Stevie Johnson accused Of Disrespecting 9/11 With a TD Celebration, why that's the most stupid thing I've ever heard (VIDEO)
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| Stevie Johnson as he emulates, a terrorist in a plane flying towards the Twin Towers. |
After scoring a touchdown to put Buffalo ahead, wide receiver Stevie Johnson pulled off two celebrations that offended many people. Johnson's initial celebration, mimicked shooting himself in the leg, poking fun at Jet's wide receiver Plaxico Burress (who in fact did shoot himself in his own leg). In Johnson's second celebration, he spread his hands as if he were a jet and went crashing into the Turf. The latter seemed to bother Jets defensive lineman Sione Pouha profoundly.
"Us being from New York, we like to hold ourselves to some integrity, and that airplane thing, in my opinion, was kind of a dagger considering the circumstances of remembrance of what we just had on Sept. 11," Pouha told the New York Post. "It was just unprofessional. We all stand for pride around here, and that's a sacred moment for a lot of people and it's a very sobering moment."
WATCH THE CELEBRATIONS FOR YOURSELF..........
To that I immediately responded:
WHAT THE HELL IS THIS POUHA ON ABOUT!??
Why does everything have to have a deeper meaning superimposed on it in retrospect? If Stevie Johnson was indeed mocking the events of 9/11 then obviously that isn't ok, but we know quite definitively that he was not. We know that Johnson's actions had very little to do with 9/11. Stevie Johnson did not score a touch down and say to himself, "I need a celebration hmmm.....you know what? F@ck New York City and F$ck 9/11." How long will people keep connecting arbitrary things back to 9/11 and where do you draw the line? If you see a bird crash into a transparent sliding door does it evoke the pain and suffering of that fateful day? If you see a child on a beach building a sand castle with two tower-like figures, do you burst into tears? At what point can you call such a mindset unhealthy?
AND FURTHERMORE....
Who says New Yorkers occupy some privileged position when it comes to 9/11? Many people from many different places lost loved ones that day. It was a national tragedy, so I don't really understand the "Us being from NY" statement, as if to invalidate anyone else's experience of 9/11 that isn't from New York.
Get real people ~ and YES, I am defending Stevie Johnson 100% and I found his celebrations to be amusing and ultimately ironic when they arguably cost his team the game!
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