Chris Chase: Arian Foster Is History's Greatest Monster

I hate pointless pot shots like that at the end of the article. As a Pittsburgh Pirate fan, that’s all the national media ever did when talking about them until this year. Just like the Texans, it didn’t take a rocket surgeon to look at the organization, and see the team is headed in the right direction and will compete soon. But no, who needs to think? Let’s just make crappy jokes at them and move on, it’s not like there are fans that might want to read something productive about the team. Back to talking about the Eagles endlessly (Or the Yankees-Red Sox, don’t they play each other in like a month? Better prepare!).

He makes some of the people at BSPN look good.

Nice written article BTW.

Foster update:

http://www.houstontexans.com/news/article-3/Kubiak-All-indications-positive-on-Foster%E2%80%99s-injury/f77ee966-b107-4a7e-b218-5f98cddb0617

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/pages/Fire-Chris-Chase/180365611998516

I can care less about Foster. Don’t know him except from watching the Texans. He is simply another overpaid professional athelete. Don’t want to see him injured because I am a Texans fan and think he makes our team better. He is just another thug that would be drugging, robbing, raping, and stealing if it wasn’t for football.

As I originally read Chris Chase’s article I felt the anger slowly rise. Pretty asinine and poorly written in my humble opinion. That being said, I would agree that Arian may have been the wiser to have not addressed the legions of FFF. I can imagine they may be as serious about their affliction as we are about ours (fandom in general).

Unfortunately this has already captured the attention of our ravenous sports media. Such a shame. Hopefully this doesn’t go Ochocinco on him.

fantasy football is in peewee leagues compared to the real deal, and football as a whole is in peewee leagues when compared to life and the health of an individual. people should get their priorities right as human beings. arian is right, theses people are sick. demented in their thinking that life revolves around them, and that its their right to belittle anybody who dont jump when they say.

Chris Chase is a hack. I know it’s vogue right now to bash people who get paid to write about sports, but I’ve been avoiding that guy’s articles like the plague for over a year now.

This blog has some of the best sports writing I’ve ever encountered, and it sucks that our fine writers will probably never get the chance to do what Chris Chase sucks so hard at.

That’s pretty much all I can say about Chris Chase and half of the people commenting on Yahoo who clearly don’t understand that there’s a human aspect to football. The reason why Foster got up in anger after he injured himself was not because he wanted to go score more points for a fantasy team. He was angry that he couldn’t go out there and do what he loved and just play some football.

Honestly, the man is only making 500k, and compared to people like CJ who are asking for insane amounts of money, I don’t get why people hate on Foster.

I don’t want people asking and caring for me because I’d score points for their fantasy team. It’s not a knock on them but its kinda just stupid. He plays for the Texans and he doesn’t make a distinction between fans of his football team and him being on a fantasy team because the Texans are also his team. He goes as far as his team will go and that’s probably why he’s like that against people who only care about him cause of fantasy.

Regardless, I wish Foster to get well quickly and quietly and do as good, or even better than last year, and prove to all the people in fantasy land why he deserved to be drafted #1 in the first place.

Or, I guess, we could just fall back on the lines that divide us and keep thinking that athletes aren’t human beings but extensions of laundry, then get mad when they say something that paints them as human beings.

They covered every other game and they covered Arian’s injury. le sigh, September 11th can’t come soon enough.

I didn’t think there was any way it would blow up like this. I thought the tweet would get a mention on the side in a few articles, laughs would be had because most rational people recognize fantasy for what it is, and we’d all move on.

He happens to be the worse sports writer in the history of man. The Third Reicht Sports Arm has greater diversity in its writing then this piece of work

Thanks for picking it apart Rivers.

Not much positive I can say about the Yahoo thing though.

it’s OK to not give a shit about someone and only to be interested in what they can give you.

I bet that’s how his wife, kids, boss and friends treat him.

in that we can’t be certain how much traffic (as well as the content/wording) Arian received on Twitter after leaving the field. Imagine hundreds (not that he necessarily read them all) of “dude, you better not screw me, I spent 100 dollars to enter this league”, and they all flood in within minutes. I imagine it could make a guy feel more like a collectible plastic action figure instead of a human being.

I LOVE fantasy football. I run around 8-10 teams every year, most of them for kicks, a couple for money. Yet I would never consider tweeting one of my draftees after an injury in such a manner with anything other than a proper condolance. It is unfortunate (if true) that many would take it to such extremes. Too bad media hacks feel obligated to stir the pot.

 I didn’t realize right away how Foster was being unfairly raked over the coals until yesterday.
As a Colts fan, I’ve see Arian at his very best (running through our D like it’s nothing), and he’s a heck of a player who seems like a respectable guy.
I agree with what he said, and I hope he hasn’t been forced to apologize. I can’t imagine what that would be like (I believe Dallas Clark has jokingly touched on similar issues with fantasy owners, but I can’t find anything written about it) to have people asking about your injury that’s keeping you from doing your high profile job in such a dehumanizing way as fantasy football players sometimes do.