John Steigerwald, who writes a column for Observer-Reporter.com, places the blame for the beating out side of Dodger Stadium on Opening Day on the victim, San Francisco Giants fan, Bryan Stow.
He basically says Stow (which he originally spelled Snow, before the site corrected) was asking for it by wearing a Giants Jersey in Dodger country?
What is this, an episode of Gangland?
In the article, found here, Steigerwald says:
"Maybe someone can ask Stow, if he ever comes out of his coma, why he thought it was a good idea to wear Giants' gear to a Dodgers' home opener when there was a history of out-of-control drunkenness and arrests at that event going back several years."
You can't wear a baseball jersey to a baseball game? Steigerwald says Stow should've known better, and is too old to be wearing a jersey anyway.
"Are the 42-year-olds who find it necessary to wear their replica jerseys to a road game, those kids who are now fathers who haven't grown up?
"Are there really 40-something men who think that wearing the jersey makes them part of the team?"
Steigerwald's just too cool to wear a jersey. He won't lower himself to dressing like a child.
He goes on to spew more nonsense about how dangerous it would be for a Steelers fan to wear a Steelers jersey to a Steelers-Browns game in Cleveland; which is just asinine, as Steelers fans are the best traveling fans in the NFL.
Every time you see a Steelers road game, you see countless Steelers fans in their Steelers jerseys, most of whom are waving Terrible Towels.
He finishes that senseless argument with this beauty:
"Why not just go to the Browns game in Cleveland dressed as a regular human being? When did it become necessary to wear a uniform to the game?"
What in the wide world of sports does a "regular human being" look like through the eyes of John Steigerwald?
Instead of telling the victim, who is currently in a medical-induced coma, to grow up, Steigerwald should spitting his venom at the real problem here: The two hooligans who viciously attacked Stow outside the stadium.
What John? Oh, those guys are OK since they had the correct colors on?
You would think Steigerwald would know better than to kick a man and his family when their down, but maybe his parents never taught him that when he was growing up.
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