Comments on: Brandon Lloyd’s lockout life: A rapper and aerospace metals salesman

By: bigbeefyd

bigbeefyd — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 14:48:49 +0000

@myballsmyrules…as has been mentioned, you read it completely wrong. He was trying to make the point (which everyone else understood) that he, as a football player, is NOT important when compared to things that are happening in the real world. But, it’s obvious from your posts that you exist just to find something negative to say in almost every situation. So when something positive shows up here, your angry little pea brain makes it into something negative. How sad.

By: titsburgfeelers

titsburgfeelers — Thu, 09 Jun 2011 01:13:08 +0000

Its not that Brandon thinks he’s better than those blue collar workers its that your an IDIOT to think so. Or is that the Broncos actually have players that are intelligent and can play ball. Wich one are yoU really mad at? Poor baby its just not fair!!

By: granadafan

granadafan — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:47:37 +0000

Sometimes it takes an extraordinary situation for people to grow up and show their maturity. Guys like Brandon Lloyd have realized that football can be taken away just like that and they’d be left in a lurch. He was quite brash without accomplishing anything while in SF, but now he seems to get it. Others like TO have never matured and continue make fools of themselves.

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:31:11 +0000

Rap just lucky Dr. Kevorkian isn’t around anymore. He would be stalking it with a long needle in his hand.

By: willycents

willycents — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:29:41 +0000

tundey says:

Most of us get a “brain transplant”" sometime in our twenties, just ask our parents. And, if we are parents, ask us about our kids.

By: tundey

tundey — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 22:26:38 +0000

Ok, when did the brain transplant take place? He sure wasn’t this aware when he was with the Redskins.

By: bigshadetree

bigshadetree — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:43:01 +0000

Isn’t everyone a rapper? Hell I’m a rapper then, If u wanna impress me, tell me ur a professional beatboxer, now that’s a lost art…

By: bearsrulepackdrool

bearsrulepackdrool — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:31:35 +0000

@hobartbaker

Not sure what ur smoking but rap music has been getting bigger and bigger over the years.

Went from underground to just about any and every event, commercial, movie, radio station and tv show out there nowadays.

Just cuz you want it to die doesn’t mean its going to. In fact its going more and more mainstream and hip-hop in its rawest form is dying.

By: acanniv

acanniv — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:13:08 +0000

@pestilence

Totally agree. Last season, he did a weekly spot on one of the local radio shows and he was very, very good. Well spoken, not afraid to comment/speak his mind on touch subjects (labor situation, josh mcdaniels, etc). Made me think he definitely has a future in broadcasting.

By: rraider

rraider — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 21:07:54 +0000

I am glad to see that B. Lloyd
has matured and is doing well but cant give him a complete pass on his immaturity after leaving the niners and going to Washington.

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:59:23 +0000

Someone need to tell Brandon they are pretty much shutting down the aerospace industry and rap music been living in an extended care facility for the past five years, waiting to die.

By: azwildcats96

azwildcats96 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:54:14 +0000

Thank God for B. Lloyd the exact OPPOSITE of B. Marshall. I guess McDaniels got ONE thing right in his time with Denver.

By: biggerballz

biggerballz — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:49:41 +0000

this guy would be successful in life no matter what, he has what jamarcus russell never had, the drive.

By: stealthjunk

stealthjunk — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:47:01 +0000

@myballsmyrules: Reading comprehension fail. Maybe you’re the one that needs to go back to school, not Lloyd.

By: bearsrulepackdrool

bearsrulepackdrool — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:30:31 +0000

I heard he also did some acting on a film called, “The Removed.”

By: pkrlvr

pkrlvr — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:30:21 +0000

Apparently Mr. Lloyd is more intelligent than some of the posters here…..

By: myballsmyrules

myballsmyrules — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:30:11 +0000

My Bad!

By: hobartbaker

hobartbaker — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:28:04 +0000

LOL, Lloyd.

Working on his rap tunes and in his spare time lending support to the Al Gore campaign in his effort to defeat George Bush.

By: sdboltaction

sdboltaction — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:19:22 +0000

@myballsinmymouth

You’re taking that quote out of context.

By: SpartaChris

SpartaChris — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:11:51 +0000

myballsmyrules says:
Jun 8, 2011 2:43 PM
“it puts in perspective how important I am, Brandon Lloyd the football player, in the real world.”

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So football players live in the real world, but those factory workers don’t?

And because he is a football player, he deems himself as “important”

This is why I can not only stand the attitudes of pro athletes, but I can’t stand those that “admire” and “worship” these people. Those that do that degrade themselves, cause LLoyd just degraded all those factory workers
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You’re taking it completely out of context. If you RTFA, you’ll see his previous quote, “It has been really rewarding, because football is like fantasy land. It’s not like really working.” Then he goes on to say, “It puts in perspective how important I am, Brandon Lloyd the football player, in the real world,” meaning being a football player is nowhere near as meaningful as doing what his colleagues do.

By: hanktheking

hanktheking — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:11:46 +0000

I think some of you may not understand what he is saying. He’s admitting that as a football player he is actually irrellevant in the big scheme of things and has been more humbled by ppl who actually work hard for a living.

I also want to shout out Brandon for being the best in the league at catching the ball. The dude is a freak when it comes to twisting his body. It’s nice to see a humble WR named “Brandon” who actually catches the ball instead of one who is a Egomaniacal clown and leads the league in drops.

By: dbellina

dbellina — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:45:17 +0000

OK let me get this straight. He was the number one WR last year, he has a rap song that’s actually successful, and now he’s going back to school to become an aerospace metal salesman? Oh, and he realizes that what he does in the NFL isn’t actually “real” work.

This article just made me depressed about what I have accomplished in my life!

By: myballsmyrules

myballsmyrules — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:43:48 +0000

“it puts in perspective how important I am, Brandon Lloyd the football player, in the real world.”

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So football players live in the real world, but those factory workers don’t?

And because he is a football player, he deems himself as “important”

By: myballsmyrules

myballsmyrules — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:40:24 +0000

Am I missing something?????

You people are admiring someone that said basically “after seeing people work in factories it makes me appreciate how important I am”

Really?
So Lloyd thinks he is more important than any of those workers?
He thinks he is more imporetant that any of you?

And you people think he “is growing up”?

This is exactly why football players feel entitled to whatever, and think they are above rules and laws.

By: pestilence1972

pestilence1972 — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:38:34 +0000

I heard an interview with him last year at the height of his magical season. He was maybe the most well spoken NFL player I have heard in a long time. He could sit next to Steve Young and Peyton Manning and not look dumb in the least. I am a fan.

By: pftrumors

pftrumors — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:25:31 +0000

Interesting occupation.

By: capslockkey

capslockkey — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:22:03 +0000

“It has been really rewarding, because football is like fantasy land. It’s not like really working,”

OK, even though I hate the Broncos, I’ve just become a Brandon Lloyd fan. At least this guy gets it.

By: hanktheking

hanktheking — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:20:35 +0000

Brandon Lloyd is a class act who does it the right way and has been rewarded with success for the Broncos. Good for him.

By: killxswitch

killxswitch — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:19:07 +0000

Weird. But I like Brandon Lloyd a little more now. Nice to see a humble guy (and a WR, no less) talk about how ultimately unimportant he is, and how lucky he is to play football for a living.

By: touchdownroddywhite

touchdownroddywhite — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:18:30 +0000

I like that guy just on the last statement alone: “it puts in perspective how important I am, Brandon Lloyd the football player, in the real world”. Too bad more “stars” don’t feel the same way.