Last night, former Kings forward Wayne Simmonds, who was traded in the off-season by the Kings to the Flyers as part of the Mike Richards deal, was at the center of attention in London, Ontario, Canada in a disgusting way where the Flyers were taking on the Red Wings in a preseason game. At least twice during the game, a fan threw a banana in the direction of Simmonds while he was on the ice.
Simmonds, the professional that he is, handled the situation with dignity and class, and simply shrugged it off. The fan who supposedly threw the banana has not been found.
All I'm going to say is the whole thing makes me sick. It's disgusting and ignorant. There's no place anywhere in sports for racism in any way, shape or form. There's no place for it in society, period. It's sad and unfortunate that it happened to such a good kid in Simmonds. I always thought Canadian fans in particular were better than this to stoop to such stupidity.
I really hope it was an isolated incident and it doesn't happen again. Hockey is too good of a sport and too proud for something like this to paint a black eye on it.
It's 2011, people. Let's get with the program.
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