Heavy\u002Dhanded attempts at advancing social justice are bound to backfire
Many fans would prefer politics stay out of sports and vice versa. That’s understandable, especially in a fractured country like the United States. But fans don’t seem to have objected to the Pride jerseys much at all — even in relatively conservative U.S. markets.Pride-themed jerseys long before the NHL adopted the idea. Why should it send those Jerseys to Goodwill? Because Gary Bettman, the NHL’s ridiculous Canada-phobic commissioner, says so? Nuts to that.
Indeed, the most fundamentally outrageous thing about this whole story might have been the idea of the NHL speaking for hockey as a whole in in any capacity at all. This is a league where — to be generous — nearly half the teams play in markets where almost nobody plays the game recreationally.Article content
So, obviously, this story says a lot about the NHL. If the league and its teams had simply asked players what they thought in advance, it could have saved everyone a lot of grief. The league looks stupid; some of its teams look stupid; and players like Reimer, who is universally acknowledged to be one of the nicest people in the league, have had their good names dragged through the mud because of their beliefs.
But the basic error the league and the teams made — not asking if the most important people involved were OK with it — is not unlike what’s going on in the real world nowadays.
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