Let’s put politics aside for a minute and enjoy the beginning of America’s greatest annual springtime intercollegiate athletic competition, March Madness. Things got off to a thrilling start today: “During their school’s NCAA Tournament game against Kansas State University today, members of the Southern Mississippi University band chanted, ‘Where’s your green card?’ at a Puerto Rican Kansas State player.” [Think Progress]
WONKETTE SPORTS 4:27 pm March 15, 2012
College Kids Demand To See U.S. Citizen’s Green Card While He’s Playing Basketball
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Have we learned nothing from the lesson of West Side Story?!
Don't bring a knife to a gun fight?
Don't date a Nuyoricana?
Athletic modern dance is the best way to resolve our differences?
Gang membership requires at least three years of modern dance and two of jazz tap?
I thought that was the lesson of Guys and Dolls…
Bloods and Crips? Kill a rival
Sharks and Jets? Straddle jump one
Redub Natalie Wood's singing voice?
Don't expect Officer Krupke to clear up your internecine squabbles?
Something about snapping? Lots of snapping. I am musical ig'nant. I apologize.
There's a place for us?
Everything's free in America?
For a small fee in America! [dance break 8 bars]
Step step pivot turn…
If you meet a girl named Maria, suddenly that name will never be the same? To meeeeeeeeeeeeeee……
I feel pretty
Oh so pretty?
Oh, so pretty, and witty, and LGBT
Yeah!
Fay?
Totally.
They should change the name of the state to Missasloppy.
Or Missichuggy
How was vacation? I assume you walked to save money due to Obama's high gas prices that he could lower to $2.50/gallon with the stroke of a pen and an icy stare at certain Saudi kings. But I digress.
Did these "college students" really expect someone from Puerto Rico who is going to diversity haven Kansas State to hable inglés? That tells us all we need to know about academic standards in Missasloppy. (I assume their SAT scores are calculated during senior year duck-duck-goose games.)
Vacation was wonderful, thanks for asking.
Didja get some? Or are you healed up enough?
Nah, I am still on a sausage-free diet, according to my zorch doctor. I have an appointment at 8 A.M. to see if I am healing internally. It's going to be another 2 weeks before I can play "escaped convict and warden's wife" again. I'm hoping that Jeff has a fetish for 12 inch scars. Just kidding, my husband is the most loving, patient, thoughtful, caring and awesome person I've ever met.
Mississucky
Classy!
I think you mean KKKlassy.
Damn, spellcheck strikes again.
Kansas State's response: where's your front teeth?
Teeth?
Toof, you mean.
Or any teeth at all..?
In Mississippi, they just have hardened gums from chewing the cheesy grits.
This is just one more excuse for me to despise every sport.
I never get them… I didn't go to sporty college
Hey, my college were NCAA basketball champions my senior year! That is, champion of their – um, whatever they call the grouping of teams that play each other in college basketball is – in division 3. Nobody gave a shit; and in fact the fact that nobody at my school gave a shit about the sports teams was one of the big factors in deciding to go there.
And despise Mississippi. I still can't believe they have Universities down there.
Yeah, where do they get high school graduates?…
This is why the only sport I follow is Women's Professional Wrestling.
I don't care about sports in the slightest. I'm just happy whenever a football team crushes that twerp Tebow.
Last I checked, Kansas has yet to declare itself un-American and fight a war over it. Ergo: this kid from Manhattan is more American than your fat Piggly Wiggly ass, Hattiesburg.
Your move, University of Alabama band…
This means Arizona State will have to actually storm the floor with pitchforks and torches to remain top seed.
Wait til the Final Four: there's plans to erect an electrified fence at half court.
And thus it turns into Space Jam and the Loony Toons will clinch their come from behind victory, confounding sports bookies everywhere.
Having been in a collegiate marching band at various NCAA tournaments, this is actually fairly tame for what gets yelled by a bunch of drunken idiots with no hand/eye coordination to speak of.
I will concur – the BIGGEST drankers I ever knew were in the band here – I MEAN DUUURRRUUUUUNNNNKKKSS. But could still tote a tuba or whatnot in formation, in WOOL uniforms, in August, in Alabama. Pretty impressive. Less so in a rugby on the side of a basketball game being racist.
But, the actual bands are supposed to be classy and highly disciplined. The fans? Not so much, but the bands are supposed to be examples, at least while on the field or in the stands. After that, though, they are allowed to let their freak-flags fly.
You can only imagine what they had to say to the sluts of the cheerleading squad.
People in Mississippi are racist fools – stop the presses!
Yeah, the clue is in the words "Southern" and "Mississippi". I'm south therefore I'm bigot…..
Sure, but the Southern Mississippi University band only consists of a 30 year old freshman playing the jug and his cousin girlfriend playing the banjo.
"The jug" or her jugs?
"The jug" is on his knee. Her "jugs" are on the floor.
In that case, his cousin girlfriend would have also been his great-grandmother.
It's all been studied and set to music….fyi: lyrics to "I am My Own Grandpaw"…
Ahem… SISTER girlfriend.
