Why would I care about sports riots? These Ferguson rioters are burning down the town over a criminal being killed in a confrontation with an officer. They are f'ing idiots.
So you don't care when rioters burn and destroy sh#t because their sports team WON (which should be cause for celebration, not destruction), you don't get upset or call them idiots.
But when a kid, who had not committed a crime, and was not being pursued in response to alleged crime (which he did not commit), gets killed, and people see it as another in a long line of A) examples of oppression against their race and B) examples of police brutality that goes unpunished by the justice system, then you think the rioters are idiotic?