I've come to think of it this way... there is Sidney Crosby THE PERSON and Sidney Crosby THE BRAND. Sidney the person I have no problem with... seems like a nice kid with the occasional lapse in judgement largely arbitrated his youth. But the BRAND I despise more than anything else in hockey because it is built on the premise that hockey fans are DUMB and that if you simply tell us that such-and-such player is an elite talent we will believe it despite stats, production, trophies and all evidence to the contrary.
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Date: 2010-03-01 03:23 am (UTC)