20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

[mikemac2001]

http://deadspin.com/5845099/20-things-angry-buffalo-fans-wrote-to-a-female-sports-columnist-who-criticized-the-bills

Last week, Jennifer Gish—a sportswriter who is a woman—wrote a column for the Albany Times Union that questioned "whether the Bills faithful had a right to demand respect after a 2-0 start." After it was published, some Bills fans wrote to Gish. Here is what they told her (I've taken out the newspaper's demure asterisks and restored the naughty words):

1. "I wish I could lick those smug tears off your face."

2. "...you are some worthless female who does not know anything about sports."

[EricStratton]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

None are very creative

[mikemac2001]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

None are very creative

i was posting it because i remember the thread and people were like i am going to write....who cares...just stumbled upon it

deadspin.com is a funny site for sports clips if anyone hasn't been there

[B-DON]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

So which one is from Hurkey? Lol I'm guessing 14

[paranoid]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

Some embarrassing, troglodyte stuff there. She obviously selected the most offensive ones to make herself look like a martryr.

Her original article was a mean-spirited little piece of nastiness. She then took the most ignorant and misogynist of the replies and then sought to make herself into a victim by presenting them the next week.

Garbage journalism. And, some embarrassing stupidity demonstrated by dumb-ass Bills fans who fell right into her trap.

[trapezeus]

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the irritating thing about this is that she wrote a really mean spirited piece on buffalo fans. and she took her low blows at the fans. now i'm not saying what some of the worst people said are right, but she had to know that she was going to get trash talked when she started it.

then she writes a follow up piece to be like, look at the mean things said to me and they say girls can't be into sports.

I don't think what was said was right, especially the ones that knock her looks and are serious, but the ones that are tongue in cheek are just givign it back to her like she gave it out.

IF these were the responses she got for a normal piece, i'd say, "wow people are ****ed up." but she started the fire and then is acting like the victim. Very annoying.

[RoscoeMagic]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

Some embarrassing, troglodyte stuff there. She obviously selected the most offensive ones to make herself look like a martryr.

Her original article was a mean-spirited little piece of nastiness. She then took the most ignorant and misogynist of the replies and then sought to make herself into a victim by presenting them the next week.

Garbage journalism. And, some embarrassing stupidity demonstrated by dumb-ass Bills fans who fell right into her trap.

Of course that's what she did. And that's why she deserves every one of them. Sports is a male dominant culture, I don't know what else she expects. That's like a man working for The View and not expecting women to rag on him all the time.

[Thurmal]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

Her original column was unnecessarily mean-spirited and was completely unprovoked. She went out of her way to bring up sensitive subjects to Bills fans (jokes about the city's culture, the team moving, the city "practically being part of Canada", the Super Bowl losses, Wide Right, etc.). She was looking to touch a nerve and she did. On top of all that, she took a harmless quote from a 82-year old woman and made her look like a fool.

Were those insults in good taste? No way. Did she have it coming? You better believe it. And she would've gotten the same thing had she done a hatchet job like that on any other city.

I don't feel sorry for her one bit. You want to talk ****, expect to get some **** flung back.

[ServoBillieves]

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I'm not gonna sugar coat it, what a *****. She deserved every response no matter how rude. She used her freedom of speech, fans used theirs. Whoever posted the martyr comment was right, she turned it in to her defense. We beat the Pats and are 3-0, and that means very little in the grand scheme but a lot this week to Bills fans, so why **** on our parade?

She can kiss my ass, I'm getting sooooo sick of journalism, and people wonder why no one buys the paper anymore...

[Extremebillsfan247]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

the irritating thing about this is that she wrote a really mean spirited piece on buffalo fans. and she took her low blows at the fans. now i'm not saying what some of the worst people said are right, but she had to know that she was going to get trash talked when she started it.

then she writes a follow up piece to be like, look at the mean things said to me and they say girls can't be into sports.

I don't think what was said was right, especially the ones that knock her looks and are serious, but the ones that are tongue in cheek are just givign it back to her like she gave it out.

IF these were the responses she got for a normal piece, i'd say, "wow people are ****ed up." but she started the fire and then is acting like the victim. Very annoying.

There's nothing wrong with criticizing a writers blog, story, opinion, etc. They have to know if your going to publicize something, it will be criticized. However, regardless of what she wrote, it's ignorant to attack her personally for having an opinion. JMO

[mr_kotter]

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None are very creative

"I wish I could lick those smug tears off your face." is hilarious

[MikeNC]

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Pasted from the Washington Post:


After having read the initial article I can see why she's gotten such a strong response. I'm a Dolphins fan and no fan of the Bills by any stretch. The vulgar emails were uncalled for; however she did not post any of the more sensible emails she received of which I am sure there were many. We have "journalists" like this down here in Florida too; anything to get a rise out of people. What she did was attack the fans of a team. If she were writing something like this for Giants there is no she gets away with attacking the people of New York for believing in the Giants. NO WAY.

She took a cheap shot at a group of people for believing in a team that represents the area of our country they live in. What she did and seems to not acknowledge, was to mock the very nature of being a fan.

[TMu11]

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12. "Maybe you should stay in the kitchen next time."

^ My favorite. The rest were far too mean spirited and personal. It's a shame these Bills "fans" had to resort to such a level, when we've always been known for winning (losing) with class.

[Jan Reimers]

Re: 20 Things Angry Buffalo Fans Wrote To A Female Sports Columnist Who Criticized The Bi

Her original column was unnecessarily mean-spirited and was completely unprovoked. She went out of her way to bring up sensitive subjects to Bills fans (jokes about the city's culture, the team moving, the city "practically being part of Canada", the Super Bowl losses, Wide Right, etc.). She was looking to touch a nerve and she did. On top of all that, she took a harmless quote from a 82-year old woman and made her look like a fool.

Living in Albany - a city that has nothing going for it except the mighty New York State government - has obviously made her envious and hateful of people who live in a vibrant city like Buffalo, with major sports teams and tons of things going on.

[clumping platelets]

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I also like how Channel 2 made her out to be a victim /sarcasm