John Cena The Jet

[Pete]

you don't understand what football rivalries mean to this country? I find that surprising since soccer fans seem to kill each other over fucking colors...

Like you guys don't do the exact same thing. Soccer-haters make me lol.

 

[Defiant]

Can someone explain what exactly happened and why it is so offensive for Australians like me?

 

[Pete]

Apparently, Cena supports Team A but appeared as captain for Team B who are Team A's biggest rivals.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

Like you guys don't do the exact same thing. Soccer-haters make me lol.

I have yet to see any actual murders at a Football game. No molotovs, no bombs, nothing.

 

[Pete]

Fair enough. I assumed he meant it metaphorically.

 

[Rated R Superstar]

I'm sure he did, but the craziest I've seen a Football fan go is probably just scream and cry.

 

[We Are Legion]

It's no different than a professional athlete growing up as a Cowboys fan, but then getting drafted by the Redskins and having to temporarily realign his allegiance. John Cena's company has business in that area, that city will be lining his pockets, so it makes sense for him to support that city right now.

Seriously KIF, did you not think this thread through before posting it? No offence, but it seems like something a child would post.

 

[SBS]

Honestly if they wanted Cena to support a team in New York (this is obviously being done to hype Wrestlemania) that wasn't the Patriots biggest Rival they could have easily just had him Co-Captain with the Giants. They are the World Champs after all. (Unlike Cena) But as to the whole giving Cena crap for it? Anyone's who ever had a job knows that when the Boss tells you to do something you do it. Cena's first loyalty has always been the WWE. I mean why in the hell should he support the Patriots, (As a Giants fan I despise them btw) when everytime he goes to Boston he gets boo'd anyway. Now if it were a Barcelona fan going and captaining a Real Madrid game, that might be a little much, but honestly I believe this has been made a much bigger deal than it needs to be. I hate the Packers with a fiery passion but if i got paid what Cena does to go to a Jets game only with the Packers I'd do it in a heartbeat.

 

[We Are Legion]

Well I mean fuck, if you're a Patriots fan and you have the choice to support either 1) A division rival or 2) the team that beat your favorite team in the Super Bowl twice RECENTLY... I dunno, but I think I go with the former in that case.

 

[Deezy]

Sports team allegiance is the strangest phenomenon imo.

I never got it, although I do have teams I cheer for, I certainly wouldn't let it dictate what I thought of others just because they don't support the same team as me.

 

[SAL]

Cena did the same thing with the Tampa Bay Rays recently. Anyone who remembers all the throwback jerseys he used to wear has to know he's a huge sports fan. But he's fine with allowing business to take precedence over his sports allegiances. I don't have a problem with that. Now maybe the people who picked Cena for this spot are to blame for having him do it.

 

[Troy]

you don't understand what football rivalries mean to this country? I find that surprising since soccer fans seem to kill each other over fucking colors...

Soccer isn't popular in Australia.

Fans have their teams here but can easily differentiate between a guy doing a spot for his company and who a guy really supports. AFL is the biggest sport here and if a high profile supporter of my team, North Melbourne did a spot with another team for his employer it wouldn't bother me. If he actually changed teams then it would bother me.

Honestly in Australia we love our sport but we treat it as a sport, we are fantatical about sport but people don't step over that crazy line that often here.