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Originally Posted by Ped
I certainly hope so. But this isn't particular to Flames fans - this is people. Not all, but many people will defend their "team" - whether it be sports or politics or their friends - and refuse to believe they could possibly be guilty of anything.
Would things be different right now if Dube was say, an Islander? I suspect so, not because Flames fans are not more or less reprehensible than anyone else, but because this is how we are. In all aspects of life, not just sports.
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There are multiple players on other teams, whose statements and lack of “personal leave” are being cited as reasons their inclusion in this is unlikely.
I think the people refusing to believe Dube
could be guilty are few and far between. And that’s a lot different than discussing that he
could not be, based on the limited information we have.
Five guys were called to turn themselves in. Five guys took leave. Pretty easy to just say the five and five are a match. But if the conclusion were so obvious that any suggestion otherwise is an attempt to absolve someone because of sports fandom, why aren’t even you willing to just say it’s those five guys as a matter of fact?