Most sports fans (and do note that I said
“most” and not “all”) can never be objective about their favorite sports teams
and at times this leads to extreme ignorance. This is something that is in full
display right now among most fans of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks
football program during the current Bobby Petrino scandal. Just hours after
University of Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long announced that Petrino was
being put on paid administrative leave a local television network poll here in
Arkansas showed that 76 percent of Arkansans were 100 percent behind Petrino.
Arkansas fans don’t care what their football coach is doing if he’s winning
ball games and Petrino has done a lot of winning since joining the team in
2008, after he cowardly quit on the Atlanta Falcons in the NFL.
I said on both my Facebook and Twitter
accounts on Thursday night that “I swear the head coach of the Razorbacks could
rape and kill babies and puppies and most Hogs fans would still be 100 percent
behind him” and I stand by that. That doesn’t put a good image on fans of the
Razorbacks or sports fans in general, but the sad thing is sports fans don’t
care. The win-loss column is all that matters to them. Fans around here don’t
even have enough sense to care about the fact that Petrino looked into cameras
at a press conference and lied right to their faces. If they don’t have enough
sense to be offended about their leader lying to them than I don’t believe
there is anything that can save them. Coach Petrino did two separate things
that should get him fired. He participated in an affair with an employee that
he recently hired and more importantly he lied about the affair to his boss,
his fans and the media. Bobby Petrino should be fired and if he isn’t athletic
director Jeff Long isn’t adequately doing his job and if you have a problem
with that open your damn eyes and stop being so hyper fanatic toward “your” team.
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