Homophobic Cardinals fans embarrass St. Louis
Yael T. AbouhalkahEven the mayor of St. Louis has had to apologize today for some of the fans of the Cardinals baseball team.
The San Francisco Giants defeated St. Louis Monday night in the National League Championship Series.
And the seventh and final game wasn’t close: a 9-0 beatdown to snuff out the 2012 season for St. Louis.
In fact, St. Louis had led the NCLS by a 3-1 margin, before getting swept in the final three games and outscored by an eye-popping 20-1 margin.
The ending stunned all of the Cardinals fans who had thought they would be watching World Series games against the Detroit Tigers in late October.
But they weren’t speechless.
In a series of homophobic rants, some Cardinals fans took to Twitter to rail against the Giants and against San Francisco.
On Wednesday, that prompted Mayor Francis Slay to tweet a few minutes ago: ‘“Fans” tweeting homophobic comments after the NLCS do not reflect the sportsmanship of Cardinal Nation.”
True words, and good for the mayor and for all the true Cardinals fans today speaking out against the ugly rants.
Brian Berry
7 months, 3 weeks agoThe fans, who made those comments, are true fans. They have a great passion for their team. They was very pissed and drunk when, they made those comments.
Concidering that San Francisco is a center for homosexuality, the comments aren’t all that bad. Very rude and missinformed, though.
Those fans have spent millions of dollars in tickets, taxes, and other stuff. They are entitled to blow off some steam.
If sports fans need to be level headed, nobody would go to Royal and Chief games.