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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Question for the middle age man:  were you equally offended by the Capitals and Alex Ovechkin after they won the Stanley Cup?[/quote]

Yes his behavior did bother me (but not as much):

thought he was obnoxious and played the fool, and his drunken behavior was boorish, and I don't like he behaved like a champion either.

However, I wasn't as offended because he wasn't playing for national team (i.e. representing the U.S.) and he didn't try to make himself out to be some social justice warrior because he won an athletic championship. [/quote]

To refresh your memory, during the Caps' Stanley Cup winning season, several players "got political" by, among other things, repeatedly speaking up in support of the national anthem protests and the social justice reasons behind the protest, several of them said BEFORE they won the Stanley Cup that they would not visit the White House if invited because, to quote some of the players, the president is "straight-up racist and sexist," and Ovechkin announced via his social media the creation of a social movement in support of Putin - he called it Putin Team - and then continued to pump "Putin Team" all season.  Granted, Alex is Russian and was supporting the president of his country, but to do so while living in the US and playing in DC with all that was going on with Russia at that time was a very bold move and was getting very "political" when he did not need to do so.

That is to say nothing of the very public drunken behavior of the Caps as they partied day-and-night around Vegas and DC, including Ovechkin dropping the f-bomb during his speech after the victory parade, or a number of players (Holtby, Connolly, Smith-Pelly, etc.) actually skipping the White House visit.

I raise this, not because I was bothered by it (the opposite, I loved every minute of it), but to point out that a local team beloved by its fan base, and the casual fans that jumped on the bandwagon, did a LOT of the things that people are complaining about with respect to certain of the USWNT players.  Yet I do not recall the uproar and all of these negative comments directed at Ovechkin, Holtby, Smith-Pelly, etc. for their actions or political stances.

So what makes these women different, other than the fact that they are women?[/quote]

Now it’s time for our anti-MR friend to claim it’s different because they’re a NATIONAL team. When really, as the article he posted makes clear, women and minorities should just shut up about injustice and be grateful for the scraps they’re thrown.[/quote]

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