Hey, Ryan Getzlaf fans — you can stop now.
The Anaheim Ducks hockey player was fined $10,000 by the NHL after he exclaimed “c*cksucker” during a playoff game.
So now, fans of the Ducks have launched a GoFund Me page to help him pay the fine.
We should probably mention that Getzlaf takes home $9.25 million a year.
How about we take this to the next level?
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The GoFundMe page reads:
Ryan Getzlaf was unfairly given the maximum fine by the sinister NHL for accurately calling a ref a rooster vacuum. Now if everyone donates just $1 we can raise enough money to send a message to the NHL that no more will this kind of snowflake over reaction to words stand. If we are able to raise enough money it can go to the ducks captain to give to a local charity of his choice. Let’s make 10k go somewhere it’s going to do some good (instead of the players association fund). At any rate I ask all ducks fans and all Bettman haters to unite and undue this terrible injustice! Ducks fly together!
As of this writing, the page has raised $275.
After calling the referee a c*cksucker, Getzlaf released the obligatory sorry-not-sorry statement, as USA Today reports.
?: #NHLDucks captain Ryan Getzlaf on the Game 4 incident and tonight's loss. pic.twitter.com/NqOUUrbiaQ
— Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) May 21, 2017
“I’ve got to be a little bit more responsible with the words I choose.
As a father and as somebody that takes a lot of pride in this game, and the respect for it, it’s tough to see somebody refer to it as what TSN did.
I didn’t mean it in that manner in any way, and for that to go that route, was very disappointing for me.
I understand it’s my responsibility to not use vulgar language-period. Whether it’s a swear word or whatever it is, we’ve got to be a little bit more respectful of the game and that’s up to me and I will accept that responsibility and will move forward.”
Mack
The $275 shows a lot of interest. LOL I find that many of the “GO FUND ME” accounts are for stupid reasons.
Jack Meoff
Agreed, so many frivolous go fund me accounts set up that only serve to diminish the more legitimate and needed accounts.
walterhpdx
Getzlaf’s words = more reasons not to like the Ducks.
Getzlaf’s fans = more reasons to donate to the awesome You Can Play project.
smartoad
How can what he said (I won’t write as the filter will kick in :rolleyes: ) be homophobic? Many women do it too! 😉
Kieran
How much did the unfunny homophobe Steven Colbert have to pay?
Giancarlo85
So says the little man who supports the GOP, where a recent Congressman called for lynching those who remove confederate symbols. Go back under the rock you came from. And how is dumpster doing? 36% approval rating and a complete failure of a President.
Colbert wasn’t being homophobic ftw.
Giancarlo85
And you know what is unfunny? Idiot gay Republicans who would sell all their rights away from nothing.
Mo Bro
Colbert’s a liberal, so his unfunny homophobic remarks aren’t to be held to them same standards; athletes are presumed conservative, therefore offense must be taken at anything they say.
dwes09
Ha! a regressive attempting to demonstrate they understand personal history, context and intent!! Why do you even bother? It just makes you look even duller.
mhoffman953
Glad to see someone pointed out the hypocrisy. A hockey player gets heated during the game and calls someone a c*cksucker and people are up in arms calling him a homophobe and he is forced to apologize.
Steven Colbert intentionally calls the President of the United States a c*cksucker in a rehearsed monologue and doesn’t apologize then is applauded as a hero.
dwes09
And here is yet another regressive that has no understanding of context, personal history or intent. They are so one dimensional and shallow in their thinking!
mhoffman953
@dwes09
Fine, let’s analyze the things you mentioned then.
First: context. The NHL star used it as a spur of the moment slur in the middle of a high adrenaline game without thinking it through, Colbert used it as a slur in a pre-written monologue which he thought through with a team of writers and edited and felt it was appropriate.
Second: personal history. The NHL star as far as I know doesn’t have a prior history of using “homophobic” or anti-gay slurs. Colbert has repeatedly made jokes about people he doesn’t like sucking each other’s d*cks.
Third: intent. The NHL star’s intent was to disagree with a bad call from a referee and was spur of the moment. Colbert’s intent was mock people he doesn’t like in a rehearsed monologue.
