Booing was NOT the answer

OK, I’m a little late to the party of the 18-year old American player, who bashed the city of Buffalo. In short, I felt that it was much ado about nothing. Sorry, but if I’m 18-years old and I can’t legally drink, goto Canadian strip clubs, and the downtown area isn’t exactly booming on Monday night, then I’d probably feel the same way. Sure, he shouldn’t have said it, but you know how many people bad mouth other cities? People hate NYC, and you know what New Yorkers do when they hear this? Nothing, because they don’t care. They have heard it all, to know that they can feel just fine about their city, without someone else crapping on them about the costs, the rudeness, the people and so on. They are fine in their own skin.

And yet, the city of Buffalo has to act like they are the 18-year olds at the prom, who aren’t getting asked out to the dance floor.

As I’ve written before, I haven’t paid much attention to this tournament. Sure, if the championship game is Canada vs America, I’ll watch. Other wise, it’s a dull roar for me. Now, I’m writing this post, because it just came to my attention that the HSBC crowd booed this 18-year old kid, which I just googled…um, Emerson Etem, after he scored a goal Wednesday night. Um, Buffalonians…I don’t know if you know this, but he PLAYS FOR THE AMERICAN HOME TEAM!?! Seriously, you are getting off by booing some teenager? What a fricken joke.

Not only that, but you boo him after he scores a goal? Way to go, fellas. Now, I’m probably in the majority of the people in the states, who thinks this tournament doesn’t mean much. However, I’m sure this tourney means a ton to Etem, who was probably looking forward to scoring and then getting some cheers. I mean, this is suppose to be the biggest hockey junior tournament in the world, and I’m sure it means more to this teenager than it does to anyone in the city of Buffalo. Yet, we decided to take it away from him. Ridiculous. OK, maybe I’m overstating it with taking it away from him, but the age of the perpetrator should have been accounted for with the people of Buffalo.

Now, I know afterwards, he decided to play the diplomatic route, which was probably the correct one. Bottom line: By booing, we ended up looking like bigger fools than this kid.

I think it would have been better if we gave him a standing ovation when he scored. It would have been a great moment in which the hockey world would have said, “aww, ain’t that nice.” Instead, we let some kid who has 500 followers on twitter, get under our skin. Good job, kids.