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Death threats?

Discussion in 'Steelers Talk' started by strummerfan, Dec 12, 2023.

  1. strummerfan

    strummerfan Well-Known Member

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    People sending death threats to players. Wtf is wrong with people? It’s a mother loving football game. A ****ing game.
     
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  2. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    How does one send a death threat? Call them on their cell phone? Mail them a letter? Send them an email? How do people even get that info?
     
  3. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Snoozing

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    It isn’t hard to find where someone lives
     
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  4. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    I guess. My uncle lived in a wealthy neighborhood near Cleveland where Browns players had homes nearby. Guess he could have wrote a letter and dropped it in a mailbox otherwise not really sure how.
     
  5. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    Doesn’t surprise me. Look at the world we live in. Ignorance everywhere. If/when they catch someone doing this they should beat the living daylights out of them.
     
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  6. The Sodfather

    The Sodfather Well-Known Member

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    Sickening. People are f^%ked up.
     
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  7. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    Probably people who are degenerate gamblers and lost their homes on a bet or something. No way any fan could care enough about these losers to waste their time drafting a letter and risking jail time I would hope.
     
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  8. jeh1856

    jeh1856 Snoozing

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    This isn’t new

    This has been going on as long as I can remember which is well almost well oh heck I can’t remember
     
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  9. Hanratty#5

    Hanratty#5 Well-Known Member

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    Who was getting death threats? A Steeler player or someone else around the league? Like DJ18 was saying probably some idiot who blew all of the families Christmas money betting on football.
     
  10. Hanratty#5

    Hanratty#5 Well-Known Member

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    Surely you remember when War Admiral received death threats after losing his match race to Sea Biscuit? Weren't you a young newsie back then hawking the Pittsburgh Press?
     
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  11. GoldBurgh

    GoldBurgh Well-Known Member

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    I can only imagine how much money some lost the last two week betting on these stiffs, lol.

    Also, what was the futures vegas over/under on number of Steeler wins this year?
     
  12. santeesteel

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    There have been a couple of soccer players beaten and, at least one, killed by disgruntled fans. People put way to much importance on these games!
     
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  13. Formerscribe

    Formerscribe Well-Known Member

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    Maybe old-fashioned snail mail. The Dodgers received boxes of them when they first called up Jackie Robinson.
     
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  14. doubleyoi

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    8.5 wins.
     
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  15. Steelpens65

    Steelpens65 Well-Known Member

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    When they had the pony express to deliver mail when you were growing up?
     
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  16. steelersrule6

    steelersrule6 Well-Known Member

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    They send it on social media sites like Instagram, it's easy to send a DM to people.
     
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  17. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    Social media is the ultimate downside of society. It’s funny China who owns Tik Tok allows anything and everything on its site for America to dissolve itself in yet only allows limited educational parameters for their own country’s usage.
     
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  18. LambertsDentist

    LambertsDentist Well-Known Member

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    This is sickening. It goes beyond any sense of human decency. If you must makes death threats against football players at least makes them against ravens.

    Disclaimer: I type this in jest! I'm not really advocating killing Raven players, so if the FBI is monitoring this board, don't come after me!
     
  19. 86WardsWay

    86WardsWay Well-Known Member

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    I wouldn’t advocate any physical violence to an athlete over a simple game but Mike Vick could have been thrown into a vicious dog pit and I would have probably donated towards a PPV event. Extra butter popcorn would have been in the evening plans as well.
     
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  20. Hanratty#5

    Hanratty#5 Well-Known Member

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    Yeah we don't need anymore killing. A Ravens player has killed enough people.
     
  21. hmmmmm

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    Not sure how someone could get that upset about it. This last few years I am surprised when they win versus the past when I was surprised by a loss. Thanks Tomlin
     
  22. Ray D

    Ray D Staff Member Mod Team

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    I miss the good ol' days, when people just threw garbage on your lawn.

    (It's a joke. Calm down)

    Calling for someone to be fired, cut, traded, etc is how fandom has always gone. But going after a player's private life, family, or threatening them is completely uncalled for. What a disgrace.
     
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  23. DJ18Baller

    DJ18Baller Well-Known Member

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    OK that makes sense forgot about all that crap because I don’t use it anymore.
     
  24. SteelerGlenn

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    Who got death threats
     
  25. Karl

    Karl Well-Known Member

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    My ex-wife sends me death threats on a weekly basis... been going on for 40+ years.
    I got sick a couple times.
     
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