getting a cup of water thrown on him and then all hell broke loose with
2:36.4	Germain O'Neill and of course it was an ugly ugly incident, the malice at the
2:41.4	palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
2:43.5	And now we get back to Kyrie Irving on Sunday.
2:47.0	Of course, if you were watching a game, you might even have been able to hear the Kyrie sucks chance going on throughout the contest of course Kyrie Irving played for two years in Boston
2:56.6	I'm going to get into the history in just a little bit but he gave the bird to the fans and then after the game
3:05.5	Kyrie Irving had to say a lot about what happened
3:09.7	all right he was very open
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