It’s funny how quickly people are to judge on a moment without knowing all the facts.

Remember the incident with Washington Redskins safety Sean Taylor and Tampa Bay Buc running back Michael Pittman? Video replays showed Pittman unloading a punch on Taylor, yet Taylor got kicked out and the whole Redskin bench stayed away from him.

The TV commentators went crazy.

They were saying how it was a travesty that Taylor was wrongly blamed. They were saying how Pittman should be ashamed of himself.

Patrick N Tidbit: Diego Maradona, considered one of the best players in soccer ever next to Pele, ended his career with the famous Hand of God, coke addiction, and suspended by the World Cup and still is considered great.

They went off about how classless Pittman was and that NOTHING Taylor said could justify Pittman punching Taylor. Then they show a replay where Taylor spit in the helmet of Pittman. Quickly, a commentator said that if someone spit in his helmet he’d punch that person as well. I guess an exception was found?

Let us go to Zinedine Zidane’s massive headbutt to the tits (massive in large help to some great acting from the victim who seemed fine after Zizou got a red card getting right back up and was well enough to kick in a pk - wrestling fans should recognize the fall Materazzi took as similar to taking a hard punch in wrestling). Media and the American commentators were saying that there was NOTHING that Materazzi could say that would justify the “vicious” headbutt. Media said that Zizou was classless and a baby. Well if Zizou is classless and a baby for his reaction, these people are classless and babies as well:

Abraham Lincoln

Get off my penny you baby.

You tall, deformed piece of shit. Using war to free the slaves? That’s a bit of an over reaction.

All the people from the L.A. riots

L.A. buildings are friends, not food.

Just because you finally caught police on tape beating the shit out of ANOTHER black person senselessly but still wasn’t enough to convict doesn’t mean you should riot.

Malcolm X

Violent reaction just because of racism? You big baby.

Israel after Munich

Why make a movie on an overreaction?

How the fuck can you bomb Palestinian training areas and set up an assassination attempt on all those responsible for the Munich Massacre? Just because they killed 11 of your athletes in the Olympics and their dead bodies were buried as heroes gives you no right to be butthurt. NOTHING that the terrorists do could justify a reaction.

America after 9/11

That’s just childish.

So they crash some fucking planes into our buildings. So what? Us hunting down Osama for that incident just makes Americans look classless and cry babies.

You see, Zizou was reacting to Materazzi saying some racist shit about him:

On Monday, even as Zidane met French president Jacques Chirac and just hours after the legendary footballer headbutted Materazzi in full view of an estimated two billion people who watched the fracas with shock and awe, some of Europe’s leading black and mixed-race footballers went on record with the damaging speculation that the Italian may have slapped the ethnic Algerian Frenchman with a racist insult uttered in Italian.

By Monday afternoon, the speculation appeared to have hardened into a gimlet-eyed certainty with football pundits reminding the world that Zidane understands the Italian language because of his long years with the Italian club Juventus. Ergo, Materazzi would have known his muttered racial slur on Zidane would hit home, the pundits said.

Though Zidane, affectionately known alternately as Zizou or Yaz (which is short for Yazid, his middle name) has always refused to talk about the politics of race relations, integration and France’s subtle apartheid, his last outburst on the world stage is thought to be directly linked to his origins as a poor, coloured north African Arab boy growing up on one of the toughest housing estates in Marseilles.

Source: India Times

Most that watched Zidane for a long time, or at least a few games, know that Zidane pretty much keeps to himself and is quiet. It was VERY uncharacteristic of Zidane to unload a headbutt like that. Imagine yourself in apartheid (racial segregation through legal racial classification) and then some bitch on the field says some racist shit to you in his own language but, OOPS, you fucking understand it. You know what? You call me a “gook,” “slant,” or “yellowback” on the field and I’ll give you more than a fucking headbutt to flop on. Zizou has had a great career that shouldn’t be based on this reaction. I mean, Jordan ended his career calling Kwame Brown a “faggot” and he doesn’t get shit for it.

By the way, Materazzi isn’t exactly considered a defenseless guy. He’s known as a thug and a cheat. Just like half the Italian team (SEE ITALIAN MATCH FIXING SCANDAL).

From what I hear, Zidane was called a terrorist. Considering his Arab heritage, and that in the Madrid terrorist bombings one victim was a kid wearing Zidane’s jersey and was buried with the jersey (Zidane was in attendance), calling Zidane a terrorist probably sparked more emotion than any of us can handle.

Besides this overreaction by the media, what is overlooked is how the refs got to the red card. No one saw Zidane unload the headbutt until after the replay was busted on the big screen for the whole stadium to see. The ref was accused of seeing it on the replay and then making the call to red card Zidane. For those of you that think, “LOLLERSKATER PATRICK. HE DID IT HE SHOULD PAY ANYWAY,” you’re stupid. You don’t change rules in the FINALS. Could you imagine if replay was illegal in the NFL and in the SUPERBOWL the used replay for ONE PLAY to make a call to eject someone like John Elway, Joe Montana, or my big cock?

Fifa claims that the fourth ref made the call and has no access to instant replay, only the fifth ref does. I guess the fourth ref didn’t see the headbutt like EVERYONE IN THE FUCKING STADIUM did.

Lucky for me, I can support Zidane more because the French are pissed and totally raping on Zidane.

Patrick N Tidbit: Trezeguet, the only Frenchman who missed the pk, plays on Juventus, the Italian team that’s the main part of the Italian rig scandal and has many players on the Italian National Team. Rig?

It’s not like Zidane carried the whole French team on his back into the finals. Oh by the way, the guy that missed the only pk ON HIS OWN was going to be part of the chosen pk takers anyway even if Zidane was still playing.

Hey guys, instead of talking about how someone is reacting to a racist comment, let’s talk about how their other good player, Thierry Henry, decided to leave the game (thus not allowing him to take pks) because he was too tired. Uhh, IT’S THE FUCKING WC FINAL. Italy was content on going to pks. How about you just chill on the side and rest instead of taking your pussy ass out of the game entirely?

Moral of this story:

I’m the Juggernaut, BITCH!

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