Thread: Bruins' Tim Thomas skips White House/Obama event honoring the 2011 Stanley Cup Champs

Originally Posted by go

Cynical much?

No, as a matter of fact I'm not cynical at all. I just don't like people judging others that they don't even know.

props to tim.

Originally Posted by sva50233

honestly (and i used to be a bullet sponge before changing mos'), i wouldn't take a bullet for anyone other than one of my battles. i think the son in question would feel the same. i sure as heck wouldn't take one for community organizer barack hussein obama

Birther?





Ahhhh....this one is probably better off getting locked.

Originally Posted by Chartrand

Birther?





Ahhhh....this one is probably better off getting locked.

Stereotypes are cute.

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Originally Posted by salami

Stereotypes are cute.

Ahhhh....this one is probably better off getting locked.

Originally Posted by Chartrand

Birther?

Amongst other fine traits I am sure!

Originally Posted by sva50233

honestly (and i used to be a bullet sponge before changing mos'), i wouldn't take a bullet for anyone other than one of my battles. i think the son in question would feel the same. i sure as heck wouldn't take one for community organizer barack hussein obama

Originally Posted by sva50233

tim thomas has nothing to lose. he's an older guy. he's won his cup. he has nothing to prove. why not?

to all the naysayers who have a problem with this based on a 'not a team player': team player playing WHAT GAME? going to the white house is not a team function. the only team functions other than games and practise, are mandatory team and nhl events. you have to go to the tip a king as a king, and you have to do other functions, but you don't have to go to the white house. he had a choice as to whether or not to attend, and he chose to make a political statement with that choice. 3 cheers for tim for having the balls to say 'f-u' to the system he disagrees with. i would never show up at an event with a political figure in front of me, using me as a prop to advance their political agenda.

After reading these posts consecutively, it's apparent that you support what Thomas did because it reinforces a partisan agenda to which you obviously subscribe. It isn't about "the system" at all. It's about Thomas putting his petty personal issues ahead of his team.

He's perfectly within his right to do so. He's not the first, or last, athlete to decline a visit to the whitehouse. It's still a lame thing to do. It's a photo-op and is ceremony that has been done for generations. It's a little overboard anytime an athlete does this. It ranks up there with any celebrity using their platform to soapbox. Just a tacky move really.

Who cares? Honestly?

And was it not just a few short months ago when TT walked on water? People around here were just gushing how awesome he was and now he is a villain for not going to the White House? Bad form? Sure. Petty? Yeah. But like I said, Who cares?

I don't give a crap what the political views of hockey players are, it what they do on the ice.