A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection of fashion, sports and crime: dozens of men and women who have robbed, beaten, stabbed and shot at their fellow New Yorkers have done so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing.
A curious phenomenon has emerged at the intersection of fashion, sports and crime: dozens of men and women who have robbed, beaten, stabbed and shot at their fellow New Yorkers have done so while wearing Yankees caps or clothing.
Let me be the first to say, “I always knew those Yankee fans were evil”.
Only joking…
And I thought the link would take me to bostonherald.com.
[blockquote] Criminals might be wearing Yankees merchandise not because they are fans of the team, but because they are fans of the cocked-hat look popularized by Jay-Z and other rappers, said the criminologist, Frankie Y. Bailey, an associate professor at the University at Albany….[/blockquote]
*sigh* I had to deal with Yankee apologists of this sort during my years at SUNY. Could it not be true that bad guys are just naturally Yankee fans and Jay-Z is just hogging the team’s limelight? Of course, we Sox fans have always been aware of that something like this was occuring.
#2. Amen brother. Larry
#2. – Yep. The Yankee arrogance and swagger finds its fans.
Ron Troup- Red Sox fan since 1975 (year I started at Gordon-Conwell)
Yankee hater since 1952 (in my mother’s womb)
No surprise here. Southerners, and anyone else with even a cursory familiarity with the War of Northern Aggression, know that yankees are rapacious barbarians.