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SAY IT AIN'T SO, SPORTS

SAY IT AIN'T SO, SPORTS GUY: From Bill Simmons' Super Bowl blog today:

I've been thinking about it ... I'm going to miss Houston. Remember when the Zionists kidnapped Patty Hearst, and she started to identify with them, and pretty soon she was robbing banks? That's how I'm feeling. I like being miserable. I love traffic. I don't need to see the sun ever again. I might never leave.

Um, Zionists? The Symbionese Liberation Army were many things, but Zionists they were certainly not, as Zionism was very much not a trendy left-wing cause in the mid-'70s. I'd like to think Bill simply mistyped here and this isn't a Gregg Easterbrook situation; expect the entry to be changed, probably by the time you read this- at least I hope so, since I'd rather not see him get fired too.

UPDATE: Yep, now it says "SLA." But I'll give Simmons a mulligan on this one- his team did just win the Super Bowl, after all.

Posted by Stephen Silver at February 1, 2004 02:12 PM