Letters to the Editor
Margalis
Published Letters: 610 Editor's Choice: 16
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Off the mark
[Read the article: The rise and fall of T.O.]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Thanks for the bland recap of common knowledge. A column on Madonna followed by a column on T.O. That's excitement! I look forward to next week's engaging piece about Nick and Jessica's breakup.
File these away in the "columns about subjects that have already gotten more press than they deserve" category.
If there was some insight here I missed it.
The stangest thing here is, it seems like Camille is making TO take the blame for poisoning race relations. For all the dumb things he has said and done, I don't remember him ever making race an issue. Sure he was a punk, but his crime was what? Being a black contrarian in contrast to McNabb? He didn't make it a racial issue.
People in Philly making racist remarks are racist. It has nothing to do with TO. And the NAACP guy is just dumb on about 10 different levels. McNaab is an Uncle Tom because he doesn't scramble enough? What a joke.
All that shows is that Philly has it's fair share of racists and idiots. Philly fans have the reputation (well deserved, I might add) of being incredibly fickle and mean-spirited. The Eagles are falling apart and sports fans are acting like asses - that's busines as usual.
If a lot of people in New York started calling Derek Jeter a race traitor that might be news. Fans in Philly jumping on anyone for any reason at the first sign of trouble? Entirely expected.
Philly fans are widely considered the worst fans in sports for a reason. To blame TO for that is to totally miss the point. If the head of the local NAACP is acting like an asshole sports fan it's probably because he is an asshole sports fan first and foremost, not because the devil made him do it. TO is the symptom, not the problem.