Posted on 07/10/2010 12:37:48 PM PDT by wrrock
Workers began dismantling the 10-story-tall iconic image of James on a mural in downtown Saturday, a billboard that has dominated the city’s skyline for years but is being taken down now that the superstar has left the Cavaliers for the Miami Heat.
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This is why we should not pay a physical homage to a living person. They still have the opportunity to betray you.
Honestly, this is pathetic.
I can’t believe that people are so upset about this. Yes Cleveland will lose some money but they can recover. The current crop of players need to step up. It is so amazing that this is generating so much news. Even on FR they are comparing the basketball player to Ronald Reagan. Now that is just sick and it is most disappointing coming from FREEPERS!!!!
Not cool.
Sour grapes and bitterness is so very Obamao.
James gave Cleveland SEVEN years.
Evidently that wasn’t enough for them.
We are all Witnesses of the stupidity of elevating mere Pro Players to such exalted status. What a foolish society we have become and hitch wagons to the whims of these jackazz owners, players and yes...moronic fans too.
He gave us nothing. He was paid.
And as a free agent he had no business exercising his right to move to a new team?
If LeBron was a businessman who brought jobs to Cleveland, or a conservative trying to make the city better, would people still give him admiration and respect. Nope, he would have been called an Uncle Tom.
No wonder Cleveland is known as a loser when it comes to sports.
Oh, and the Cleveland jokes? You can't touch the ones we tell about ourselves, so you might as well save your breath. Some of you ankle biters are beginning to sound like Liberals.
I guess this is Pelosi plan. Pay people not to work.
“James gave Cleveland SEVEN years.
Evidently that wasn’t enough for them.”
Hey Carley, other way around...Cleveland gave James (quitness) a 7 year contract. If you live in C-town you would understand what just transpired. The boy wanted the limelight and he wanted the accolades and when he had a chance this year he laid a friggin egg. He quit on his team vs the Celtics this year. Some speculating that if he had won, he would have to come back and defend the title and thus not get his way in Miami. That is not to far fetched.
Ankle Biters: Not necessarily referring to you, EEE, but regarding your last comment, losers don’t fill arenas and stadiums year after year, and they generally don’t get near enough to championships to smell the trophy, lose, and then keep coming back to try again. Losers quit. We don’t.
“Losers quit. We don’t.”
As a fellow Cleveland West Sider....rack that!
Quitness can sink in the sand on South beach for all I care now...he quit on us and that is unacceptable unless your name is Obama and that POS can quit asap as far as I’m concerned....
As I have said before, the instrument to measure my indifference to LeBron (or the whole NBA for that matter) has yet to be invented.
I am not a huge sports fan but can someone answer why this is such a big deal? If a person fufills his contract and chooses to go somewhere else then what is the crime? From what I know professional athletes have only a specified amount of time to make their fortune. Why not go to a team they like and for a price that is better. How many people leave job A for job B if it offers more? Just confusing to me that someone is expected to have loyalty to a team or area and not loyalty to themselves and their family.
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