What happened to sportsmanship? You know, that thing your parents and little league coach told you about growing up. How you’re suppose to congratulate one another on a good game and take your loss and victories like grown men and women. How it’s ok to cheer for your favorite team but not wish harm on others to give your team the advantage. I mean seriously, we should know better, right?
The loyal fans of the Jim Rome show, which Rome calls his “clones,” started using the hashtag #bumsmack on Twitter. I don’t know where it came from, but these people thought it would be funny to make fun of people who are homeless and can’t provide for themselves. n no way is it funny, entertaining, or appropriate to make fun of people in these situations. What’s even worse is the fact that they actually got it to trend for a brief moment on Twitter.
Now hats off to Rome, who said that it was inappropriate as well and was very vocal about how ashamed he was of his listeners, but all it did was fuel these people to make more posts and come up with new ways of using that ridiculous hashtag. Just last week we were talking about how horrible Mexico fans were for chanting a gay slur in a soccer match, but it seems to be ok to make fun of homeless people. Or, maybe the people using this hashtag were ok with the gay slur as well.
It’s things like this that give U.S. sports fans and athletes a bad reputation. If we to claim to be number one in everything, then we need to start acting like we’re more appropriately. That means no more beating people up for rooting for a different team, and no more cheering for a player when he gets hurt just because he didn’t play as well as you would have hoped he would or plays for another team. Stop with the slurs toward fans and players and stop thinking it’s funny to make fun of people who can’t defend themselves.
Once we achieve this standard, we can truly call ourselves number one in the world, no matter if we win or lose...because it is all in how you play the game.
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