davetherave wrote:Excuse me folks...but I'm French Canadian...and not a Habs fan...never have been.
Calling francophones 'buttheads'? Really now.
A little tolerance here, folks...this is hockey series...not a cultural debate.
:KJK:
All apologies Dave, Sensgirl and any other French or French-Canadian member of this lovely hockey community, as I'm sure the comment in question merely meant the biligerant Habs fans and not simply to mean ALL Francophones and all (myself included as my Mother is 110% Pure Quebecer as are both my grandmother and grandfather). So, believe me, one half of my entire family are HARDCORE hab fans; but I'm proud to say NONE of them chant.
Anyhow, I'm sure SF didn't mean any harm and unless anyone objects, I can alter said post. You are absolutely correct DTR, where this is a hockey community, and while heated debates occur on occasion, it should never enter the domain of race, creed, culture or nationality scrutiny or debasing or both.
EDIT: Also, having chatted many times with SF, I will take a guess here and assume that since he has a very unique and broad sense of humor like me, he may have simply gotten carried away and not thought that statement through.
I've since modified his post, and I hope we can all assume this misunderstanding/poorly expressed joke issue is now resolved.