ehBeth wrote:Pride. Interesting choice of words, O'Bill, given Soz's earlier analogy!

All right, let's address this. :wink:
When I attended the first shareholder meeting, after the last stock offering, a related thing came up. There were 18,707 of my closest friends in attendance at the meeting, at Lambeau Field and they had set up microphones for the shareholders to ask questions of management.
Okay, so this guy steps up to the mike when his turn comes up and says; "Uh, I came here from Detroit

" interrupted by a volley of booooooooos "just wait it gets worse
I'm originally from Chicago

" interrupted by another volley boooooooooos "I'm here with my same sex partner

" you could hear a pin drop "and I just want to hear someone from management say that they don't agree with all that stuff Reggie White's been saying". (For those who don't know: Reggie White was our superb defensive end, who is also an ordained minister. Well, the ?'Minister of Defense' had been spending a lot of breath saying gay people were sick in the head and needed help, at around that same time.)
Bob Harlan (team president) steps up to the mike and says "I'll take this question
" he looks back and forth at the faces of the stunned fans a couple of times and says "Next question please". I know its mean, and I'm not prejudice against gays, but I laughed my ass off. I think we lost a couple of fans that day. Perhaps, on further thought, that's where some of this anti-cheese-head sentiment is coming from.