They DO go to SMU. How the hell would they know Puerto Rican people are american citizens?
So did Brett Favre. So I figure that means they ALL have 4 inch dicks, and this is why they act this way.
Four? If the photo on Deadspin is accurate, Favre is lucky if he's got three full inches…
I stand corrected, absolutely – I saw the same deadspin "spread" (that poor girl) I was just going by that joke on Tosh (I think) about them adding the inches symbol to his number 4 jersey. He is obviously very proud of that pitiful thing, that's for sure.
Aw, quit picking on the brain-damaged….
I had KState on my bracket anyway. Suck it, Southern Miss Golden Eagles – what, was AMERICA'S eagle not good enough for you Commies?
But Beck told them to buy GOLD! GOLD!
Sigh
Oh lord, did you take SoMiss?
Oh, please, as if.
13 points and 4 assists, for the win. How's that for a green card?
I'm pretty sure the Spanish for "green card" is "FUCK YOU MISSISSIPPI"
Especially among Teh Brownz whose people have lived in this country way longer than all them Piggrimz, if you get my drift.
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-A-N-T-H-R-O-P-I-S-T
Oh, good ol' USoMiss. The only school in the nation that includes Drinking 101 in its Fine Arts curriculum
(true story, it's the only school outside of Louisiana to give two days off for Mardi Gras)
Lightweights. REAL schools require advanced alcoholism as a general. No one graduates from my state school without at LEAST six credit hours of drinking under their belt.
Yea, but that's the engineering degree. Fine Arts usually has the potheads. But not SoMiss! No no! It's beer or GTFO!
Somehow that must mean that we are subsidizing their tit exposure, cogito ergo sum, I deserve a copy of the sex tape.
No FAIR! Here in MA, I had advanced alcoholism, and I flunked out.
Pardon me, but do you have a problem with us getting two days off for our most important cultural ritual? Or are you one of those ignorant folk who don't realize that Mardi Gras is not actually just a week-long frat party?
You wan' beads?
I have plenty, thanks. I'm one of the people who throw those things to our hoards of lovely cash-filled visitors.
Who you calling a whoar?
Ah well, I give up. Ignorant gonna be ignorant, not matter which way they bread's buttrered.
I thought they hanged Catholics around those parts.
They used to. But ya' know the Klan has gotten with the modern times & allows them to be members now.
Well … only teh WHITE ones.
(Hugs the Loaded one fondly) I'm still out here and will be for another month. But at least I finally got a decent fucking InterNETZ, even if it only lets me comment when everybody's snoring in bed.
Show us your tits!
The truth done did hurt, now dun'nit?
The basketball head coach, Larry Eustachy, was the head coach of my Alma Mater until a picture surfaced of him enjoying some Natty Lights with some coeds on campus in Columbia, MO. after Iowa State had defeated the Mizzou Tigers.
Meh. Long have I loved my Wonkette, but if the standards of comedy are going to rest on disparaging of my local joie de vivre and cultural not-a-damn-giving, then perhaps my spirit doesn't quite fit. I can attack those of mean spirt all day, but when those of us who just want to have a good time and enjoy life, in the spirit of Epicurus, become targets of vitriol, I question my place in the commentariat.
I know that this in no way reflects upon me, but for some reason I'm ashamed to live in Pittsburgh.
Something in the Western Pennsyltucky air brings out the yob in some people
You don't have to be ashamed about this … but about that governor of yours ….
Right on, Mississip'! Keeping the WTF in Winning The Future~
K-State vs KKK-State.
Mississippi seceded. We could ask the same of their citizenship status.
wouldn't it be nice if we could one day deport people to Mississippi? "back to the bronze age with you, Cletus."
Sigh. Here I go through all the effort I can to ignore the stupid unpaid minor league basketball tournament, when the world keeps trying to force me to pay attention and tell me there's something wrong with me for not giving a shit, and now here it's infecting the Wonkette too.
Conforrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm! CONforrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrm! CONFORRRRRRRRRRRRRRM!!!
Where's your long form bracket?
If I ever had to fill one of those out, I'd just randomly stick teams on there, having no clue about any of them. Does that make me unAmerican?
No, that doesn't make you unAmerican. Being a single, no car owning, person who takes public transportation is why you're unAmerican.
And I suppose living in an urban apartment, being a college graduate and not believing in the whole Jesus thing doesn't help. And hmm, except for the no car thing you fit all those criteria too, you unAmerican dirty commie.
Metro libel!
That's exactly how I win in my family's tournament-bracket-nonsense-games EVERY YEAR!
The only reason *anyone* pays any attention to this shit is gambling on the games. If there wasn't money on it you could hold these games in a fucking high school gym. It would be like horse racing without betting-would anyone watch it if they didn't have money on it? At the Kentucky Derby you can people watch, but at a regular horserace it is almost as stimulating as going to a casino.
And just think – 60% of those kids doing the chanting are on their way to becoming atheists. Makes you think.
Which is more than we can say for that marching band.
We don't want 'em.
I don't think So Miss is a "College" in the traditional sense.
If they could be made to think, would they be going to college in Mississippi?
