We all know what happened in Boston during the 117th edition of the prestigious Boston Marathon - and the subsequent wave of support, worldwide, for the victims of that cowardly act that left many Bostonians scarred for life, both emotionally as physically. Jeff Bauman was one of those people - one of those who lost limbs in the explosions that interrupted the marathon's finish and ended three lives as well. Mister Bauman lost, in fact, both lower limbs and yet he courageously faces the future with optimism. He even accepted the invitation of the Boston Bruins organization to wave the flag of the new movement that the tragedy gave birth to: ''Boston Strong'' - strong in the face of cowardly terrorist attacks, strong in the advent of more threats mushrooming at every corner, the fruit of pernicious minds that should have never been born. Boston Strong - when faced with evil.
Honestly now, if it was you or I, would either one be willing and pre-disposed to go wave a flag at some massively public event, showing your newly-cut off legs, your new wheelchair to which you will be bound for the rest of your days, show up and subject yourself to all the inquisitive eyes of the world - some of which belong to morons who simply do not even get it...?!? Honestly now - you and I would have declined this invitation - just like many other Boston Bombing victims surely did. Our collective hat has to be tipped and has to be off for Mister Jeff Bauman - a true survivor.
There is but one easy step to make in order to deter from the original, meaningful and true definition of the Boston Strong campaign though - and to slap it onto mere sports contests. Of course. It was even cute, at first, when a message board user who, coincidentally or not, named himself ''Jon Strong'', lauded all three major Boston teams at once, earlier in May in this manner: commending the Celtics for staving off elimination twice against a purported-to-be mightier Knickerbockers team; lauding the Red Sox for a terrific start to their 2013 season, as they led the major leagues right out of the gate; and applauding the Bruins for taking game one of their first round playoffs match-up with Toronto extremely convincingly by the score of 4 to 1 - which is the way the entire series should have gone, too. Cute, yes. Alas, to do that opens the gates for all the morons to walk in and wreak havoc with everything: especially common sense and plain old civility.
For there are troglodytes such as this one from Toronto, who, first off, was obtuse enough to sincerely believe that the mere youthful enthusiasm of his team (all of which had made it to the playoffs for the very first time in their lives) was going to propel them past a former championship team that still retains all the elements required to reclaim said championship. And that is without taking into account the experience factor, the trademark resilience of the Boston Bruins, the superior talent and skills of the set of players playing in Boston right now (not in 2011, when they won it all - right now) compared to the bunch of still-wet-behind-the-ears neophytes in T.O. today... (Which are, in truth, the same kind of neophytes they've had for over a decade - a decade spent without ever qualifying for the spring ''tournament'' as Europeans call it, always... But that is another aspect we need not address at this time, really.) Graver of all, the Toronto fan made the crucial mistake of never assimilating the true meaning of BOSTON STRONG - and he then cooked up for himself a sign (a professionally-made sign, in the looks anyway; how deceptive looks can be sometimes...) that read... Toronto Stronger. Stronger? When there were shootings downtown T.O. did your citizens suffer half as much trauma as Bostonians did, in April of this year? When is the last time T.O. was hit by something nearly as trying as the Boston Bombing...? To wish upon T.O. a ''ground zero type of experience'' because of that one turd would be way too extreme - but that is the only way they could possibly prove to be ''stronger'' in any way - if they can, at all. Alas, all that doesn't register with the troglodyte below, wearing shades to mask his shame, we hope: all he could comprehend would be, perhaps, that his slogan makes no sense at all even in the world of sports as neither the Raptors nor the Leafs have had anything to show for themselves that comes even close to match the successes of the Boston teams that they respectively compete against. And the Argonauts are not even in the same league -in all possible meanings of the expression- than the New England Patriots. Also, at blogging time, the New England Revolution is still better than the Toronto F.C. in Major League Soccer; which is, in truth, the real football -European football- but that is another topic once more; one we need not address here and now...
Truly, the Toronto Troglodyte has no base whatsoever on which he could possibly stand and build the foundation of his idiotic statement. And when one knows the true meaning of the STRONG component at the root of it all, he comes off only as an obnoxious, repulsive, utterly clueless turd totally devoid of class. Sincerely, I doubt that he even had a clue how clueless he was about everything involved here...
To match up this pathetic troll -one who somehow came out of hiding; 'tis foolishness, I tell you, not courage- therefore, with the amazing example of courage that Mister Jeff Bauman is, is actually in very poor taste as well, indeed. However, since it has made the rounds in social media and needs to be done, in order for any other troglodytes to, possibly (hopefully) get it - and Lord Knows there are tons of those in various towns too: New York, Montreal, even Boston itself, alas - here we go:
Photos Credits: Getty Images most probably
- and the idiot's idiotic pal.
To think that some idiot recuperated that
badder-than-just-bad idea
and made it his monicker on NHL.COM
- whilst he's an avowed Winnipeg fan
(of all conceivable things to be)
he chose this heinous way to bash Boston,
as it eliminated yet another Canadian team,
but, most appallingly of all,
NHL.COM just let him do it
under that very username...?
Boycott NHL.COM - I say!
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