Main League Soccer has a message for its followers: transgender delight flags are okay, however MAGA hats are evil.
St. Louis Metropolis FC booted Michael Weitzel from a current recreation as a result of he refused to take away a “Make America Nice Once more” ballcap from his head.
A video of the incident, which you’ll be able to watch beneath, exhibits Weitzel being surrounded by stadium safety and given the heave ho.
“I didn’t suppose there’d be any situation with sporting that to the sport, however with about 25 minutes left within the recreation, I used to be principally instructed they’d acquired a grievance about my hat,” the season ticket holder instructed my good pal Marc Cox, host of “The Marc Cox Morning Present” on radio station KFTK.
“They instructed me I might both cover the hat or take it out to my automotive or go away. I’m not gonna take my hat off for anyone. I dwell in America, which is the land of the free and the house of the courageous, I assumed. So that you do what you must do.”
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Weitzel was instructed the hat violated a stadium coverage in opposition to displaying political messages. It’s not clear why the phrase “Make America Nice Once more” is taken into account political.
However because the diehard fan pointed on the market had been loads of banners and flags sporting political messages contained in the stadium.
“I’m being requested to depart by police. I’m being threatened with arrest. They’re asking me to depart,” Weitzel mentioned on the video.
“I’m being evicted from the premises due to Donald Trump — as a result of we will’t put on Donald Trump hats in public. Now I’m being evicted from the premises. Trump is just not welcome at St. Louis Metropolis SC membership. Trump is just not welcome right here.”
Main League Soccer has but to reply to the controversy – leaving many followers disgusted with how they handled the MAGA fan.
“What occurred to preserving politics of our sports activities? The identical folks [expletive] about this are those who had been mad at Kaepernick for kneeling. However know you’re mad these sports activities leagues have put in guidelines for this? Bunch of hypocrites,” one particular person wrote on X.
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My good pal David Limbaugh additionally chimed in noting that Weitzel is a nephew of a faculty fraternity brother.
“Happy with this household for standing up,” Limbaugh wrote on X.
“So in St. Louis this yr, there have been 66 murders, 67 kidnapping, 28 rapes, and 1,335 aggravated assaults. However there have been 4 safety personnel right here to forcibly evict a peaceable soccer fan sporting a MAGA hat,” one other particular person mentioned. “Is the message that you don’t want us within the metropolis of St. Louis?”
But one more reason to dislike soccer.
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