Rick Bowness' post-game rant ripping Columbus Blue Jackets goes viral

Three nights ago, Columbus Blue Jackets coach Rick Bowness ripped his players for basically giving up on the team, the ownership and the fan-base in a post-game press conference that has gone viral. After suffering a 2-1 season-ending loss to the Washington Capitals at Nationwide Arena on April 14, Bowness said: “I don’t know if I’m back, but if I’m back, I’m changing this culture. These guys, they don’t care.

Losing is not important enough to them. ” I may not know as much about sports as some, but as one who got invited to a few professional hockey camps and one MLB camp, I at least understand enough to know when players have become entitled and put themselves before the fans who ultimately pay their salaries. And speaking of those fans, let’s focus on them for a moment.

In case players from the four major-league sports in our nation – baseball, basketball, football and hockey – making well north of $1 million per year have forgotten, life is a constant struggle for the vast majority of fans who support their teams. For decades, fans have turned to their local professional sports teams as a way to decompress minds truly overwhelmed by the day-to-day pressures of trying to pay the rent or the mortgage, feed their kids and keep the lights and heat on. More NHL: Florida Panthers will not three-repeat as Stanley Cup champions Over the years, I have heard countless people going through particularly tough times – including serious illness – repeat a version of: “Boy, if I didn’t have the Yankees (or Red Sox, Red Wings, Chiefs, Mavericks) to keep my mind distracted from my daily misery, I don’t know what I would do.

” Well, guess what? Countless fans who just watched the Blue Jackets collapse again are also dealing with continual personal issues and heartache and also turn to their local team for mental relief. A team they have gone above and beyond to support these last number of years.