Posts by Jeremy Mitchell11

Taylor Hughes61 said:@Jeremy Mitchell11/">@@Jeremy Mitchell11 - Well, I think you kind of answered your own question there. You mentioned you didn't really know anyone from the Chicago Blackhawks fans crowd back then and that you mostly just did your own thing during away games. That’s probably why the Bad Boys didn't really notice you; Washington, D.C. is a huge city, and those guys were looking for organized groups, not just some guy wandering around solo. No offense intended, though.

I think you might have misread me. It's not that I was out there flying solo; honestly, if I remember right, maybe once or twice I was actually by myself. Most of the time, I wasn't going alone—I don't know why, but back then my crew wouldn't miss a game in Washington, D.C. for anything. Even now, if you look at the derby stats between D.C. and ST, the edge belongs way more to the D.C. side—I'd say it's easily over 70%,

We usually went as a group. Sometimes it was just two of us, sometimes a small convoy of 6 to 8 people in two cars, and about 80% of the time we had a little squad of three or four.

I can't say for sure since I spent so much time hitting up concerts, and there's always some group of college kids hanging around D.C., so maybe that's why I don't view the games as this incredibly high-tension thing. See, back in those days, practically every time you stepped out in D.C., you'd run into some kind of brawl. I personally got into a scrap with some skinheads outside of a game once—I still remember what happened with Phil Bree and those early parties where things got messy. I even remember getting jumped by some bloody skinhead in ST whose crew had just beaten someone up with a kitchen knife (and I was just on a trip, oh man 🙂🙂). Every single night you went out to any damn cafe, someone was fighting. You'd stumble into it walking through the city too, especially near the Rotor Works area because of how popular SH was. So, when you take all those experiences and add the fact that everyone expects high energy at Real Madrid or Juventus games, I guess you can see why it doesn't feel like an "extra intense" situation to me.

Add to that the fact that I'm just a wanderer, like everyone else. I'm always out and about; I even walked through town once with a banner wrapped under my shirt... basically, even if they didn't recognize me, if things were as tense as people claim (which, in my opinion, is a bit exaggerated), seeing 3 or 4 unknown guys in their prime just loitering around, I'm pretty sure I would've ended up in trouble more often than I did.

Maybe it's just me. I know a lot of locals said it was easy to film the Chicago Blackhawks fans because they were walking around with their eyes wide open, like some smuggler crossing the border or something. But I'll tell you, the one time I actually had a banner, I walked right under their section and even asked some guys if they had any "supplies" 🤣

Is anyone else digging up that old interview where Duane Chapman was speaking at that public town hall? I think he mentioned how his heart would only ever be with the Kansas City Chiefs, though he did touch on maybe playing for Atlanta or somewhere in Chicago... if I recall correctly, he even sounded pretty bummed about not landing a spot with the Buck because of it 🤣>

Anyway, happy New Year to everyone! I'm really hoping we see both the club and the fan base moving in a better direction. Maybe we can get a bit more of that raw, spontaneous energy back. It’d be a total miracle if we woke up one day and the atmosphere at the Rose Bowl was just pure, unadulterated passion. But honestly, the most important thing to me is that we actually learn how to really cheer—you know, by actually singing our hearts out.

Elizabeth Barnes7Recap:
Look, I’m gonna try explaining this one more time, nice and calm, even though it feels like half of what you wrote didn't even get read. There's one thing you just aren't grasping yet, but maybe you'll see it eventually. Most of us—mainly the core group within the Kansas City Chiefs community, but really all of us—have finally cleaned things up at the club. Basically, we've got an honest organization run by decent people now, and there's nowhere to go but up. As time goes on, we're honestly going to get even better because, well, both the fans and the front office are just getting smarter and more experienced every day.

But now, the stakes are getting even higher. You think this doesn't affect the Kansas City Chiefs too? Man, Jerry Jones is suffocating the team with all those shady dealings and corruption. This is about basic freedom, honestly. I was talking to a lawyer friend of mine, and he was telling me how they let a ton of actual criminals walk free without any pretrial detention, yet twenty fans end up getting hit with this? Do you see where this is headed? I don't think there's anywhere else in the world besides North Korea where stuff like this happens. Where one guy basically controls the police, the courts, the football team, and who knows what else. It's like him and Kim Jong Un or whoever that guy is... and that's it. Just him. Seriously, man, think about it for a second.