If the left want to argue that one is bad, then both should be bad. You can’t live in a pick-and-choose world where vocal liberals get passes
Pompino
I see nothing wrong with the comment. Now if he described the ref’s ability to perform the act
“as being unskilled or unprofessional” then there might be a bias for which a fine should be levied.
blackhook
What an ugly beardo!
Paco
“C*cksucker”
Yeah and damned good at it too. No apologies or shame.
ethan_hines
How is it that this is even allowed on Gofundme? In anycase I made a formal complaint.
Mo Bro
I wonder if you understand that this is exactly the kind of thing that makes us look like petulant whiners to the rest of the world, and why I tell people my lgb affiliation begins and ends at the bedroom door.
smh . . .
dwes09
Yeah (idiot); just like objections to casual racism makes people of color look like petulant whiners. Are you actually as stupid as your comments always make you seem?
paul dorian lord fredine
so you’re being gay (if you really are) is defined only by what you do in bed? that’s rather sad but it does feed into the conservative view that all gays think about is sex. how’s it feel to be a stereotype?
dwes09
The reason you tell people you lbg affiliation begins and ends at the bedroom door is your shame and distaste for your own preference: and your sadly internalized feeling that your preference is shameful and should not be discussed in the way that heterosexuals discuss theirs all the time. Not only are you intellectually dull, but you are pitiful as well!
BigWill
Fake Biracial Bisexual…I mean Mo! There’s our little darling! It’s adorable that you’re using “us.” Very clever, you little mouse pie!
Mo Bro
@paul etc etc:
You’re apoplectic over a jock using a freaking WORD, and yet you’re labeling ME the stereotype?
Humor like that absolutely makes my day, so thank you.
Xzamilloh
I wasn’t offended by Colbert, I’m not offended here. I just don’t care.
nycbklyn
@dwes09 & GianCarlo85 wow you guyscare extremely bitter and closeminded. I in no way support Trump orRepublicans, but everyones entitled to an opinion and lob insults at anyone that diagrees with you or your ideas is petulant and regressive
Giancarlo85
Grow up. You just don’t like that I say the truth about the utter hypocrisy of right wing gays. The same losers who love the far right… Who would have you put into concentration camps (like Steve Bannon would.
Trump is a fascist and you traitors will be crushed next year. the Dutch and French elections were just the beginning.
dave_trovato
As DUMB as a DUCK to make such a remark…….
Giancarlo85
Right wing gays. F**k off please. Nobody cares about you selling out your community. It is obvious you do anything for crumbs.
Giancarlo85
And how about some fake promises of security? The Donny hasn’t filled half of the Pentagon vacancies that exist. Really securing the nation isn’t he? You people make me sick.
KaiserVonScheiss
I don’t really see the problem. I say that word all the time. It’s a great word and has great expressive value. It just feels good to say it.
Anyway, go Preds!
Captain Obvious
I don’t get how advertising the gofundme page with an article is helping to keep their donations low. You do realize the last time you linked to one of these pages the donations jumped a huge amount?
batesmotel
Where is this homophobic tantrum though? All he said was the c word. I use it all the time. And he apologized. I would never apologize. It’s too bad if you can’t handle it.
smartoad
The fine seems, to me, to be the fact that he insulted the referee rather than being homophobic.
I have probably used that term (though probably in my younger years than my adult) and as I mentioned women do it to, it isn’t an exclusive gay thing (even if I am rather good at it!)
Why is there never an out cry when people use the word ducking (you’ll need to substitute the letter there)?
Richard 55
Yes – how come Stephen Colbert can get away with it ? Liberals are such hypocrites.
rbernard
$10K should sting enough to make Ryan Getzlaf think twice the next time he gets mad and thinks about making a slur about what our community likes to do.
BlackCare555
Stay at home mom Kelly Richards from New York after resigning from her full time job managed to average from $6000-$8000 a month from freelancing at home… This is how she done it
…….
???USA~JOB-START
Stilinski26
Didn’t Colbert said the same thing and didn’t the writers from this website defended him?
hansniemeijer
What did the singer Joe Jackson say? You can call me fa***t if you are my friend. This Ryan was not friendly so the fine was correct. Maybe an even higher amount would be appropriate.