Just like last year, Mexico disgraces herself by booing America and cheering Osama.
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico topped the United States 2-1 and the CONCACAF World Cup qualifying group on Sunday, and upheld its 71-year unbeaten record at home against the Americans. ...The crowd booed the U.S. national anthem and a spattering of fans chanted "Osama! Osama!" before play started, and shortly after Lewis' goal.
Let's see video of those chants playing on the mainstream media news shows... I think the Minutemen might get more volunteers. I have zero sympathy for poor and desperate people who want to come here yet lack the civility to side with us against terrorist scum like "Osama". Plenty of Mexicans were killed on 9/11.
How many Mexicans are buried beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center may never be determined.A dozen kitchen helpers who worked in the 107th floor "Windows on the World" restaurant are missing, and as many as 500 are thought to have toiled in and around the twin skyscrapers that were dismembered by a kamikaze attack on Black Tuesday, Sept. 11.
The Mexican consulate has no census of its countrymen and women who worked at the toppled towers, but given the swelling Mexican population in New York City, the numbers are sure to devastate feeder communities back home.
The behavior of these soccer fans is sick and disturbing.
That's super awful. If I lived in AZ/TX/NM area, I'd be a volunteer after reading this post!
This is crude and indefensible, but you can't conclude that they really support Osama. Back in the 80's there was a basketball player at Arizona named Steve Kerr. Steve's father was killed (in Lebanon, I believe) by the PLO. When Arizona played at ASU the ASU crowd used to chant "PLO, PLO".
I don't think the ASU really intended to support the PLO, they were just a bunch of crude jerks.
In any stadium of tens of thousands of fans, you are going to have thousands of jerks. Don't make too much of it.
The linked story led me to believe that, while still reprehensible, the Osama chants died down compared to last year. "Mexican soccer fans, less disgraceful than last year" sounds about right and a bit more accurate.
DR: So you're arguing that it's not disgraceful? I agree that these fans weren't really "supporting" Osama Bin Laden, but anyone who thinks a sporting even is an excuse for this kind of "teasing" is still scum in my opinion.
TML: Maybe you're right, but that doesn't make as provocative a headline :)