I don't. I can't. What.
May. 8th, 2011 09:41 pmYou guys, look, I cannot even explain in words how much I hate Sean Avery, and have hated him, for years. He's been an embarrassment to hockey pretty much continuously since 2005. The high/lowlights are in the Wikipedia article. You may note he was a Red Wing until 2003, and that is the shortest section in his Wikipedia article because he never did anything awful while he was a Red Wing. In 2005, I still loved him for being a former Red Wing, and my first reaction to the string of accusations against him was more or less "Not our Sean Avery!" and then "Sean Avery what happened to you in LA?" and then "JESUS CHRIST NOT AVERY AGAIN" and downhill from there with everyone else.
To sum up, he's spent the last six years going above and beyond "on-ice instigator" to make a career of being a full-time asshole--in the press, during warmups, after games, whatever. When he was in Dallas his own team refused to reinstate him after a league-mandated suspension because even they couldn't stand him. The NHL had to make a special rule to stop him from being an unsportsmanlike ass on the ice. Just for him! I'm not even kidding, it's called the Sean Avery rule.
For years I have been wondering why any NHL team pays him money. I have often thought about him, "die in a fire" and then hastily amended it to "go away somewhere where I never have to hear you associated with the sport I love ever again, but don't die in a fire because that's awful." (No, seriously, the inside of my brain is like that. Only partly because of reading too many books about people dying in fires.) Just today in the car![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
iulia and I were discussing him and how obnoxious and awful he is and I floated the charitable hypothesis that maybe he has chronic traumatic encephalopathy and that's why he became a raging cockbite after leaving the Red Wings, because he seemed really nice and normal, back in the day. (Then we came back to the less-charitable hypothesis that neither Steve Yzerman nor Scotty Bowman would ever have stood for that bullshit coming out of their locker room--so, in conclusion, I think the problem with Sean Avery is possibly either that he has been hit on the head too many times or that he has not been beaten enough.)
To sum up: you guys, up until half an hour ago I really, really thought that there was nothing that would ever make me think Sean Avery was anything but an utter, miserable disgrace to the sport of hockey.
And then he went and did this.
I actually lost the ability to form sentences after watching it. Sean Avery. Of all people. What.
(If you don't understand why it's a big deal for a hockey player to make that PSA, here is the story of the only person directly involved with the NHL who is even publicly known to have a gay family member. The really depressing conclusion I came to, after I regained the ability to form sentences, is that Sean Avery, despised as he is, is quite possibly the only player in the entire league who could support gay rights and not particularly care about what the inevitable suspicion that he himself is gay is going to mean for his career or his personal safety.)
To sum up, he's spent the last six years going above and beyond "on-ice instigator" to make a career of being a full-time asshole--in the press, during warmups, after games, whatever. When he was in Dallas his own team refused to reinstate him after a league-mandated suspension because even they couldn't stand him. The NHL had to make a special rule to stop him from being an unsportsmanlike ass on the ice. Just for him! I'm not even kidding, it's called the Sean Avery rule.
For years I have been wondering why any NHL team pays him money. I have often thought about him, "die in a fire" and then hastily amended it to "go away somewhere where I never have to hear you associated with the sport I love ever again, but don't die in a fire because that's awful." (No, seriously, the inside of my brain is like that. Only partly because of reading too many books about people dying in fires.) Just today in the car
iulia and I were discussing him and how obnoxious and awful he is and I floated the charitable hypothesis that maybe he has chronic traumatic encephalopathy and that's why he became a raging cockbite after leaving the Red Wings, because he seemed really nice and normal, back in the day. (Then we came back to the less-charitable hypothesis that neither Steve Yzerman nor Scotty Bowman would ever have stood for that bullshit coming out of their locker room--so, in conclusion, I think the problem with Sean Avery is possibly either that he has been hit on the head too many times or that he has not been beaten enough.)To sum up: you guys, up until half an hour ago I really, really thought that there was nothing that would ever make me think Sean Avery was anything but an utter, miserable disgrace to the sport of hockey.
And then he went and did this.
I actually lost the ability to form sentences after watching it. Sean Avery. Of all people. What.
(If you don't understand why it's a big deal for a hockey player to make that PSA, here is the story of the only person directly involved with the NHL who is even publicly known to have a gay family member. The really depressing conclusion I came to, after I regained the ability to form sentences, is that Sean Avery, despised as he is, is quite possibly the only player in the entire league who could support gay rights and not particularly care about what the inevitable suspicion that he himself is gay is going to mean for his career or his personal safety.)