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Like Howard Beale (right), the half-crazed, world-weary news anchor played by Peter Finch in "Network," some Knicks people just couldn't take it anymore. And they decided to follow that desperate man's famous dictum:

"I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. ... Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. ... All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, Goddamnit! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!'"

And now, you have the chance to honor those courageous few who have taken their protests to a new level. The New York Daily News is offering the chance to vote for Anucha Browne Sanders or the fan duo of Ed Barnes and Jason Silverstein as New York's sportsperson of the year.

Anucha, of course, sued Isiah and Dolan's asses for being a bunch of junior-high pervs. Barnes was the one who threw his jersey on the floor in disgust, while Silverstein held up a sign that said "Fire Isiah" and got booted from the Garden. I wonder how Garden security would handle the fans at big-time college football games. They'd probably have to kick everybody out eventually.