Denver fans seem like the least likely to be dwfs. Most of them realize that Hillis is the best back on the roster, so I hope they speak out against the coach about not starting the best players and refuse to buy tickets or watch the games. I stopped going and watching Saints games during the Haslett era after Delhomme played way better than Brooks and was cut, took his new team the Superbowl. I wasn't even aware of a caste system then, but I realized the whole "the coaches are going to play the best players that give them a chance to win" was false. By the way Marc Bulger, Jake Delhomme, JT O'Sullivan were all backups to Brooks who are still in the league while Brooks is still waiting for that phone call.
I keep hitting my head on the wall every day because my wife and I moved to Louisiana from Denver to where I grew up. It was a financial reason but still, at least there are SOME decent fans, more White people and Colorado State has a White RB and CB!
At least its good to know fans are waking up in some parts of the country, when a White player gets cut here nobody questions it even if that player was good (I could go on forever with a list, Hass all the way back to Poole, etc). Fans are still screaming to cut Shanle who has improved greatly at WLB. This is after Vilma has come out and said he wouldnt be playing as well if it weren't for Shanle, and Sean Payton coming out and saying Shanle was one of the best on the team. Even the new D-coordinator (who fans think is this genius guru that is going to turn 2 fat DE's into great pass rushers) who knew nothing of Shanle before arriving here came out and said he was pretty damn good and is glad to be working with linebackers of their caliber (Fujita, Vilma, Shanle)
Diehard LSU fans laugh at the idea of Hester being a RB in the pros or Steltz being a starting FS. This is after seeing it with their own eyes that they were good (there is no way LSU makes it to national championship without Hester, so many 3rd and short/4th and short that Les Miles "gambled on" that Hester picked up to keep the drives going, when everything else failed on offense all that they had to do was run Hester who would always get positive yardage no matter what the situation, which is why they had like 5 losses the year after he is gone, those same situations, Charles Scott failed to pick up half of the time).
It is like they are not watching, but rather listening. A while back when the afflete LT Jammal Brown was injured, a White linemen Zach Strief came in and did fine, he got beat once. Keep in mind he is a backup RT that had 2 days notice to fill in for the LT spot. But the announcers kept dissing him the whole game talking about how unathletic he was and that he kept getting beat (they showed footage of Brees getting sacked several times, even though 1 of them was Strief getting beat, the others were of the RG Evans getting beat three times (fans think Evans is the best guard in the league). I proved on video on a Saints forum that i post on that he did not play bad, and then compared it to film of Jammal Brown, made a few people realize that he was actually good. Yet now that Jammal Brown is out again a season later, they keep talking about how Strief was horrible during the Bears game.
So, IMO it is the announcers and media that keep fans from questioning the caste system the most. Fans dont REALLY watch the game, like seriously watch it, they casually watch it while listening to the announcers. I hate how preseason is set up, when the backups are in competing for a roster spot, they are busy interviewing someone on the sidelines and rarely say squat about a big play a White guy just made.
Does anybody know who the White guy that was being helped off the field last night during the Broncos/Seahawks game? I hope it wasn't Reed, that guy should seriously be starting.
I mainly watched the Saints/Texans game last night. James Casey looked good but some scrub DB laid a dirty hit on him. He was in the very next play, he should have had a play to catch his breath. Matt Simon the one White WR on the Saints who looked good last preseason game did not play. Adrian Arrington played in his spot, made a catch very similar to Simon and now fans are saying there is no way the Saints can cut Arrington.
There was also a dirty hit I believe on Harrington, who looked to pretty good, he did a decent job of running the offense.
Shockey still looked good. I know some of you said he is overrated, but the guy is good. He plays the game all out and rough(which is why he gets injured alot). He runs in the 4.5's. He doesn't take crap from anybody, when the Saints were practicing against the Texans some black linebacker pushed him and Shockey fought back, and then had to take on several black Texans, yet he still managed to body slam the original guy to the ground. Keep in mind last season he played with a double sports hernia, and came back way sooner than he was supposed to, which is why he didn't look as good, he still caught 50 passes for around 500 yards. He only dropped a few and you could see from his face that he was in pain when he dropped it. How many black athletes would play in the type of pain Shockey plays through?Edited by: dwid
