“Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.” – Mary McGrory

 I love this time of year, not only for the beautiful fall colors, weather, and smells, but for football. It encompasses my entire weekend, staring very early Saturday morning with college football all the way to Monday Night Football. My brain is constantly being filled with numerous names and statistics and I love it.

Besides the Patriots winning per the usual, another NFL game stuck out in my mind this weekend; it happened to be the Kansas City Chiefs versus the Baltimore Ravens. For those who have watched ESPN and Sportscenter as of yesterday, you may be able to predict what I might be talking about. I guess it wasn’t more the game that was mind boggling, but a gesture that happened during the game. Matt Cassel, the quarterback for the KC Chiefs, suffered a concussion during the game. Typically, one should expect to hear applause in respect to the player, but what did Matt Cassel get to stand up to? .. Cheering. Yes, the Kansas City fans were so irritated with Matt Cassel’s performance up until then that they had the audacity to cheer when he got hurt. Who does that? Eric Winston, an OT for the KC Chiefs, has taken the stand and how you say, lashed out, at fans saying how utterly sickening and disappointing it is to have that happen. I agree! I would love to have someone like Eric on my team if I were Matt Cassel. I mean, sure, everyone has a bad game, but, to the point where your own fans are cheering because of an injury? Man! I would be a little intimidated to go back onto the home field if I were him, honestly. However, part of me would black out those memories of what I heard that day and also realize that if those were true, devoted fans, they wouldnt have ever done that. Criticism is coming from every direction, especially when you are famous. You just have to learn how to deal with it.

Here is the interview with Eric Winston: http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2012/10/7/3471496/video-chiefs-ot-eric-winston-takes-fans-to-task-for-cheering-matt