joetoronto says:
Aug 31, 2011 1:29 PM
Fantasy football is for girls and sissy’s.

Let me guess..you tried it once, got your a$$ kicked and finished in last place?
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Never tried it, never will.

Now go watch Star Trek, sissy.

Thank you for your long winded explanation of society in general. With all of your credentials as a psychologist, I can’t believe you have the time to spare on a football message board.

Look, people can separate fantasy football and real life. The reality is people don’t care about athletes like they used to. Athletes are worse now than ever before and their sense of entitlement is why they are looked at for their stats only.

EVERY SINGLE NFL PLAYER is in the top 1.5% of earnings per year for the USA. Please forgive the “vile” people for not being sensitive enough to these d-bags that can hardly spell their own names.

He claims that he doesn’t take himself too seriously. Really? Man, hardly anybody wants to see players get hurt. What does he want me to do? Send him my best wishes/regards? I don’t even know this guy!!!

I was gonna give him a pass on the tweet but then he doubled down on it! If I spent more than 10 seconds “worrying” about his hamstring then my head would explode. Just play football and good luck. Geeesh.

It’s weird to me, too. And the reaction to his comment reinforces the truth of it.

We aren’t all a-holes. I just wanted you to know that.

I hope you’re back to full strength soon.

-Brad

P.S. You are not on my fantasy team, nor am I a Texans fan. I just think you deserve better than what you’re getting from your “fans”.

Now, will I take into consideration Foster’s hamstring issue when it comes to drafting or setting up my lineup? Sure I will, as it’s rational to use all available data when making decisions. The difference is, my first thought on hearing about his hamstring issue wasn’t “gee, how will that alter my upcoming draft”, it was “man, I hope the guy gets better soon. He’s a great player that’s worked his way up from being an undrafted rookie, and I want to see him do well”. Ok, those exact words don’t run through my mind, but the same feeling is there.

As for the comments and responses that Foster actually received from people, having seen some rather horrid comments retweeted and some of the comments posted on sports boards (including this one), I have no difficulty believing that many were just plain vile. I’ve seen people wish career ending injuries on players for doing nothing more than ask for a pay raise or question the front office, I’ve seen people wish that DeSean Jackson would be permanently paralyzed because they thinks he’s too much of a showboat, and I’ve seen countless other comments every bit as bad if not worse. All of them made for reasons that don’t impact the life of the commenter in any way at all. I shudder to think what some of these people would say if a player’s actions or words affected a fantasy team they actually put their own name to.

At the end of the day, we all need to remember that both real football and fantasy football are just games. Yes, they’ve become big business because of the millions of people who enjoy watching and/or participating in them, but games nonetheless. Neither is worth a single human life nor a permanently disabling injury. Players do risk such injuries though because our love for the game has made the payoff so huge, and because they too love the game. They take those risks knowing they exist. That does not mean, however, that it’s ever ok to cheer for an injury or wish for one to happen. The risk of injury is simply a fact of life for players. The enjoyment that some fans seem to get from players not on their team being injured is just a sad statement about the pathetic nature of those particular “fans” lives.

Who’s gonna get Foster’s carries now that he’s hurt?

B. Tate…or D. Ward?

(I am kidding…get well soon A. Foster)

It’s not like Foster is laying in a hospital bed and his life is in jeopardy. He just hurt his hamstring. I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think a hamstring injury is life threatening or even life altering. Calling people sick because they don’t sincerely care about your hamstring injury just seems a little petty.

I don’t sincerely care because 1. I don’t know you personally and 2. Because it’s just a hamstring injury; you’ll be fine. If an immediate family member had just been shot, then I would probably sincerely care. But not over something as small as a hamstring injury.

That all may have just a little of why our Nation is going down the Toilet as well. My kids have me play Fantasy Football each year but I would rather be out in the real World with the Horses. The game is really silly if you think about it.

My Father once told me that only a few had made our Nation Great and that most are slow and do nothing but ride off those others backs. When I look around today at all the Fools out there I see what he was talking about.

Guess what Arian? FF makes people outside a particular market care about players on other teams

Do you really “care about” those players? If one of those players you “care about” gets hurt, do you send them a get-well message, thanking them for all they’ve done in the past? If they get into a funk and their production goes down, do you remind them that it’s only a game, and they’ll get it turned around eventually? Now that you “care about” a player, will you think twice about discarding them in a second if they start hurting “your” “team”?

What about the players playing against the players you “care about”? Do they become less important, maybe even obstacles, maybe even a bunch of people you hope fail in their professions, putting their careers at risk?

“Care about”. Sheesh. I’m sure all the people betting on dog races think they’re dog lovers, too.

Big wave-off. Fantasy football sucks.

If you are disappointed that a football player did something in the best interest of his team winning the game because it hurt your fantasy team, you’re not a football fan.

If you’re the seemingly rare type of person who can have fun with the minutia of fantasy football while still watching the game on its own terms, enjoying what’s actually happening in the contest of two teams and not caring what numbers are being racked up, then you have my respect for that.

I suspect the latter group is made up of very few people, proportionately. Which is a big part of my general disdain for fantasy football.

You fall off something at work and drop 15 feet and injure yourself, and get taken to the hospital. Your boss shows up at the hospital to see how you are doing, but he says it like this…”How are you feeling? Will you miss much work? I get a bonus if we beat the deadline, so if you’re going to miss a lot of time, I need to replace you soon.”

Now what is your reaction going to be?

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She plays with me every weekend…

Let me guess..you tried it once, got your a$$ kicked and finished in last place?

How does how is that polar opposite from a Houston Texans fan who want him to be healthy to help the Texans win?

I agree that NFL > fantasy…. but how is wanting him to succeed and exceed expectations at his chosen profession “sick”?

Maybe I am not as thoughtful and incisive as he is…