Pro skateboarder Mike V still upset with Ducks
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Remember the highly-publicized fight that broke out at the Honda Center in November when Scott Niedermayer tried to give his hockey stick to a girl on the other side of the glass? (Here’s the video in case you didn’t see it.)
Well, professional skateboarder Mike V (whose real name is Mike Vallely) is still fuming over the incident and is upset that the Ducks and the Honda Center have continued to cut promotional ties with him.
In a statement posted on his personal website, Mike V said ‘the Ducks, the Honda Center and the NHL threw my family and I under the bus to try to save face.’ He claims he did not start the fight and that he only got involved when a man and a woman took the stick that was intended for his daughter. He also writes that he was the only one to be arrested and cited.
After the fight, a blog that Mike V wrote for the Ducks was pulled from the team’s website.
Here are some of Mike V’s reasons for fighting over the stick: ‘I was not a ‘celebrity fan.’ I was simply a man, a father sticking up for his family and doing the right thing in a world and a society that unfortunately has got it all wrong.’
Wow. Mike V should go into theater once his skateboarding career is over.
The bottom line is he got into a fight at a hockey game -- something the NHL and its teams are only supporting when it’s on the ice. And while Niedermayer definitely intended for the stick to go to Mike V’s daughter, the Ducks can’t have a relationship with a guy who takes part in fights at their games.
Rather than becoming a self-proclaimed fighter for social justice, Mike V should have let the stupid fans next to him have the stick. He then should have asked the Ducks to give him another Niedermayer stick (and I’m sure they would have given it to him).
However, I’m not sure if the Ducks should be barring him from games. Why can’t they let him back in with a warning? Hockey needs all the fans it can get around here.
But, if you feel Mike V was completely right in his reasons for fighting, feel free to sign his online petition.
-- Austin Knoblauch
