i'm a fan of ricky williams, roy williams, vasher, dthomas, etc etc and i want them to do well, but im not a fan of either of their teams. vy is his own player. i think that's the fundamental difference here. people who are hornfans or have followed vy since h.s. realize that vy is a special special special player. everyone else doesnt really appreciate/understand the magic that he can bring and will always think the vy lovers are insane.
thats because you cant draft an entire team from the same city. or either that, or drafting a team full of houston texans would be the worst idea since surfing around a great white shark.
Today, there are between 15 and 18 million fantasy football players in the U.S., and that number has been growing by 10% every year. With the rise of fantasy football, there's been a fundamental shift in the way fans cheer for sports teams, as fans now are starting to root for individuals more so than teams. I know that when I played FF in the past (I took a break this season), I found myself actively liking and rooting for the players on my roster, regardless of the actual team they played for. And after a season of rooting for these guys to do well, this loyalty can stick with you and change your overall perceptions and attitudes towards players and teams (which can especially be reinforced if you keep drafting the same players season after season, intentional or not). Furthermore, after several seasons of FF play, you become trained to watch and root for individuals rather than teams, and in doing so, change how you look at sports entirely. I believe this is what is happening today. Therefore, if I were you, I'd get used to fans rooting for individuals over teams, because this phenomenon is not going to go away anytime soon. Resistance is futile.
Jesus Christ Buddha Allah. Are you nuts? You're either a Texan, or you're either A VY Nut sniffer. You can't have it like that. It's one or the other. Nahh. Kidding. Same boat. Texans are my team, Vince is my guy, but Vince is not wearing my Team's jersey. I'd like him so bad too. I wish I could go to realgm.com and post the bizzarest trade I can for VY, but that's not happening. I wish VY well, and hope he does a good job. hell, he well, but not on sundays when he plays the texans i can't wait to see this game. Maybe Vince should have stayed in Austin one more season, and we should have tanked it this year. We would have addressed the D last year, and maybe the QB situation this year.
I've been playing fantasy football for 2 years after years of thinking it was only for DORKS. Then, it occurred to me.......I AM a dork. But I would never root against my own team because of some silly fantasy league. I played Randy Moss yesterday thinking he might have a breakout game, but I'm glad he didn't against us.
who here is helping out Houston inner city kids play sports? meogwi? http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/sports/4294967.html "I use football to let people know what I am," Young said during a recent visit to his alma mater, Madison High School, where he donated $5,000 from his pocket and several thousand dollars worth of shoes and equipment from Reebok to the football and basketball teams.
i play fantasy football. I cheer like hell for my dude to do well. Until he starts sucking. I have no loyalty to those players. They are just pawns to my dorkyness. I don't know if i should boast that I am doing well and dominating my league (which i'm not,) but you get the idea.
Some people might if there was money riding on the outcome. Not everyone, of course, but some. Still, I never said this shift would result in fans rooting against their own team. I'm just trying to explain that I think people like rooting for individuals over entire teams because that kind of thinking has become ingrained in them. For me, personally, this is why I seem to root for Tom Brady and Ahman Green. I always somehow end up with those f***ers in FF, and I KNOW it has affected me. Now, perhaps this doesn't hold true for some FF players (like Kam, who is seemingly impervious to all forms of brainwashing, except when it comes to Vanessa Hudgens). It's just a theory, after all.
there are alot of athletes that give back to their city. google some up. not just houston or tampa, or south central. i'm sure sam cassell donated lots of money to his home planet.
this is what i've been trying to say all along! anyone can accept that. it's the ones who are rooting for the Texans to fail just so they can say "I told you so" about Vince. i don't mind Vince being a great QB for the Titans, but i'd never want him to win a SuperBowl. imagine that Yao had been drafted by Dallas. no ****ing way i'd want him to bring Dallas a championship, although he can have all the individual accolades he wwants.
some people just seem not to be able to let go of college. show up with the burnt orange. that logo almost loos like the texans logo.
money's on the line, I'm rooting against my team, or maybe at least someone to do well if its fantasy football. I don't gamble, except for fantasy football but if I did, I would just try to avoid betting on a team I'm rooting for. loyalty is nice, but these teams don't pay me.
see, there's no way in the world i could bet AGAINST the 'stros or rockets. i get loyalty. i'm just having a hard time with it when it comes with a startup franchise.
damn, thats harsh.. im a huge vince young fan. if the texans arent gonna win the superbowl, id want it to be vince young. i will continually watch his games because i watched him in texas and love the way he plays. if the texans dont win it all, go titans.
