18 kwietnia 2006
Maybe He Was Just Tired of Hearing "Moon River"
New York Red Bulls forward and all around jerk Amado Guevara is under investigation by Major League Soccer after Real Salt Lake player Andy Williams alleged that he hurled a racial epithet his way.Given Guevara's "Me Me Me or I'll Cry" behavior last season, I am not willing to lend him any benefit of the doubt on this one.
When I was working for the Tucson Amigos, we had one African-American player, Bobby Bell, whose day job was as a guard at Florence prison. We had a game against one of the Armenian-American teams in Los Angeles, either the San Fernando Valley Heroes or the San Gabriel Valley Highlanders, I can't remember which. One of these guys we played against was apparently relentless with his N-bombs towards Bell.
After the game was over, the guy went to Bell to shake his hand. He said, "It's part of the game, right." Bell refused to shake his hand. Bell was a decent guy, I couldn't imagine him refusing to shake the hand of a fellow player, even if that guy broke his leg. Bell explained to him that it didn't hurt him, but he wasn't going to shake his hand.
Bell told me afterward that he heard worse every day at work, but this was different. He said he really didn't see any need to shake that guy's hand.
Hasta la proxima. Do zobaczenia.
