[SI.com] Texans players Rip Houston Fans

rezdawg · Oct 17, 2013

tmacfor35 said: ↑

NOBODY WAS CHEERING AN INJURY!!!! They were cheering a quarterback change! There is a difference. I was at the game, and the applause did not intensify until Schaub was being taken out of the game.
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One of my best friends growing up, season ticket holder, was at the game and cheering because Schaub got injured...he was laughing at Schaub gimping off the field...I definitely know that there were more like him.

vinsensual · Oct 17, 2013

Too far, but worth posting if someone hadn't already. From SBnation

vinsensual · Oct 17, 2013

tmacfor35 said: ↑

So when Brian Cushing makes a big hit toward the head area, do you cheer? Or do you complain and say that the hit was morally unjust and is not correct to applause as it could have lead to head trauma?
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Hypothetical since Cushing and Watt've done a good job of legal tackling. Kareem hasn't and I see/hear nothing but curses shot his way when he launches himself or gets too physical.

The only player football fans should be cheering for an injury is Cortland Finnegan. Maybe Suh.

Thefabman · Oct 17, 2013

J.R. said: ↑

All we were missing is Eric Winston in the post-game!

Before we start, I got something to say, alright. If this isn't posted in the paper, run on your thing, this is the last time you'll ever hear me talk to you. We are athletes, okay. We are athletes. We are not gladiators. This isn't the Roman Coliseum.

People pay their money, hard earned money to come in here and I believe they can boo, they can cheer, they can do whatever they want because I believe that. Hey, we are lucky to play this game. A game. To come in here, it's hard economic times and they still pay the money to do this okay but when somebody gets hurt, there are long lasting ramifications to the game we play. Long lasting ramifications to the game we play. I kinda already come to the understanding I won't live as long because I play this game and that's okay. That's the choice I've made. That's the choice all of us have made. But when you cheer somebody getting knocked out, I don't care who it is and it just so happened to be Matt Schaub, it's sickening. It's 100% sickening. I've never ever and I've been in some rough times on some rough teams, I've never been more embarrassed in my life to play football than in that moment right there. And I get emotional about it because these guys, they work their butts off. Matt Schaub hasn't done anything to you people. Hasn't done anything to you people. Hasn't done anything to the media writers that kill him. Hasn't done anything wrong to the people that come out here and cheer him. Hey, if he's not the best quarterback, he's not the best quarterback and that's okay but he's a person. And he got knocked out in a game and we got 70,000 people cheering that he got knocked out. Boo him all you want. Boo me all you want. Throw me under the bus. Tell me I'm doing a bad job. Say I gotta protect him more. Do whatever you want. Say whatever you want. But if you were one of those people, one of those people that were out there cheering or even smiled when he got knocked out, I just want to let you know and I want everybody to know I think it's sickening and disgusting. We are not gladiators and this is not the Roman Coliseum. This is a game. And I'll sit here and I'll answer all your questions for the next thirty minutes if you want to ask 'em. I'll take all the responsibility you want me to take because I deserve it. If you want to blame, blame me but don't blame a guy and cheer for a guy who has done everything in his power to play as good as he can for the fans. It's sickening and I was embarrassed. I want every single one of you people to put that on your station, to put that in your newspapers because I want every fan to know that. This is a game that's gonna cost us a lot down the road. That's okay, we picked it, we deserve it, I don't want your pity. But we got a lot of problems as a society if people think that that's okay.
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i dont know why but i read this in phillip seymour hoffmans voice.

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