http://www.chicagofootball.com/2014/10/ ... hg/?page=1I guess this is the relevant part:
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Let’s be absolutely clear: This is not just about Lamarr Houston. Less than 24 hours after Houston recommended a new lunch menu for Bears fans, safety George Ioka of the Bengals told fans after their beloved got royally spanked in New England, “Let them jump off (the bandwagon), I'm not worried about the people who jump off. We don't want them as fans anyway.”
Bengals offensive tackle Andrew Whitworth went a step further, saying, “That stuff's just garbage, I'm not worried about the fans or the media or any of that crap.”
Are these guys really that dumb, or just that spoiled?
The only reason Houston, Ioka, Whitworth and most of the players in the NFL are making so much money for playing a game that they’ll probably never have to work a day in their lives is, they’ve been lucky. They won the gene pool.
It makes me crazy when I hear about how hard these guys work. I’m sorry, but exercising (call it working out if you prefer) four, five or six hours a day around four, five or six times a week, then practicing a game a couple hours a day a few days a week and then watching video tape of your games just isn’t that hard.
Fans owe players absolutely nothing. That is not a hard reality to grasp or understand.
I do have a simple answer for a large chunk of this player ignorance. Just make a rule that NFL players can’t use their Twitter accounts in season.
Show me one positive that has ever come from a player tweeting or responding to tweets during the season?
Houston has apparently acknowledged his mistake since letting his thumbs take off without engaging his brain. But is he just sorry for the social media firestorm he set off? Will he avoid the temptation to vent on Twitter next time?
Does he actually get that Bears fans owe him nothing while he owes them everything?
How many of you out there would like to join me in showing these kids what hard work really is?
These young people have an incredible God-given gift: their size, strength, speed and athleticism. It’s not something you can buy or go out and find, it’s given to them. Playing with that gift is a blessing, not the back-breaking work players make it out to be.
Showing your gratitude for that gift by dumping on the real hard–working people who spend their earnings to make your gift so incredibly valuable, worth tens of millions of dollars, is just the height of stupidity and arrogance.