Okay let's start right off with this. I can't not mention how stupid too many pro football fans can be. In fact I will tell you straight away, one of the main reasons I do a relatively decent job of being "sports celibate" -- this means I watch or hear or read about zero sports items as long as my innate sports radar doesn't somehow pick something up -- is because of one of the most loathsome things anywhere in any media: the regular sports fan guy sports commentary show. 92% of the time their sports takes are just flat-out idiotic. And most of any of their on-air time is spent blithering about ridiculously pointless stuff.
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Eons ago.
The thing about the regular sports fan guy is way too often he does something as supremely idiotic as post social media threats against the athlete they think ruined their lives by -- in the Buffalo Bills kicker's instance -- missing a critical kick late in a playoff game. The Bills kicker Tyler Bass today closed his social media account because of the overwhelming number of threats made against him. I don't know how many made threats, I'm sure most Bills fans are pretty decent people, but however many threats there were is absolutely inexcusable.
I do not know him. There is no reason for me to think or feel anything about anything he does on the football field. I have ZERO relationship with him and have ZERO privilege to say anything to him in any platform anywhere anyhow.
This is besides the fact that I respect every Chiefs player for just giving his all for my favorite team. Every fan should have the same consideration for every player on their favorite team. Again, I know most do, but... yikes.
This is all besides the very simple fact that when Bass missed the game-tying field goal, there was about 1:40 left on the game clock. You know, I really wish he had made that kick, because then with the Chiefs getting the ball back, Patrick Mahomes could have taken the snap, dropped back to pass, and thrown an easy pick-six whereupon the Bills defender could then have fumbled the ball at the one-yard line, whereupon right guard Trey Smith would have scooped up the fumble and after rumbling about 40 yards running over Bills defenders flailing about trying to bring him down, lateraled it to left tackle Donovan Smith who then could rumble another 40 or so yards breaking tackles until he fumbles it to a Bills defender who then could streak back down the length of the field and could get close to the goal line until he fumbles it, whereupon the ball takes the craziest bounces eluding the grasp of every other Bills defender on the field until it skips and wobbles and spurts all the way back to the Bills endzone whereupon Patrick Mahomes backflips over four Bills linemen and lands in such a way that the ball gets stuck in his helmet faceguard for the game-clinching touchdown.
For you see, now Mr. Regular Sports Fan Guy Smart Ass has a whole bunch of Bills players to assault on social media, and I'm sure he's brave enough to call out every one of them who fumbled the ball and missed tackles and didn't make the play that needed to be made and definitely lost the game for his beloved pro football team.
Never mind that in reality the Chiefs defense in that 4th quarter just got the Bills throttled enough to keep them from making plays. How about threatening those two receivers on their social media sites, the ones who dropped those deep throws they really should have caught? How about threatening the Bills quarterback for missing a wide-open receiver in the end zone on that one key play? How about threatening every Bills player for just not scoring a whole bunch of touchdowns that you think they should have scored just so your pathetic life can have a couple of good-feels you can't get from being a decent human being to begin with?
Even if Bass makes that kick, in all serious reality, Mahomes has that 1:40 left in regulation to matriculate the ball downfield against a tired and depleted Bills defense, a very real possibility, and even if he does only get the Chiefs into field goal range, the Chiefs would be leaving it up to the leg of Harrison Butker, who, if you didn't notice, has been rails this year. And even if Butker misses, the worst both teams have is overtime.
So wow. Not only is the threatening thing just plain criminal for any reason, that they are doing it to this Bills kicker is plainly beyond wickedly stupid.
I would post more but that I got this down is enough for now -- I felt I just had to share this, and I hope others feel the same way.
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The photo of Harrison Butker is from the Steve Sanders at the official Chiefs site. Thank you.
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