i don’t know about you but i think that man was on something.

i call hockey “soccer baseball basketball football track tennis golf billiards darts are many of the sports that if you’re too slow and fat to play you play this sport instead”

actually i was just making fun of the original poster who make a joke assuming that no civil war action took place here (and that only 800 people lived here then). obviously we shouldn’t have a monument down here, or anywhere, but he took an ignorant crack at us so whatever.

well obviously they need to raze the monument. i was just calling out the original idiot who didn’t realize that the civil war was fought in florida.

hey dumbass, this is going to blow your mind, but our forefathers are all from the midwest. like, ohio and michigan and all.

you obviously didn’t read the whole thing, but 16 american soldiers died in tampa in the civil war. dumbass was sarcastically saying that there was no civil war action in tampa, which is simply ignorant (and insane, really, given how important these waters had already become).

you obviously didn’t read the whole article, genius

all 16 americans matter

jesus fucking christ.

that’s a classic. you know what i’d like to know?

i’ll make sure to tell the families of the civil war soldiers who died in Tampa that some internet commenter said no one died

keep reading down, shakespeare

hey i don’t write the wikipedia articles, i just use them to remind myself how awful the deadspin commentariat has become

do you know how hard you have to not look at this article to see that another battle was fought months later where people died.

that’s a good point, you shouldn’t call something a battle unless it was the biggest battle

Don’t they know Tampa, Florida had a RICH Civil War history! It was home to Many Battles! Like...um....

there was an actual Civil War battle in Tampa you ignorant dumbass

nobody ever went downtown when I was there

commenter, I served with Raysism. I knew Raysism. Raysism was a friend of mine.

you realize Jesus came from a conquered civilization, right