You know you’re up to no good when other members of your fanbase are telling you to cool it.
A trend came among the Seattle Seahawks fanbase, which started in November, when someone petitioned to have Joe Buck and Troy Aikman banned from calling Seahawks games on FOX. That petition gained over 19,000 signatures.
Along with the petition to get Buck and Aikman banned from calling games, a woman named Sarah wrote a letter on Facebook calling Cam Newton classless for throwing a 12 Flag to the ground after the Panthers beat the Seahawks.
On Monday, another fan created a petition to ban Newton from CenturyLink Field, with the following description:
Cam Newton is one of the most unprofessional, unsportsmanlike individual on the face of the planet. So I say for the 2016-2017 when the Panthers come to play in Seattle he should be banned from entering the stadium. This should teach him to put his arrogance in check!!
But there is always a hero, and that hero came in the form of Dean S. from Seattle, who posted his own petition. But this one proposed that Seahawks fans stop all of the nonsense:
Fellow Seahawks fans, the letters you write chastising Cam Newton for tearing down a 12 flag in his home stadium and petitions you start trying to ban him from The C-link are making all of us look like pathetic, whiny bitches. It only takes one or two of these stupid stunts to embarrass millions of 12s and make the rest of the country think we’re a bunch of crybaby sore losers. Yes, we (along with the vast majority of football fans around the country) all think Cam Newton is an arrogant, unsportsmanlike, obnoxious douche canoe, dating back to his ethically questionable and short-lived college career. But for f*ck’s sake, get a grip. Grow up, get over it, start acting like football fans and knock it the f*ck off. There are plenty of fans around the country who hate us and some of our players, too. It goes with the territory when you dominate the league. Let’s show them we’re the superior team and fanbase by our performance on the field and in the stands next year. And cool it with the cringeworthy letters and petitions (except this one). GO HAWKS!
All fanbases have their contingent of superfans, and fans who make no sense or just have outrageously hot takes. But Dean S. is that one guy who understands (for the most part), that a lot of other fans just don’t get it, and are making themselves look ridiculous.
Dean still manages to unreasonably grill Cam Newton, despite some of the other whiny petitions being about Newton. But at least Dean knows everybody looks stupid doing so.
