The Bears have plenty of problems at the moment, as evidenced by their third straight home loss yesterday, this one to the Dolphins.
That loss made for a heated locker room, with wide receiver Brandon Marshall calling out the entire roster.
But Bears guard Kyle Long decided to take out his frustrations on a group of people who had nothing to do with the result, after getting booed as they came off the field at halftime trailing 14-0.
“I don’t know if upset is the word I would use,” Long said, via Jeff Dickerson of ESPNChicago.com. “As somebody that is blood, sweat and tears in this locker room like the other guys, the coaches, the trainers, the staff and the equipment guys, to be getting booed at home when you’re walking off the field down two possessions is unacceptable -- especially when there is not a lot of noise being made on third down [when Miami had the ball], period.”
As Geno Smith could tell you, taking out your frustrations on the paying customers is rarely the best idea.
Long seemed to realize that a moment late, and took to Twitter afterward to try to clarify.
“Wasn’t just running around blaming the fans,” he wrote. “I was asked about it and I said what I said. I wish we were making great plays all the time too”
At least Bears tight end Martellus Bennett had a better perspective on it.
“If I go see a bad movie, I boo,” Bennett said. “It’s an entertainment business. We are all entertainers. If you go to a bad show, most people boo. I think they had the right to do that. If I want to boo at fans, I can boo at fans, or whoever it may be. They pay for their tickets, and the show wasn’t up to their liking.
“If I go to a movie, I walk out if I don’t like the movie. Like Transformers 3 -- it was terrible. I didn’t stay for the whole film and walked out.”
As another Chicago icon, Roger Ebert might have said, the Bears deserved the thumbs down last night — if not the fingers up.