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Should Pro Players be responsible for their remarks outside competition.

Partihard·8/13/2015, 3:51:02 PM·2 votes·544 views
TSM_Bjergsen

I joined Lol on patch 5, and I love the game. I love watching professionals and their talents with the game. Now lately I have been watching some of my favorite players streams to help improve my game. And I notice on this video a comment made which made me sad at about 2:30 minutes into it. "Stupid Americans..." I did not expect this from one of my favorite players who ironically plays for the North American LCS. I am very tolerant to many things, but I do feel if you are a pro player and you represent a country and at same time you make rude remarks like this. I expect this from a competition lcs. You should represent your league for the love of it. But at pro level just like any professional sports your attitude outside the sport matters considerably considering you are a role model. My question for the League community is, Are we recruiting players just because they are talented and evaluating their professionalism outside the game? I am sure I am not the only one disappointed to hear some one that I admire so much from my home team feels about me.

5 Comments

Trylobyte8/13/2015, 4:26:45 PM6 votes

As an American I can honestly say that the phrase 'Stupid Americans' is not only inoffensive but one I often agree with.

TurquoiseYoshi8/13/2015, 4:34:01 PM4 votes

In all honesty, other pro sports in America have more important problems with their players misbehaving. Like DUI and abuse. The police will not arrest you for saying that Americans are stupid.

In any case, Bjergsen was being sarcastic, as he was talking about how most Americans can't speak Danish, a language only spoken by around 6 million people (as opposed to English, which is in the billions).

j j8/13/2015, 4:17:12 PM2 votes

You think everyone in the nfl nhl nba = saints? Give me a break. Grow a pair if you don't like them simply don't watch them. Or watch them but watch without volume.

Gaxx D8/13/2015, 4:21:47 PM2 votes

Way to take something out of context. I don't even know if I should comment on this post, but I already took the bait. There are milions of Americans, who'd call other Americans stupid (just like I'm Polish and I often call other Polish people in the same manner - one of the reasons I play on EUW and not EUNE is so I don't have to deal with polish players). I suggest you stop being overly patriotic when it comes to games. Bjergsen is NOT representing America. He's representing TSM. He's NOT playing for the love of the country (LOL, that was a good one though, you are more naiive than I thought), he's playing for the money. And sorry, but if you want to watch something "politically correct" (even if it always means beating around the bush), then I don't think that watching a stream of a 20 yeard old guy (he's somewhere around that age) is a good idea.