anxiousTo anyone who doesn't know that's what's going on, it sounds like they're booing, and it probably takes little more to assume that they're booing him because his name is Muhammad. I certainly saw that popping up on blogs yesterday. Not having followed Da Bears that much, I wasn't aware of it either, but I figured that must have been what was happening, as I did not think the fans could be that crass and stupid. But I suspect that the worldwide audience expects American to be that crass and stupid. Cheryl says the announcers on her coverage didn't explain what was happening. I doubt many others were either.
Sigh. Americans cannot necessarily be proud of themselves for many of their actions, but this was not a racist act by Stupid American Football Fans.
Ironically, according to his Wikipedia entry (which can't necessarily be considered authoritative), he's apparently a Christian.