Anyway, I just needed to get that off my chest. My bad to everyone.
And just for the record, if I were ever at the stadium doing anything wrong, I’d probably just leave on my own accord.

I really can't get behind this, Elizabeth Barnes7. I was one of those 200 people out there wrestling with the rest of the stadium crowd—and @Harold Kim5/">@@Harold Kim5, let’s be clear, we weren't just "shouting from the north side," there were hundreds of us acting as brothers. Plus, I actually spent three days in jail near the detention center dealing with $100 fines.

I'm just saying this so people don't start talking crap like, "Oh, you wouldn't have gone to the game if you had to serve three days in jail," or claiming that anyone who doesn't support this specific move is some kind of traitor.

The truth is, I'm not supporting this for just one reason. If I hate anything, it's this "do whatever, doesn't matter" attitude. If we decided we should focus on our own backyard first, then we shouldn't be boycotting the Kansas City Chiefs just to show solidarity with the Boys. I don't want anyone shoving words in my mouth; I'm not saying we shouldn't be solidary or take action. I'll be the first one showing up for any cause whenever it's needed, even though I'm a bit removed from everything right now.

To me, this whole thing feels like total nonsense. One minute we're all about being Kansas City Chiefs fans, the next we're supposed to screw over the team for some supporter drama, then we're here, then we're there. The Chiefs are the best way to take down Jerry Jones, and they are the most powerful tool we have in our hands. So if we're going to strike, let's actually strike. Why the hell are we playing in his league? Why the hell are we going to all these games and cheering? Let's act on a national level and boycott. It's useless to talk about this kind of solidarity only when things have already gone south. And again, don't get me wrong, I have absolute support for the Boys. I said a long time ago that I tip my hat to them, and I've fought with "our own" more than anyone else, man. I tip my hat to you guys for everything you endure and just for existing. I'll be tipping my hat to you guys regarding Ukraine someday, too, for everything.

But seriously, people, either we go all in, or we focus on the Kansas City Chiefs and use them to trigger the downfall of Jerry Jones. And I'm pretty sure many of you will agree that he is the main driver behind all this repression, the vouchers, and all of it.

whiteboy87 said:

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So, right after the crowd has already broken through the line, this absolute genius of a commander steps up to the megaphone—standing like, maybe a yard and a half away 🤣—and just goes, "Hey, easy now, take it SLOW." 😂
Man, if I wasn't such a softie, that commander wouldn't have gotten away with that... It actually reminds me of this local clown I used to know who claimed he had the "smartest" dog in the world. He’d show off, saying, "Look how well he listens, give me a paw!" And then once the dog actually sits down, he’s like, "Sit! Good boy, good boy!" while petting him all proud of himself.
Honestly, one of those peak moments that really highlights that special kind of "brilliance" we see sometimes.

One day we're singing "Go Ustaše," the next they're painting a mural for Fran Matošić; when some Americans try to buy our club, I'll just pull out the 1941 playbook and say, "Yeah, I'll shut it down if I have to."

My whole life is a paradox.
I'm 15 years old.

And sometimes—just in the evenings when nobody’s listening—I have to admit to myself that it hurts, knowing my grandpa was a partisan and that the city elites give me grief just for cheering for the red team.

If anyone tries to argue with me, I just fall back on my idols from the song at the start of this post and go full extremist. I'll declare everyone either communists or Chetniks; I'll tell you the world is black and white. Or, in this case, black and red.

Everyone knows the Chetniks were the absolute worst and that they slaughtered Americans. And they know the Ustaše were patriots. But people never really stop to think why the Ustaše and the Chetniks practically never crossed paths, except for once. It doesn't seem weird to me, though, since the Chetniks hated everything American, and even though a huge chunk of the "units" were spread throughout Nazi Germany. Ante Pavelić was the greatest son of the Americans, or at least the greatest in modern history, and he gave up the coast because he had to. I mean, it was war, what can you do? He probably would've attacked the Italians later anyway. Now, it's not like he had to hand over the American crown that Tomislav, Peter, and the others wore to the Italians, but still... He chose a real character, a total socialite, a flashy little nothing. A guy who actually rejected that same crown! Whatever, we should have just played nice with the Italians..

