Are Sports Fans Too Obsessed With Memorabilia?
SodaHead Sports
2012/06/04 19:00:00
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A young boy was at a charity softball game held by Green Bay Packers wide receiver Donald Driver over the weekend. While a dirty, stinky, smelly cleat is nothing to go nuts about, it's a cool little souvenir for the young boy Driver aimed at, when he raised it in the air after the game. Maybe the boy would've washed it and kept it somewhere for the memory of being at the game and meeting one of his heroes.
Instead, his memory was ruined when an ADULT WOMAN literally -- and we mean literally -- ripped the cleat Driver threw out of the poor kid's hands. We're not sure what happened next, but the animation of the events implies the parents must have shouted a few expletives at the loser that let her fandom ruin a young boy's day. If this was the Super Bowl football or Babe Ruth's baseball, maybe there's the slightest case that could be made for her behavior. But a cleat?!
Luckily for the boy, Driver has tweeted that he's going to find the boy and give him a positive memory -- one that was robbed to him by a rude person who must have a cleat fetish or something. Are sports fans too obsessed with memorabilia? It depends who you ask. The loyal fans who collect sports trading cards, owned signed balls, signed bats, etc., could make the case that their fandom -- and collection -- is worth something.
Instead, his memory was ruined when an ADULT WOMAN literally -- and we mean literally -- ripped the cleat Driver threw out of the poor kid's hands. We're not sure what happened next, but the animation of the events implies the parents must have shouted a few expletives at the loser that let her fandom ruin a young boy's day. If this was the Super Bowl football or Babe Ruth's baseball, maybe there's the slightest case that could be made for her behavior. But a cleat?!
Luckily for the boy, Driver has tweeted that he's going to find the boy and give him a positive memory -- one that was robbed to him by a rude person who must have a cleat fetish or something. Are sports fans too obsessed with memorabilia? It depends who you ask. The loyal fans who collect sports trading cards, owned signed balls, signed bats, etc., could make the case that their fandom -- and collection -- is worth something.
Top Opinion
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Somkey the Hores 2012/06/05 06:51:26Yes
+6Conditioned by advertising to waste their money. Screw teams who change their uniforms every season or who have 18 different uni combinations in order to soak the fans. (Well, the stupid ones, anyway...)
And this story just goes to show it.. the woman should be ashamed of herself and the police should have arrested her for stealing from the kid. He had it in his hands afterall. Book her Danno!
I don't think this is an issue of obsession with memorabilia. Remember, we're talking about another person, a kid getting and keeping the shoe as a trophy. So if obsession is the issue then both the adult and the kid are nuts.
The issue here is self obsession and manners. More and more people today are wrapped up in themselves and are losing the ability to behave in a civil fashion in public toward other people. The best outgrowth of this is driving. How many times are you trying to merge or change lanes on the road only to have some nutbar speedup to "keep their spot"? Thats the easiest place to see this behavior.
In no world should an adult compete for an item tossed into the stands toward a kid, let alone rip it out of his hands. But that piece of memorabilia in the hands of the kids makes as you point out a positive memory and a fan of the player or team of the kid. So theres no problem with wanting memorabilia.
The Yankees, Steelers, Packers, Cowboys, Cardinals (STL) have it right.
I just watched video of the incident on another site. The boy clearly had full possession of the shoe. I'll refrain from using the coarse language that I'm thinking.
The kid's pretty awesome. He let it go when he realized she wasn't giving up and still had a smile on his face as he watched one of his sports heroes walk off the field. Kudos to him for not letting it get him down and being the more gracious person in general.