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GP said:
What more is there? Oh, I'd say a HUGE ASS contract for Arian Foster would be what's more. Or not. Deciding if the guy you want to give franchise RB money to is ready for the role or wants to be a full-time prankster and social media superstar (at the expense of others, by the way).
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LoL. No offense but that tickled me a bit.

Out of all the bad guys in the world and the knuckleheads that get contracts, if Arian foster is the wild child of our team I say we're doing pretty good.

If the texans decide not to hold on to Arian because of this they are. . .hell, there is no way they use this as a reason to not hold on to him.

That's like sendin your child to boarding school for making a C on a test.

I stick to my original thoughts, this stuff is really not that big of a deal. IMO, of course.
 
GP said:
You know, just decide already if you like me or hate me. Whichever one, it doesn't really matter to me.

How you can be nice as pie to me in one post, and then turn around and treat me like a louse in the next one is beyond me. Pick an opinion of me and stick with it.

But I call a spade a spade. Always have, always will.
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See the bold? That is your failing. You don't view individual posts, you view individuals.

See the second italicized? - that would be called being objective. Your first bold philosophy contradicts the italicized.

You get butt hurt when people don't like what you say. It ain't personal unless they make it personal. It is about that issue - whether Schaub is injury prone, whether it was wise to let Leach go, etc.

And yeah, your posts are verbose. That is an observation, not an attack.
 
Double Barrel said:
I have no animosity toward anyone on this board, GP.

Think about it, though: You call me and ass and expect no rebuttal? Seriously? Especially when my take to Arian's mom was in appreciation and to share my own experiences about my son. Perhaps I should be calling you an ass but adding a hole on the end. (j/k, man, blink twice if you get it...)

This story is about Arian Foster. We do not see eye-to-eye and can agree to disagree. But it's not about us, it's about Arian and how we perceive the story. Nothing more and nothing less.

Don't take sarcasm so personal. But then again, is it really sarcasm when it has to be explained? :winky:
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I never called YOU an ass.

I said "some" people, but if you want to out yourself, go for it. Re-read the post. I made that accusation to be as general as someone else's "outlier" depiction of those who aren't roiling with laughter over the tweets.

For the record, a good 97% of people were Internet high-fiving Foster's mom. And I took great care to try and word my post carefully so that it would not be portrayed as me being rude to her. Now I bet she won't be coming back here for awhile, mostly because her son pulled the MRI tweet trick in the meantime...and I sorta' feel bad for her now. She came here to talk up her son, and he was out there revealing an MRI of himself and now the Texans are talking to him about it. Bad timing, and I genuinely hate that. For real.

As for taking things personal, you added the bit in here about how you related your experience with your kid. Why do that here, in this back-and-forth? I was not bagging on your experience. I talked her up, a lot, and ended it with two paragraphs talking about positive qualities of Arian. Of course, one of those things was that I said "He didn't stir up anything when he was low man on the totem pole here," and now there's a smidgeon of "stirring stuff up" attached to these tweets.

The whole thing is just unfortunate. We're playing a game Thursday night, which is 24 hours from now, and the focus should be on that game. But it's not. We're debating Arian's social media skills. His doing, not mine.
 
I don't know why we are comparing Arian Foster to Andre Johnson or Peyton Manning.

He's Arian Foster. Honestly, if we had a team full of Andre-like personality it would be a boring as hell team. People want guys with a little personality and well here he is.

Superbowl teams have ALL kinds of personalities and really as long as Arian is not breaking the law and making enemies with teammates whose to say HIS personality isn't good or beneficial to the team? Some teammates love guys like this.
 
infantrycak said:
See the bold? That is your failing. You don't view individual posts, you view individuals.

See the second italicized? - that would be called being objective. Your first bold philosophy contradicts the italicized.

You get butt hurt when people don't like what you say. It ain't personal unless they make it personal. It is about that issue - whether Schaub is injury prone, whether it was wise to let Leach go, etc.

And yeah, your posts are verbose. That is an observation, not an attack.
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Are we going to analyze things?

You're extremely hyper-critical of ANYTHING I post, 'Cak. LOL. I have over 8,000 rep points and you can't find ONE thing to agree with me on? Don't you find that stat to be revealing? Isn't it saying something when you only denigrate me post after post and have had, IIRC, only one positive rep of me in the many years I've been here?

Yeah, I'll say it. And I'll say it again: People are guilty of criticizing the image they have of me, not the ideas I am so verbose about, as you call it.

But why am I even debating you? In your eyes, you are right and I am wrong. Of course, 8,000 rep points say that not everyone shares your opinion. Thank God for rep, btw. It at least shows a true indicator of what fellow posters think of us on here, and not what one person's agenda aims to accomplish in that area.

Do we want to get back to the topic of Arian Foster's tweets now? I think it's a dead issue, actually. He's being spoken to by Texans brass, we're sitting here debating the merits of all of it, and I ain't the only one who is butt hurt here. 97% of you guys are butt hurt because you opened the door in your face, via Internet high-fiving his mother, and WHAM! national media attention for all the wrong reasons. From our star RB, of all people.

