Remember when LeBron James “betrayed” the city of Cleveland, the state of Ohio and goodness knows what else when he uttered the following words, “I’m going to take my talents to South Beach and join the Miami Heat” to Jim Gray in that debacle of broadcast journalism, “The Decision”? You do? Great. And do you also remember how Cavaliers fans reacted to his decision? Not well, right? In fact, many of them took to the streets to protest and some of those folks decided the best way to articulate their anger by burning all of their LeBron James jerseys and other assorted apparel.
That’s when someone got the bright idea that instead of destroying perfectly good clothing, maybe the classier and less wasteful thing to do would be to turn and negative into a positive and take all those unwanted jerseys and t-shirts and donate them to charity? More specifically, why not ship all of it down to Miami for the homeless in LeBron’s new NBA home?
Great plan. And admirable. Unfortunately, there’s one problem:
The homeless don’t want the crappy stuff.
Technically, it’s not the homeless who are refusing the Cavaliers duds. Instead, the charitable act sadly – and somewhat perplexingly, I might add – has turned into some kind of political issue.
Via Sporting News:
“It’s on hold right now,” Rita Clark of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless told BrowardPalmBeach.com. “There’s a lot of politics around this.”
“It seemed very well-intentioned, but it’s not gonna happen right away,” Clark says. “I’m trying to help them be better-received here in Miami.”
Jeez, it’s just clothing, people. Let’s not overreact. Who in the heck is in charge of the Miami Coalition for the Homeless, anyway, Rebecca DeMornay? How about we allow cooler heads to prevail here and provide the homeless with some much needed clothing? At least until we reach the point when the homeless who are wearing LeBron James Cavs jerseys are strapped to rickshaws. That’s the line that cannot be crossed, Rusty.
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Miami organization not accepting donated LeBron jerseys [Sporting News]
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- DaPacSux - Sep 4, 2010 at 9:41 PM
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LOL !!! Good one April ! You made my day a little funnier.
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- me - Sep 6, 2010 at 6:17 PM
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Amazing. Utterly amazing. The oceans are being polluted on a gross scale. The air you breath and the food you eat, poisoned. Your politicians constantly lie to you, and take your rights away one after another. Your world is being destroyed by the elitist groups and all you can talk about is F***ing sports. I am begining to believe that you deserve all you have been getting. Stop listening to the mainstream media, they spout this drivel like it has any importance. they are scyophants anyways. Start thinking more about the world around you. Maybe then you will all wake up to reality.
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- Destro - Sep 7, 2010 at 6:44 PM
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This is silly.
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- HAHA - Sep 9, 2010 at 11:38 AM
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You are a joke and have never worked a day in your life. If I gave something to a homeless individual and he said he didn’t like it you can bet he will never receive anything from me again. This is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard. Get a job David, and stop being a cancer to our society.
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- frkn - Sep 20, 2010 at 1:49 PM
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of gors