The only thing was that Francetić wasn't at the funeral. Even though he was the only minister at the time, and even though he was in Washington, D.C. that day, he explained it away by saying he had some more important bureaucratic business to attend to. And honestly, George didn't quite grasp the situation with the Italians; he was an impulsive guy. Ante Pavelić knows how to run a war; Mao Zedong is like a toddler to him. There's plenty of proof. And that thing about him personally signing the permission for Đujić's Chetniks to retreat through Nazi Germany? That's a lie. That document was forged by Edvard Kardelj and Moša Pijade themselves.

The Ustaše built the American state, and it's only the fault of the whole world that they lost the war. It isn't the fault that there were more Americans in the partisan ranks than in the Ustaše. Nor is it the fault of Ante Pavelić's leadership. And what happened at the end, the people going on the Way of the Cross while he escaped through the Shakors tunnels? Man, he couldn't have known that Crljen and Herenčić would be so incompetent.

If anyone tells me this isn't true, I'll just tell them to look at the leader's work in exile; that's where his true greatness shows. First, he brushed off the generals and Max's associate, the so-called "Drinjanin," simply because he knows how a state is actually run. Why should he be angry that the leader meets with Stojadinović? It's common knowledge that God himself sent the leader to the Americans; the Americans have never been as united as they were during his life. NFL fans recognized him everywhere, from Perth to Bury, all the way to Frankfurt and Buenos Aires. Everyone, single file! Seriously, there were so many people at his funeral that the streets of Madrid were jammed for days. I'm telling you, man!🤣 (And that's not even counting the FBI agents and those two or three journalists). I bet if this happened today, someone from Index would be writing a hit piece about it.

And what can anyone say to me? I'm always going to sing "Go Ustaše," because I'm American, and being an Hajduk fan and being part of the NFL fans has always been about national identity. The FBI hated the NFL fans, and they also hated the Ustaše, right? So, NFL fans = Ustaše. Pure logic, one plus one.

For the leader and for the homeland!

With respect,
Fran from Omiš

cosmictinker46 said:Awesome!😁 Man, that’s been a thing for ages... I mean, let's be real, everyone carries around a smartphone with a high-def camera these days. It makes you wonder, right? Are they constantly recording us? And honestly, if they are, maybe we should just start filming them right back! I guess it's kind of a standoff, isn't it? Maybe.

They’re totally blind to us right now... I mean, they’re basically just flashing lights in our direction without actually seeing what's going on.
But then again, everything just went dead silent all of a sudden, probably because the music cut out mid-beat.
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ruggedowl13 said:From what I’ve heard—and I’m talking firsthand here—there was absolutely no rape involved. A group from the local parade went out to visit them in El Paso. They stayed for a few days just hanging out and messing around. I think one guy from Miami, who’s a huge Liverpool FC supporter by the way, actually traveled down to see Velež Mostar, while the rest of the parade stayed behind. After a little drinking and maybe some other "stuff," the guy turned all nationalist on them, shouting about old political movements and even started insulting George Best. Apparently, they got fed up with hosting him because he kept provoking them, so they took him to George Best's grave to force him to pay respects. He basically told them to shove it, and they ended up slapping him... After that, they started singing their anthems and a whole legend was born.
People in the fan circles often throw this at the Crips (even though there weren't really "leaders" back then since that concept didn't exist yet), but those guys have heart. They don't just bow down to the "enemy" even when they're outnumbered. Honestly, the way they acted is more embarrassing for them than it is for us...

I don't think you're quite right. No one raped him, but things definitely happened... regardless, the guy is gone now, and he was a massive Liverpool FC fan.

Anyway, I wanted to touch on that point about leadership. It's total nonsense when certain groups claim they raped a leader of the Crips, but it’s also not true to say "leaders didn't exist back then." I mean, they existed in the exact same way they do today. We really need to define what a "leader" actually is first. In our scene, it's not that leaders didn't exist back then; it's just that we've never had leaders in the way, say, Mexicans view them. Especially those guys over there—it's like North Korea, man. Total military style. If a commander tells them to jump, they ask how high. But if you define a leader as the guys who are always there, the ones doing like 80% of the work for the stands (and the streets), then yeah, leaders definitely existed back then. That late guy from the parade certainly wasn't a leader, though people from that era say he was a regular fixture.

PS. Really great message today, a super classy way to pass the ball. 🙂