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Originally Posted by iggyloob12
And with respect to her Oilers social media posts, so what? She was an anchor at TSN at the time, and not covering a team as a beat reporter. Is anyone upset when Jermain Franklin posts pro-Flames stuff now that he’s not on the Flames beat?
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Sure show me pictures of Jermaine in his Flames onesie. Nice false equivalency, she never covered the Oilers, if she did it could be construed as a similar situation to Jermaine posting about the Flames.
Derek Wills grew up an Oilers fan, but he's a professional so he never went on social media broadcasting his fandom because he realizes it isn’t professional and limits his employment options.
When it’s a job, you stop being a fan of a team, you cheer for the sport and the players, because… it’s the job you chose. Some people can remain fans and professionally park their fandom. Job #1 is avoiding social media.
When this doesn’t happen it makes professionals look like the clowning jokers in the Edmonton media.
Obviously the Flames are willing to overlook this, but going from TSN to hosting Flames TV is not a promotion.
I've never heard her speak and thought… “hmmm… that is a good question or interesting observation.”, I also doubt that I ever will.