This kinda stupidity should really unite the far left and the far right. While liberals freaked out over Christians giving money to support a pizzeria targeted by the gay mafia, I’m pretty sure we can all agree that a BILLION dollar team owned by a multi-billionaire really doesn’t need help paying a paltry million dollar fine.
But for these very “special” New England Patriots’ fans, this is how they want to spend their money:
Now, I know not all Patriots fans are this stupid, so this isn’t really a dig at them. It’s a dig at the idiots who would give their money to “help” the Patriots pay their fine. Let’s do the math real quick, oh wait, let’s make Twitter do the math for us:
Robert Kraft's net worth is $4.3 billion. The Patriots were fined $1 million, or .0002% of Kraft's worth. Still think this needs a GoFundMe?
— Erik Frenz (@ErikFrenz) May 13, 2015
So, let’s say you’re a regular person and your net worth is $100,000. The same ratio of a fine would be $23 to you. I mean, really guys? Really?
https://twitter.com/Chuck_Meade/status/598590385334681600
Only Patriots fans would start a fundraiser to help the billion dollar sports franchise pay its fine
— Madi Sauter⚡ (@Finnesotan91) May 12, 2015
https://twitter.com/ESPNHockeyNight/status/598233389045555200
A fool and his money are soon parted: Patriots fans to raise money to offset billion dollar football club's fine: http://t.co/22rSi420ke
— Tim Mak (@timkmak) May 12, 2015
Patriots fans start Kickstarter for $2.6 billion team's $1 million fine. No word on how many short buses it takes to get them to games.
— Duris Holmes (@duris) May 12, 2015
THE PATRIOTS ARE WORTH 2.6 BILLION DOLLARS. THERE ARE PEOPLE STARVING ALL OVER OUR PLANET
— josh (@JotsOne) May 12, 2015
Please stop donating to that absurd go fund me. They Patriots are a billion dollar organization. They know we have their back.
— C o l b y (@c_l_c_892) May 12, 2015
Bob Kraft bought the Patriots for $175M.
They're now valued at $1.5 billion.
So you tell me if a $1 million fine actually makes an impact.
— Justin Karp (@jskarp) May 11, 2015
Far be it from me to tell anyone how to spend their money. But don’t be complete idiots about it, guys!
At the time of this post being published, the idiot fans had raised over $14,000 for a multi-billionaire in support of their billion-dollar team.