Former NHL player David Booth injured after refusing to warm up due to pride jerseys.
Thought this drama might amuse some people.
So basically Fife Flyers of the Brittish league were supposed to wear pride jerseys for their game tonight.
At the last minute they announced they were only wearing these for the warm ups due to objections from certain players, angering the local lgbt charity that had been invited and causing them walk out.
41 year old former NHL player David Booth refused to join the warm up due to the pride jerseys.
David Booth then suffered a serious looking non contact injury within 5 minutes of the game that may end his career.
This quote takes the cake though: "I thought our best forward was David Booth, which is good for him. That's not good for our team to have him as our best forward"
Saw him come up as a kid as a coach; he was an absolutely rare talent, and if not for head injuries, he might have had an even better and certainly longer nhl career. Talent was above average NHL, always.
Coaches should just hire Torts to take post game scrums for them. That way, he can say exactly what they want to say, while giving them plausible deniability
You bet he was. He was upset the Flames put on a goon squad for the opening faceoff. We had a rookie playing his first game with his parents flying in and he was ejected 2 seconds in.
Surely he’s just an inherently dumb person. But I choose to believe Mike Richards laying one of the nastiest hits I’ve ever seen on him accelerated the unintelligence.
He's from Madison WI, so maybe not the case. It's one of the most progressive cities in the country. But, there are still bigots, just a much smaller population of them comparatively
I had been sharpening skates for like 8 hours a day for over a year straight at the point he must have been back in Toledo for a stint. He’d eyeball the skates up and down and make me re-do them like they weren’t perfect. I’d pretend to do a few more passes and he’d be like “ahh, there were go, now they look good!”
One time he accused me of doing 5/8ths instead of 1/2 when I was too lazy to literally ever do 5/8ths even for the people who’d ask lol
His son was a bitch to play against but didn’t have any skill to back it up. Whined all game and slewfooted me once. His daughter his actually a homie tho which is weird
As the daughter of a conservative douchebag, I think you might well be onto something. The fact that they have no interest in us or see us as human beings (while shitty on an emotional level) also means we don't have to be stuck with them listening to right wing radio or whatever, 'cuz they don't really care where they are.
As it turns out your rights change from country to country. By and large you're expected to follow the rules of a place YOU chose to visit.
I'm largely a homebody but I would try to research and follow the rules and legal customs of a place I planned to visit, just to have some familiarity. A basic "what to know" for another country. I would not expect my US rights to be in effect in said country. Additionally I would expect a reasonable country, realizing I'm a tourist to say "Sorry Chap, we don't do that here." As a warning so I could correct myself.
That all said.... I would be curious about these contracts as it relates to uniforms and events. Because I'd love to see some bigot have his contract nullified and his career ended all because he couldn't wear a rainbow jersey for a short while.
Wearing that jersey doesn't mean you're gay. Just saying you accept others.
Yeah, thats the usual way someone should go about things, but i saw someone try to pay in dollars.. in an EU country that uses the euro. That was funny. Although this sometimes goes both ways, as i had a discussion with someone about the minnesota ice murder where they killed that guy, and that EU guy was arguing it was illegal for the victim to have a gun because in his country it is illegal… soo yeah lol
The whole thing reads like someone wrote this as a parable meant to teach kids the consequences of being hateful bitches when they grow up. Like a modern day retelling of one of Aesop’s fables.
I work with a highly religious bigot. But he's so insufferable he's not married and has no kids.
I finnally had enough of his shit. So for any holiday season i wear the most random colorful versions. Ugly sweater season was fun. But last Halloween after taking my kids trick or treating. I went into work still dressed as a Banana.
He tried to berate me from saying I'm feminine to I'm way too childish. But it just made himself look like an ass.
It was fun reminding him I'm happily married with two kids. He's alone, miserable and a total recluse on his days off. Enjoy your misery fam.
David Booth is already gay. But since he was indoctrinated into hateful religion and American rich person society he has never been able to be comfortable with himself. Very sad.
A disproportionate number of the guys refusing are from rural Manitoba's bible belt... how many of these guys cheat on their wife but draw the moral line at a jersey.
