I'm Begging Knicks Fans To NOT Hold Up Pictures Of Birds In Front Of Trae Young At MSG Tonight And Instead Follow This Advice

I've seen a lot of this over the last couple of days. People talking about how Knicks fans need to hold up pictures of birds to try and intimidate Trae Young. Weird, I know, but Trae Young has an unhealthy fear of birds (h/t Oklahoman).

Young has ornithophobia — an abnormal or irrational a fear of birds.

“The man can do everything but be face-to-face with a bird,” teammate Rashard Odomes said.

Young has had the condition for awhile, even being scared as a child of animated birds. 

“I just think it was movies when I was a kid,” Young said. “I never really liked animated movies where the bird would be the scary thing. I would never like that.”

Then about two years ago at Norman North, Young was walking near a fellow student just outside the school as he was heading to lunch.

“She scared a bird and the bird just flew at her and like attacked her,” Young said.

The friend was scraped up, suffering no major injuries. But Young's fear intensified.

People tried holding up pictures of birds in college. It doesn't work. We're talking playoffs here. We're talking the Knicks needing to win this game. Fuck all of that. A bird that flew around and attacked a friend? Play this on fucking loop on the big screen. 

It's 2021, there are no rules on not being able to photoshop Trae Young's face on Harry here. If you're scared of birds and you're in New York, how the fuck do you not use Pigeon Lady here? She's terrifying. 

Way more scary than old man Marley from the original Home Alone. Someone needs to get her in full costume sitting wherever in the front row. Have her rotate from behind the bench, behind the basket, midcourt. Keep Trae Young on his fucking toes like Elfrid Payton does to us whenever he's on the floor. If we can't get her on short notice, then the entire crowd needs to dress up like her. No more jerseys or Knicks shirts (unless they are Barstool related). 

So let's get to work here. It's a must-win game at MSG and also a can't lose game. No pictures of birds. That's not good enough. Trae even called us out. 

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He's right that I can't get on the floor and defend him because I'd be arrested if I did that. I'd absolutely be able to force him left unlike Frankie Smokes at the end of game 1. But that's not here or there. This is about doing what we can. This game is in our hands now. Don't wanna dress up like Pigeon Lady, then buy one of these shirts.