How could a high school football coach think anti-Semitic play calls were appropriate?

[KG]

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/high-school-coach-fired-for-holocaust-audible-play-calls-massachusetts-202055552.html

Shalise Manza Young·Yahoo Sports Columnist


There are hundreds of thousands of words in Merriam-Webster's hardcover dictionary, plus an infinite number of expressions like team names and admired athletes that aren't in the massive book.

Yet, with so many options at his disposal, the head football coach at Duxbury High in Massachusetts reportedly went with "Auschwitz," "Hitler" and "Holocaust" for some of his audible calls.

Auschwitz, as in the Nazi concentration and extermination camp where at least 1.1 million Jewish people were mercilessly killed during World War II. Hitler, as in the man who ordered the construction of death camps like Auschwitz. Holocaust, as in one of the worst atrocities in human history.

Of all the words available to him, these are ones that Dave Maimaron had his Duxbury players use.

[ck4829]

1. That must have been quite the sugar spike.

[Rustyeye77]

2. You have got to be f**king kidding

nt

[Solly Mack]

3. Some people are fucking sick. Just plain sick.

[bucolic_frolic]

4. He didn't realize this as inappropriate?

What is he saying? "We are the Nazi's!"????

[speak easy]

5. We are the Nazis now,

get with the pogram

[bucolic_frolic]

8. There it is! You solved it. /nt

[Roisin Ni Fiachra]

6. Just another average 'murican supporter of the fascist orange menace, most likely.

Wonder if he had a play called the "Final Solution'.

[4Q2u2]

7. Because he is an A-hole

The whole coaching staff and team are a bunch of spoiled rotten Rich A-holes.
That teaching job was a phony baloney job to pay him a full salary to coach football.
My Son was on the opposing team. We know that team very well. My older boy played against them for 4 years also.
They have no problem reminding other teams after the game that they are rich and you are not.

[MineralMan]

9. Think? He thought it was funny, I suppose.

Fire his anti-Semitic ass forthwith!

[jcgoldie]

10. Tommy Tuberville coached football...

...seems you don't have to be a genius... or any smarter than a pea brained chicken...

[RVN VET71]

11. The "audibles" were anti-semitic, of course, without any doubt or question but

they were also explicitly pro-Nazi. Pro-Hitler. Pro-fascist. Please don’t cry about your multi-racial family and your pretended “openness”. You may not be a Nazi, yourself. But your audibles certainly suggest a close and comfortable affinity.

And by being suggestively pro-Nazi, you call your own patriotism into question. What the hell comes next? Hitler mustaches and goose-stepping off the field?

[area51]

12. WTH?