"The man who threw a banana peel on the ice as Flyers forward Wayne Simmonds was starting a shootout attempt against the Red Wings last week did not mean to make a racist statement and is "mortified" at how he is being perceived, according to his lawyer. Chris Moorhouse, of London, Ontario, was only hoping to prevent a goal, lawyer Faisal Joseph explained. "He was horrified when he saw the implications a day later as to how it had come out, and he said to me, 'If I had an apple or an orange, I would have thrown that out onto the ice. I did not realize the significance,' " Joseph said. "This is a young guy who's guilty, if anything, of an act of stupidity (WEEI)."
It's almost impossible to know this person's intent, but I think we are missing the bigger issue in this whole story. Who the hell heads to an NHL with a banana? Did he wants some fruit with his beer? Did he really have the foresight to be like "Yes, I am going to take this banana and those it at that black guy on the Flyers"?. If that's the case how fucking pumped was this guy when Simmonds came up for a penalty shot? Like that doesn't happen all the time, so it must have been like racist Christmas for this guy.
