This raises an excellent point. and makes me ask a question for you all.
Say Scott Howson is fired in July 2011. The 2011-12 season still goes as badly under the new GM as it did under Howson and Nash still requests out in January.
Does the changing of the "Nash v. Howson" angle to Nash "not wanting to be part of the rebuild" change your opinions of him? Is their some real vitriol among Jackets fans or is it still the same "can't blame him for leaving" feeling?
My present conclusion is that "Nash versus Howson" is a ludicrous conspiracy theory invented by folks who were hurt by the trade request and decided to try and foist blame for it on someone they already hated.
So, no, that wouldn't change my opinion on the matter in the least.
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So true, couldn't count how many red OSU shirts I saw during the Red Wings game.
I find that incredibly offensive both as a CBJ and as a Buckeyes fan. I love the Buckeyes as much as anybody, but that's just massive cluelessness. There's gray Buckeye shirts too, guys; if you can't actually bother to bring yourselves to support the Jackets any further, you can at least ****ing wear THOSE when That Other Michigan Team is in town. ****ing disrespectful dumbasses.
(And yes, I get that, at least for the folks who aren't Wings fans, it's supposed to be a "no, red is OUR color" statement. Newsflash, morons: IT DOESN'T ****ING WORK THAT WAY.)
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That also completely ignores the general jackassery and know-nothing nature of huge numbers of OSU fans, who have this idea that anything that isn't scarlet and gray needs to be crushed as quickly as possible.
When I take over the world, such blatant idiotic insecurity will be punishable by death.
(Y'all think I get testy with fellow Jackets fans sometimes? Sometimes it can get annoying, but that's nothing compared to the wastes of skin that masquerade as "fellow" "Buckeye" "fans". Gahh. SO MUCH HATE)
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To add to this I also do not understand "wear a hockey jersey for a NHL team not playing guy". My wife and me play a game each game called "where's the moron in a Pittisburg jersey". We have yet to not find him.
I admit to doing something like this during my visits at Bridgestone Arena on each New Year's Weekend (technically, a CBJ t-shirt, not a jersey; no numbers or anything), but that's more out of a perverse desire to remind folks that the Blue Jackets do still in fact exist and have fans. To do that with a team that actually gets regular mainstream attention of types beyond "they suck and nobody likes them; relocate or contract 'em" strikes me as kind of gauche.