Indoctrination, it's not just for college, anymore….ask Rick….
If only it would make THEM think.
And Puerto Ricans have US passports…
And Rick Santorum just told them to speak English.
Instead of that ghetto language they all speak.
I would try to pass as Columbian or Cuban if I were traveling overseas these days.
Directional schools, come on. The poor things.
According to Santorum, the Constitution requires all Puerto Ricans to get Green Cards.
Good old Southern Mississtupidity.
Mississippi…last in the tournament but first in racism.
A southern swing and a Southern Miss.
When I was at Mississippi State in 1971, the homecoming king was African-American.
The great Babe McCarthy snuck the MSU team out of the state so they could play in the 63 NCAAs against integrated teams.
MSU had the first Black head football coach in the SEC.
USM band kids doing something stupid? I am stunned!
So Miss fans go home now. Your sisters are lonely.
I know a boat they can get on…
Fucking Sea Mexicans, what country are they a territory of?
Why were they shouting at him? Rick Santorum said that Puerto Ricans don't know words in English.
USM show us your humanity.
This guy's CANADIAN….. GET HIM BOYZ
http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/player…
Was this coordinated with the Santorum campaign?
I chanted at Charles Barkely, in college. He was known as "Where's The Beef Barkely" then. I was wearing an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. . . .
Gawd that is stupid. They should have been chanting "Donde es tu carte verde?" As everyone knows Puerto Ricans speak not a word of English, by law.
Clearly Sherman shouldn't have stopped the burning at Atlanta.
*grabs gas can*
Burn down houses in the poorest state in the country, one with a heart-breaking number of women, children, and families at risk? That should certainly make things better.
They're just sluts….
If North hadn't done it, the Confederacy would have done it themselves. Like they did here in Richmond.
If the burning sensation lasts more than four hours, call your general.
America is exceptional, alright.
< /snark >
Southern MS President Dr. Martha Saunders issues apology and promises disciplinary action.
< snark >
Obviously another elitist degreed college type who has been indoctrinated by Obama.
Check your link
Well, he can't edit it now, can he?
You would have thought Southern Miss fans would be more appreciative – Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico are the good kind of Hispanic American citizens. They can't vote.
But it's no harm no foul**, as Rick Santorum was quick to point out, because the K-State player couldn't understand what they said.
**Notice how smoothly the basketball phrase is incorporated into this comment on a basketball related story. That's some Mitt Romney like smoothness right there.
Are you friends with any baseball team owners?
Uh, the basketball team is black.
Lots of kids in the band are black.
And the narrative goes how?
Sadly we can be assholes too.
Assholery knows not race, class, gender, faith, nor regional boundaries. I take great comfort in that.
Good to know that it's not limited to Pale-Americans.
Wait, so black people can't be racist and classless?
It doesn't matter who the fuck is doing it; it's stupid. That's the point.
SMU can carry on like wayward sons all they want because they're now dust in the wind.
Losers in b-ball and in reason.
I see what you did there.
And they've reached the point of know return.
my cats are smarter than the state of mississippi.
(any present company excepted)
Did you just call my cat "dumb"?
From the comments:
"I just want to say that, as a student of Southern Miss, this is NOT representative of the university as a whole!"
Why on earth would anybody assume that a bunch of students that the school has put distinctive uniforms on and literally parades in front of TV cameras actually represent the school?
Uh, you were clever enough to look at the basketball team before you wrote this?
Yes, I'm sure the basketball team is the finest that scholarship money can buy, regardless of race. But we're talking about the band, the ironically-named "Pride of Mississippi."
The basketball team has many fathers, but the band is an orphan?
I am shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED! (Clutches pearls, swoons).
Rick Santorum approves.
Why were they chanting in English?
Angel Rodriguez is my hero. Respect.
Mississippi and Kansas have universities?
Folks from Mississippi saying racist shit? Why I don't know what to think about this irony.
You guys don't get it. At Southern Miss, that is considered polite. I mean it's not like they called him a spick…to his face.
Can we just frickin' finally go ahead and make Puerto Rico a state, and then make Mississhitti a territory? And make Spanish the official language of Mississhitti.
Saves on new flags, too, also.
If this can believed, The University of Southern Mississippi fans are even worse.
Stay klassy, Mississippuh.
Honestly, this is fucking disgraceful, and the band, no less. You expect stupid shit from random fans, but the band? Are you fucking kidding me?!
To be honest the chanting only shows how ignorant they are. They don't know that Puertoricans are American Citizens. They don't know that more Puertoricans have died defending our democracy that people born in the State of Mississipi. To begin the 65th Infantry was completaly Puertorican.
Besides, must Puerto Ricans know English and Spanish. They all might not be balance bilinguals, but in the United States must people aren't.
Ur mom.
She's got plenty of beads, but thanks.
Neither of you hate the gays enough. Therefore, you're both gay Muslim lovin' commie Nazis who hate America.
You two are SO cute when you're making kissy-kissy on Teh InnerNETZ.
So true. And sb loves women, and mt is not self loathing, so they're right out.
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