Here we go again: Seau in hot water

[Maple Leafs]

Is this even a story?
Dolphins linebacker Junior Seau insists he meant no harm when he suggested the way to stop former teammate LaDainian Tomlinson is to feed him fried chicken and watermelon.

Tomlinson, whose Chargers face the Dolphins on Monday night, could not immediately be reached for comment. The Dolphins had no immediate word on whether Seau would be disciplined for the remark.

Asked Wednesday how to limit Tomlinson, San Diego's running back, Seau told reporters: "You give him watermelon and load him up with fried chicken and tell him to keep eating.''

Seau, who is of Samoan descent, later said he and Tomlinson, who is black, are friends and the comment was meant in jest. Seau was wearing a Tomlinson jersey when he made the comment.

"We ate that all the time. We'd have fried chicken every Friday,'' Seau said. "I'm sorry you guys took it that way. I should have realized it was an oversight on my part. I'm sorry it came out that way.''
In what's being called a pre-emptive move, Seau has been fired by ESPN.

[KevinNU7]

If he was white he'd be suspended.

If he was black it would get little press and not much would happen.

Since he's Samoan I'm not sure what PC Ameria will do to him

[Pyser]

Originally posted by Maple Leafs
In what's being called a pre-emptive move, Seau has been fired by ESPN.


hahaha. well played.

[Draft Dodger]

so,

to recap.

Seau jokingly suggests that they overfeed LT to slow him down, mentioning two foods that LT likes to eat. Since those two foods are two foods that are associated with African-Americans, and *gasp* LT is an African-American, Seau is obviously a racist.

I see.

[Ksyrup]

The difference between this and Fuzzy seems to be that Seau has a relationship with LT. Fuzzy's comments about Tiger were obviously geered to Tiger being black, not because Tiger ate those foods. Here, Seau has a plausible excuse. I can see how he would say something like this without realizing how it looks out of the context of his friendship with LT.

[Franklinnoble]

If LT was a white boy from Georgia, and Seau suggested you feed him chicken fried steak and grits, this would be a non-issue.

[MikeVic]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
so,

to recap.

Seau jokingly suggests that they overfeed LT to slow him down, mentioning two foods that LT likes to eat. Since those two foods are two foods that are associated with African-Americans, and *gasp* LT is an African-American, Seau is obviously a racist.

I see.


Yeah, that's how I see it too. So what if it's true that they ate watermelon and fried chicken? Don't imply that he's being racist.

[Maple Leafs]

I'm assuming that very soon, LT2 will explain that he took it as a joke, wasn't offended, and doesn't see why it's an issue. Then it will go away.

Part of me, though, would like to see him make a big production out of how hurt he was, insist that Seau be suspended for a game, then run for 200 yards against the Dolphins on Sunday, laughing hysterically the whole time.

[kparker15]

It does not matter. Howard Cossell was fired for saying "look at that little monkey run" in reference to an African American player when, just three weeks earlier, he said the exact same thing about a white player. Reality is, if Seau is white this is a huge story even if LT was his friend. ESPN would have this as the lead story.

[Abe Sargent]

I like watermelon and fried chicken a whole bunch and everybody where I come from eats that food all the time at potluck dinners and the like. And we only had like one black family on my side of the county.

Hell, I'd never even heard of the association with blacks and chicken until about a year ago, and that was only after living in Michigan, supervising a complex of 740 residents a majority of whom are black for a year.

So what does that say?

-Anxiety

[Maple Leafs]

Originally posted by kparker15
It does not matter. Howard Cossell was fired for saying "look at that little monkey run" in reference to an African American player when, just three weeks earlier, he said the exact same thing about a white player. There was an outcry, but Cosell wasn't fired. He did leave MNF several months later, and the monkey remark may have contributed to that.

[Daimyo]

Originally posted by Anxiety
....supervising a complex of 740 residents a majority of whom are black for a year.

So what does that say?
I don't know what it says, but what race did they become after a year of being black? :)

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Daimyo
I don't know what it says, but what race did they become after a year of being black? :)

Ah yes, poor positioning of phrases. Only after a year of supervising a complex that's a majority black. Better?

-Anxiety

[Ksyrup]

Originally posted by Anxiety
Ah yes, poor positioning of phrases. Only after a year of supervising a complex that's a majority black. Better?

-Anxiety

OK, so the complex was black, but what color were the residents? :p

[Draft Dodger]

Kysrup 2
Anxiety 0

[Ksyrup]

Actually, the first one was pointed out by Daimyo.

[Draft Dodger]

Draft Dodger -1

[Daimyo]

Originally posted by Ksyrup
OK, so the complex was black, but what color were the residents? :p
For that one year most of them were black. We've already settled that much at least. :)

[GrantDawg]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
If LT was a white boy from Georgia, and Seau suggested you feed him chicken fried steak and grits, this would be a non-issue.

I'm a white boy from Georgia, and fried chicken and watermelon would slow me down, too. :)

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by Draft Dodger
Draft Dodger -1


Nah hah. ;)

-Anxiety

[Abe Sargent]

Originally posted by GrantDawg
I'm a white boy from Georgia, and fried chicken and watermelon would slow me down, too. :)


Well, yeah, if you are pregnant with them. After all, I equate white Georgia boy with being somebody's bitch. Maybe that's just me.



-Anxiety


P.S. - The above was meant as humor. Please do not take offense as it was disigned to elicit nothing more than a laugh or a smirk, not anger or throwing scissors at your Lord of the Rings calendar. Please don't tell ESPN because I don't want to be fired....

[Draft Dodger]

<i>"I wasn't offended at all," Tomlinson said in response to Seau's comments. "You just have to know Junior."

Tomlinson acknowledged that he and Seau, while teammates the last two years with the Chargers, traditionally had fried chicken on Fridays.</i>

obviously covering up for that racist SOB Seau.

[ISiddiqui]

Please don't tell ESPN because I don't want to be fired....

How much money ya got? :D

[Pumpy Tudors]

Originally posted by Franklinnoble
If LT was a white boy from Georgia, and Seau suggested you feed him chicken fried steak and grits, this would be a non-issue.

This type of argument never fails to crack me up.