Need another reason to hate Chicago?  How about Alex Quigley?  Who?  This guy...

Our smug looking, former rock DJ from Chicago wrote an article entitled: "Red Wings Fans Hate America, One Tentacle At A Time".  Why?  In response to a piece that Rob Otto did on mLive about Chicago fans standing and cheering throughout the national anthem at every home game for the Blackhawks.

I already knew there wasn't going to be one word of intellegent writing just by the title of Mr. Quigley's article.  But I read (most of) it anyway.  Let's hit the low points...

Although at first blush, the article seemed to be pageview-bait; write something potentially inflammatory with a "WTF? NO WAI DOOD!" headline and you're suddenly rolling in pennies and nickels from Google.

And what exactly were you trying to do with your article?  Pot, please meet kettle.  Kettle, have you met pot?  Perhaps our boy Al was trying to be ironic...either way, he comes off as a jackass.

What do Red Wings fans do after the national anthem is sung? Well, if it's the playoffs:

Our founding fathers would be so proud of this eight-legged show of patriotism. I bet they were all ticked off at John Hancock for signing his name so big that they couldn't fit their "Octopus = Freedom" clause into the Declaration of Independence.

Insert sound of cartoon plane plummeting towards Earth and eventually crashing with a bang.  The ignorance here is down right comical.  I would suggest Mr. Quigley learn a thing or two about hockey traditions (wikipedia isn't exactly a well kept secret) before trying to write a piece about any hockey team, whether it be NHL or backyard boot hockey on the pond.  He claims to have hockey-experienced friends, you should try talking to them more than you have to get your point across.

And he finishes up with...

Who hates America now, Rob Otto? IF THAT'S EVEN YOUR REAL NAME!?!?!?!

I now await my Google pennies and nickels.

Go ahead and give him a few hits.  Click the link and give this guy what-for Hockeytown.  But before you do, there's one last thing I'd be remiss NOT to do.

Dunce status confirmed.  Sorry to cover up those wonderfully crafted spikes, Al.

Comments (6)

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written by Twig, March 10, 2010

cuz throwing something on the ice after the anthem is worse than cheering during it. right. what a dick.

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written by J.J. from Kansas, March 10, 2010

Thanks for the find, but I'm not giving this asshat a pageview.

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written by stonehands78, March 10, 2010

Alex Quigley - there's a joke in that name somewhere.

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written by Kan Dallish, March 10, 2010

Rob's article was solid factual and a good read. I was at the Chi-Det game on NBC where Datsyuk undressed Neimi with that Change-Up...

Same thing, 4 Chicago fans, 20's to 30's age were cheering and clapping the whole national anthem. Even other Chicago fans were like, dudes, shut up!

Those same guys almost fought a 70 year old veteran, spilled beer on a Season Ticket HOLDER old lady, and had to be escorted out "for their protection" by Olympia Entertainment personnel.

Sad that they won that game, cause it would have been nice to have a win to point out on top of their idiocy, keep up the great work man!

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written by calquake, March 10, 2010

I especially liked the not so subtle jab that watching the Wings play is like watching the Soviets play. Wait...what? Unless he's saying all the Swedes on the team are commies there is no comparison. We have Datsyuk and ??? who are Russian but that's all. If he meant style of play then, Hell Yes, that is quite a compliment. What an idiot.

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written by Drew (Head Writer), March 10, 2010

written by calquake, March 10, 2010

I especially liked the not so subtle jab that watching the Wings play is like watching the Soviets play. Wait...what?

Yeah, I didn't even touch that one because I think it's even more simplistic than calling the Swedes commies. Basically, he's saying we're like the Red Army team because we have red jerseys like they do. Wow that's deep...chump.

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