Sometimes, people take sports far too seriously. Take, for instance, this fan of the Golden State Warriors, who very much does not appreciate that TNT’s Charles Barkley thinks that the Oklahoma City Thunder will win the Western Conference Finals.
Courtesy of USA Today’s Sam Amick:
There was pressure building on Sunday night at a hotel bar not far from the Thunder’s home, where a wayward Warriors fan was so enraged that TNT analyst Charles Barkley picked the Thunder to win the series that he challenged him to an actual fight (security was called, and the man was removed).
Dude! This is so incredibly not cool! Sure, there are times where Chuck’s takes are so scorching hot that you may get mad – that’s a thing that happens when you pay too much attention to things people on television who are paid to peddle hot takes say. But to go so far as to challenge Barkley to a fight? That’s a little much, pal. I understand that you’re emotional over what the Thunder are doing to the Warriors right now, but that’s over the line.
Let’s institute a new rule. If you get the urge to fight Charles Barkley because of a basketball thing he says on television, suppress that urge immediately. Heck, just suppress the urge to fight people. Fighting people is not a good thing.
(via USA Today)
