A Quality Replacement For The Jerry Richardson Statue
Don’t tell me this wouldn’t be a better statue.
The Panthers should 100% make a statue of Steve Smith. Just give him one of his angry man poses between the panthers and you got yourselves a monument everybody would love.
The Jerry Richardson statue is gone. The public claim the Panthers made is that they saw how plenty of monuments made of shitty, racist people are currently being torn down and vandalized by protestors, and they realized their own egotistical statue of a piece of shit disgraced billionaire was ripe for some justice so they removed it “for safety”. Good. I doubt the statue goes back up. When David Tepper bought the team keeping the statue was part of the deal he had to make. He didn’t want the statue, he just had to live with it as part of the deal. I even made a comic about it.
This was probably the best excuse he could get to actually just take it down without penalty. Blaming the protesters potential for vandalism would be a great way to sneak his real agenda through the only people who might object. There was even a story on ESPN that Richardson has basically moved on. Two years down the road Jerry’s stubborn attempt to leave a gaudy monument to himself as a legacy just isn’t as important. Good. The statue was weird and creepy. The panthers had balls. I’d be okay if they kept the panthers though, they are kinda unique and badass. Also balls are funny.
But seriously make a statue of Steve Smith. Dude is a fucking legend and deserves to be immortalized.
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I would do a Smith and McCaffery kneeling and fist bumping. Old and the new
All due respect to McCaffery I mean the and a beast but he’s only entering his 4th? season. If rather McCaffery play a full career before we deem him ready to have a statue
Not yet. McCaffrey might become an asshole in the future. Don’t want to risk it. You never know who’s going to be an asshole in the future. For example, a popular streamer on Twitch who made collabs with famous people on youtube was just shown to be a racist and an underage child groomer.
“It’s my estimation that every man ever got a statue made of him was one kind of sumbitch or another.” -Captain Malcolm Reynolds (Joss Whedon).
Unlike Jayne Cobb, I don’t think Jerry Richardson ever managed to do something useful by accident.
He had a nice hat though
I’d rather just move the existing Sam Mills statue there.
I have no idea why you and so many other people have a soft spot for Steve Smith, Dave. The man has proven time and time again that he’s an asshole. The type of asshole that fights teammates and breaks their bones, in fact.
>Hey, while you’re here, sign this petition to tell the KKK to go fuck itself! It will take you 15 seconds.
This is stupid as shit even for an online petition, which as you yourself have acknowledged are basically worthless. How exactly do they intend to make the KKK “illegal?” And do you remember how the president was threatening to declare “ANTIFA” a terrorist organization just last week? If there is a way to do this that is both constitutional and guaranteed not to boomerang against left-wing groups fighting for social justice, I would love to hear it. Frankly, though, even if it were possible, it would probably a waste of effort against the KKK. They once had a terrifying amount of power in this country, but they’ve fallen so far that they’ve been a national laughingstock since the eighties. Why not focus on the white supremacist organizations that are actually relevant today?
Holy shit, yes, please. I LOVED when he said “Ice up son, ice up”.
You need to do a comic about how bizarre it is that NASCAR is doing better at handling this moment than the NFL is.
I mean, why are you celebrating the fact that they even NEEDED to ban the Confederate flag from being displayed in their events?
You mean you want a statue of the guy who twice broke the bones of his own teammates in fights at practice? Yeah, glorifying that guy doesn’t seem like a huge improvement. I know he was great on the field, especially for his size, but I don’t want to gloss over him doing things like that which hurt his team, and probably should’ve gotten him charged with assault (the “Jumped a guy while the lights were out during a film session” one especially)
I agree, glad they’re taking the statue of Jerreh down, but Steve Smith going up in his place would be a horrible choice. That’s a mild step above Ndamakong Suh and Hines Ward on the “jerk nfl player” chart. There has to be a much better choice to put on a statue, some unsung hero involved with the team who is far more deserving of the honor.
Cam? Luke Kueckly (or however that’s spelled)? Greg Olsen when he retires?
Whatyou didn’t know is that the Jerry statue also had giant balls under his pants.
Hate to be a contrarian but Steve Smith is a violent asshole, the antithesis of what we should be holding up as statue worthy right now. His self control is so legendarily limited he can’t even fight the right team, putting his teammates in the hospital. We were lucky he decided to go into sports rather than policing.
I’d rather 50 statues to Smith over 1 to Richardson, but honestly fuck them both. Put Newton in-between the panthers, wearing that bonnet and sunglasses. That would be funny at least.
I’m surprised that Tepper didn’t put bull testicles there.
A Steve Smith Sr. statue would be cool. Leave room for Steve Smith Jr. on the platform just in case.
For years, all I knew about Jerry Richardson was that he put the NFL shield at midfield out of reverence for the league. I always thought “oh, that’s kind of nice, what a respectful gesture.” Then years later I heard about all the other stuff. Yikes. That’ll teach me to form casual positive judgments about strangers.
Unrelated, but do any of these changes happen before 2040:
Washington Redskins –> Washington Hogs (or whatever)
Kansas City Chiefs –> Kansas City Kermits (or whatev)
Columbus Blue Jackets –> Ohio Blue Jackets
Cleveland Indians –> Cleveland Rocks (or whatev)
In my completely unqualified opinion:
Won’t but should (Dan Snyder) That name is great btw
I’m a chiefs fan so obviously biased but dont see it happening, name is vague and isn’t inherently derogatory in the same vein as redskins or indians and a lot of their identity has kinda shifted away from it (mascot is a wolf, no more spear throwing thing). Once again though I’m biased. could honestly see the name being kept and just moving futhur away from native american imagery
As long as the city is named columbus i doubt they change. If the city name changes then most likely yes.
I think so, seems like a likely candidate. I’m honestly surprised how long they kept the logo though so I’m not sure
Once again just my thoughts
Sam Mills should be in the center of that statue.
I dont want this only because I want his statue to be of him throwing Aquib Talib to the ground after scoring on him
How about the Kansas City Strips?
The helmet logo would be a piece of raw steak shaped roughly like the old arrowhead, with the ‘KC’ branded into it.
Google “raw meat hoodie” and you’ll get an idea of the jersey motif. Keeps the teem colors!
This was supposed to be a reply to Guy from Berrien Co two posts up….
That’s a good idea! Could definitely work… first thing I thought of when you mentioned meat was the indoor football league team that’s actually called Omaha Beef.
Nah I’m not really in favor of making ideas illegal. Let ’em rot in jail when they commit acts of violence, but making it illegal to form a group or have ideas is pretty bad. It’s nice to think that things like that would only be used to suppress bad ideas, but who gets to decide?
Oh good. Yet more entertainment replaced with shrill, nagging, social justice complaining. Just what everybody wanted.
waaaaaaaah my safe space waaaaaaaah
oh hey look another nazi snowflake terrified to use an actual moniker beyond a sock puppet “anonymous” spouting shit literally no one worth two fucks cares about
I want Luke Kuechly and Thomas Davis next to each other in their stances and flanked by the panthers.