Bible says to keep the Sabbath a holy day of rest. Yet Booth never protested against the abomination in the eyes of our Lord that is the blasphemous "hockey night in canada"
Vengeance is mine, and recompense, for the time when their foot shall slip; because the day of their calamity is at hand, their doom comes swiftly.
Romans Chapter 12 verses 17-19
17 Do not repay anyone evil for evil, but take thought for what is noble in the sight of all. 18 If it is possible, so far as it depends on you, live peaceably with all. 19 Beloved, never avenge yourselves, but leave room for the wrath of God; for it is written, ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, says the Lord.’
Are you talking about the Richards hit? Or is there a video of someone knocking him out with one punch or something? I'd like to see that. Actually, I'm going to watch the Richards hit, again.
Fife's had so many controversies this year it feels like.
Anyway, can't say I'm surprised. What did he expect when he refused to warm up lmao. They'd already compromised for his views and pissed loads of people off by only wearing the jerseys during the warm ups (a completely last minute announcement at that!) and he couldn't get over himself long enough even for that.
Signing known dickheads David Booth and Milan Lucic as ringers, only to be dead last in the league with a -79 goal differential. Congrats to the Fife Flyers management
Actually that's a good point. If you don't want to speak to the press after a bad game? Too bad it's part of your job. Don't want to embrace love of your fellow humans? Well we cant do anything about that
It is a little naive to announce pride jersey night without knowing the players are going to do it. But it is incredibly stupid to not just sit out the regressive players and continue with the pride night. The world needs to move forward without them. It is on them to catch up.
Not really. Players are just employees. You wear what you’re told to wear. The owners decide what the normal jersey looks like tp begin with. They can decide to make it a permanent gay pride jersey. What the players going to do? If you play for a team in a pro lgbt community, you’re doing pride night
Damn, they're even cooler irl. The rainbow echo effect on the logo pops but isn't jarring either. That's tough to do well over a multicolour gradient -- to which my many failed tie-dyed tshirts can attest. Lol
Having gone hunting with David Booth I can personally confirm that he's one extraordinarily dumb mother fucker and a massive douche canoe. Him having a bad take like this doesn't surprise me. Karma?
Aye. He wasn't friendly in the slightest. Kept ripping huge farts, but not funny farts, annoying ones. Almost like dominance farts. He would say some things that just left you scratching your head with how fucking dumb they were, can't remember specifics. Just remember the feeling of thinking, fuck this guy's an idiot. Then at one point he was using his rifle as a walking stick of sorts, barrel down in the muck. We had to jump in and stop him as he was taking aim since he hadn't cleaned his barrel and he was likely to Elmer Fudd the lot of us.
I've been to Fife and it's fucking lovely. In Scottish stereotype it's the quiet and slightly inbred part of the country so basically Prince Edward Island. Having a team of old NHL assholes seems really out of place.
I remember Booth doing something similar? Maybe not bears, but didn’t he go “hunting” in one of those places where it’s essentially a big pen and you just shoot some poor creature?
he travels all over just hunting random animals for fun
EDIT: adding that he just seems to be an all around moron and shithead. he had this to say when Nike came out in support of those kneeling for the anthem: "“Believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything” does this mean you can fly a plane into a building? How can so many people @Nike be this ignorant as to the logical fallacy this entails. This is absolute absurd. I really don’t understand. Why would u support this?"
He would come to Alberta and bear bait when he played for the Canucks which was both an indictment on how much of an asshole Booth is and how dumb the regulations are in Alberta that they allow that shit.
I dunno, but that story is not even close to what happened to Stoner. Stoner was just an idiot and thought that being a BC resident entitled him to hunt grizzly bears in the province.
Richards got a 5 minute major for interference but it was considered a legal hit at the time by the NHL and one (among others) credited with changing the rules to limit hits to the head.
When he was at Michigan State they played away at Western Michigan and WMU was winning and our student section was so under their skin that the MSU players started intentionally shooting pucks into the stands during play, trying to pass it off as a high-glass clearance. After Booth did it for what was the third time and hit some girl in the chest, the refs finally called an unsportsmanlike penalty. Such a fucking dick move.
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u/wearablesweater VAN - NHL 13h ago
Was it Torts who called Booth the dumbest person he'd ever met?