ESPN Showcases Bengals Tweets After Steelers Loss

[CJD]

(01-18-2016, 01:17 AM)Clep Wrote: Further adding fuel to the fire, ESPN, the NFL, and bleacher report all immediately posted a montage of all the Bengals who tweeted after the Steelers game.

https://www.facebook.com/ESPN/posts/1165445753502179

Nearly ALL of the comments on Twitter and Facebook are people BASHING not only the Bengals, but the city of Cincinnati. Words such as trash, thugs, disgrace, etc being used to describe the Bengals and Cincinnati AND the fans.

I'm 23 years old and I have been a fan as long as I can remember. I have never seen hatred for a team like I see for the Bengals right now. And the worst part about it, I think it's completely undeserved. I almost feel like Cincinnati is Stephen from Making a Murderer and Roger Goodell is the police department. It's unfair and just annoying how the media is trying to make Cincinnati out to be this awful place with dirty players.

Thoughts? Personally, I don't think the tweets are a big deal at all but of course people are gonna react and say they are classless and thugs for it.

Am I the only one who finds the word "thugs" to describe football players to be extremely racist?

They're not shooting up a Gas station or diner. They just hit the opponent's players (arguably) harder than they should.

There are no criminals on Cincinnati's team. The player being called a thug most often (Burfict) has never even been arrested, let alone do anything that would warrant the title of "thug."

It's amazing how ingrained into our culture racism is that people can feel comfortable calling a black person a thug just because you don't like the way they play a game.