Hawktawk wrote:I have to play devils advocate with this a bit. Watkins is basically correct about much of what he said about people who rag about injured players. It could have been said much more tactfully but most of the people who call out injured NFL players would be hospitalized after one collision with a strong safety over the middle. Yet most everyone in the NFL does their best to make it on the field on Sunday. This is a brutally violent sport that the average fan cannot understand the magnitude of.
I think sometimes some fans do need to "get a life".
But that's not what he said. He didn't defend his position by noting that he plays in a brutally violent sport, he said anyone that questions an injury are
"losers" and told his fans to just go about working
"at your own little jobs for the rest of your lives". It was a slap in the face to every man and woman that has to work an 8 hour a day, 40 hour a week job and worry about putting food on the table, pay the rent, and put little Billy and Mary through college, all things that prima donna doesn't have to worry about. He insulted several classes of people with those comments.
If those incredibly insensitive comments happened to be about race, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation, instead of class he'd be suspended. But because he insulted a majority rather than a minority, it will pass without so much as an eyebrow being raised.