I love Max the Hab. I am really really not comfortable looking at his personal life, at all. I just don't care also, as long he's happy and healthy and scoring goals.
Guess what? I don't want anyone looking at my personal life also.
In the Seventies we knew NOTHING about Habs off the Forum Ice, and you know what? We liked it that way. But then Montreal had class then.
We used to see Jacques Lemaire at our local Italian resto all the time, and nobody, I mean nobody, talked to him. Ever. Including children. Not one autograph in that resto in 3 years. We left him alone, he left us alone, and then we loved him at the Forum. That is the way.
Further: I find anyone over 8 years old asking for an autograph, anywhere, including the Bell, incredibly cringing. Creeeeeepy!
I don't really like this whole thread, I don't think we should be doing this.
I don't want to know about Max's personal life. I have zero interest, and I find it creepy that anybody does.
Very creepy. And I bet big time the players don't like this sort of attention, and I think it affects the way they live here, watched, all the time. Approached by adult strangers, in public, people who do not even know them. EWWWW. Gross. Sorry, but true. Think about that the next time you hang around the Bell garage and talk to players that you are not friends with, and have no business relationship with.
Would you talk to people you did not know on the street this way? It's creepy, and gross. End of.
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Originally Posted by bsl
Wrong. You are so wrong. He is not a 'public figure'. He is famous. There is a difference, and you and many others in Montreal and elsewhere these days don't get it.
Max is not Steven Harper, who is a public figure, and must face questions from a public that pays taxes to his hopefully responsible government.
You have no right to bother Max in any way in public, any more than you have the right to bother me. He is a player on the PRIVATE Le Club de Hockey Canadien. Nothing gives any of us the right to approach Max in public and say "Hey Max buuddy!" EWWW. Sorry. It's gross if you're over 8 years old.
He plays for Le Club de Hockey Canadien, and that club existed before fans existed. It's a hockey club. And guess what, the players would still play without us, for 100 bucks a year. That's what they do, just as I design buildings, and you work for a bank, or whatever. Your life and my life is private, and Max's life should be too.
Respect boundaries. Everybody just simply forgot this around 1995 I think. Facebook I bet. Nasty little thing. Horrible and intrusive.
Max plays hockey, that's all, and he should not be bothered by creepy adults and media re his personal life, ever. He is not a public figure. he is famous. Learn the difference.
Mediocre fame seeking actors and singers love public intrusion, because they were not born to act or sing. They entered into this activity because they desire fame and attention. I think that these are the Nulles you meant in your post, as 'public' figures. They have no talent, and deserve intrusion because of it. They are liars.
Good actors and singers do not give a sh-it for attention, because acting and singing is what they do. And nor do NHL hockey players, because no one can be a fake in the NHL.
This is why I find discussion of players off the Ice creepy, and I stand by this opinion and feeling.
I hate to break it to you but things have changed, stop living in the past. Today's athletes have grown up in a world where it's okay to ask for autographs ,regardless of your age. They think it's normal and most of them deal with this in a very civilized manner.
I love Max the Hab. I am really really not comfortable looking at his personal life, at all. I just don't care also, as long he's happy and healthy and scoring goals.
Guess what? I don't want anyone looking at my personal life also.
In the Seventies we knew NOTHING about Habs off the Forum Ice, and you know what? We liked it that way. But then Montreal had class then.
We used to see Jacques Lemaire at our local Italian resto all the time, and nobody, I mean nobody, talked to him. Ever. Including children. Not one autograph in that resto in 3 years. We left him alone, he left us alone, and then we loved him at the Forum. That is the way.
Further: I find anyone over 8 years old asking for an autograph, anywhere, including the Bell, incredibly cringing. Creeeeeepy!
I don't really like this whole thread, I don't think we should be doing this.
I don't want to know about Max's personal life. I have zero interest, and I find it creepy that anybody does.
Very creepy. And I bet big time the players don't like this sort of attention, and I think it affects the way they live here, watched, all the time. Approached by adult strangers, in public, people who do not even know them. EWWWW. Gross. Sorry, but true. Think about that the next time you hang around the Bell garage and talk to players that you are not friends with, and have no business relationship with.
Would you talk to people you did not know on the street this way? It's creepy, and gross. End of.
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What are you going on about man? Things were different in the seventies, not just the attention hockey players got. Everything.
Your entire post confuses me a great deal. Suddenly asking a player on your favourite team for an autograph is weird?
When I was 13 I went to an old timers game and got Guy Lafleurs autograph, did he wash his hands afterwards because he was so creeped out by the situation?
And you can split hairs all you want, but they ARE public figures. When you're getting paid huge money to play a game there are certain liberties you have to "give up"