Geez Louise, why couldn't this stuff have ever happened to Travis Johnson or Amobi Okoye? That's my big dilemma right now.
 
GP said:
She came here to talk up her son, and he was out there revealing an MRI of himself and now the Texans are talking to him about it. Bad timing, and I genuinely hate that. For real.
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Re read her post. She talks about the MRI. In fact it's the first thing she mentioned.

You keep talking about bad timing and people being blind sided, but I'm wondering if you truly read and attempted to comprehend her post.

I didn't even make a comment about his mom's post, but it seems like you have a problem that other people did?

She came on and tried to give a little insight into her son's personality so people could better understand him. Not sure why you are making this into something it's not.
 
Rey said:
It's really not that serious.
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In what context?

In the context of life and death or war and peace you'd be correct.

But in the context of running a professional football operation, it's pretty serious. Offering up private medical information to the masses is tantamount to broadcasting top secret information to the enemy.

Now the Colts can gameplan around the fact that Arian won't be involved.

Not cool.
 
Rey said:
LoL. No offense but that tickled me a bit.

Out of all the bad guys in the world and the knuckleheads that get contracts, if Arian foster is the wild child of our team I say we're doing pretty good.

If the texans decide not to hold on to Arian because of this they are. . .hell, there is no way they use this as a reason to not hold on to him.

That's like sendin your child to boarding school for making a C on a test.

I stick to my original thoughts, this stuff is really not that big of a deal. IMO, of course.
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That would suck, especially after the Steelers hang onto guys like Harrison who constantly says controversial things and all they do is slap his wrist and move on. Shows why the Steelers are always contenders.

Texans said internal discipline soooo....it's just a "Don't do this again please." I bet and the issue will be forgotten within the team while fans and such still go on about it.

Too bad this is the transition from week 4 of preseason to week 1 of the real season AKA the longest week ever. So not much to talk about until the real season starts.
 
TexansFanatic said:
In what context?

In the context of life and death or war and peace you'd be correct.

But in the context of running a professional football operation, it's pretty serious. Offering up private medical information to the masses is tantamount to broadcasting top secret information to the enemy.

Now the Colts can gameplan around the fact that Arian won't be involved.

Not cool.
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I don't think you've been keeping up.

Re-read what the op said about the MRI. You don't have to take it as gospel, but I think it's far from a "fact" that he won't play.

He shouldn't have done it, but really I think this has all gotten a bit dramatic.
 
Rey said:
Re read her post. She talks about the MRI. In fact it's the first thing she mentioned.

You keep talking about bad timing and people being blind sided, but I'm wondering if you truly read and attempted to comprehend her post.

I didn't even make a comment about his mom's post, but it seems like you have a problem that other people did?
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It's just the inherent nature of what I call "Rah-Rah! YAY!" threads.

You have no room to interject any other "stuff" except what sounds nice and syrupy, all those things that the hardcore posters on here say they DON'T like to do. But she came on here, and it was "Give her the key to the city" spirit in almost every post.

I don't think she deserves to be treated so shallowly. I was nice to her, and it wasn't like I had to try hard to do that, either. It was sincere from me. But I also felt like stating the obvious, for the sake of posterity: He's human, he's flawed, and it's not "mean-spirited" to be critical of his twitter activity.

But it's made out by a few of the 97% as if there is an a-hole or two roaming the boards, and they have to apologize for the "rudeness" of the 3%.

If I'm a bad member for pointing that out, and refusing to go with the flow, then so be it. I think the guy, Arian, is frustrated by the recurring hammy, and it's eating at him to the point that he's being passive aggressive with his energy to the point that it's causing problems.

Our strengths, carried to their extreme, becomes our weakness. His posts are usually no big deal, but look how "angry" the posts are when it occurs around the issue of the injury. His strength is in playing football, but he's hurt and i know he's upset by it (strength becomes a weakness). His other strength is his social media posts, but he's frustrated about his injury and the ensuing media attention, and he lashes out at everybody about it (strength becomes a weakness).

I love to communicate and talk football, but my posts are TOO DAMN LONG. My strength has become a weakness. I. Need. Help.
 
Rey said:
I don't think you've been keeping up.
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This is always a possibility. ;-) Be that as it may...

Rey said:
Re-read what the op said about the MRI. You don't have to take it as gospel, but I think it's far from a "fact" that he won't play.
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Here is what the op said about the MRI:
"The pic of his hammy was from the day after the SF game."

According to the doctor on ESPN and our own doctor here on the board, that MRI indicates Arian shouldn't play the first game and possibly not even the first two or three.

That's not cool. A player offering up that kind of information to the world is essentially like an American soldier broadcasting to the Taliban that we aren't going to have as many bombs to drop on their positions as we normally do.
 
ahhhh the passion of football!!!

TexMexMom, thanks for posting. Not everyone on here is a hater.

I hope Arian gets better and runs for 2000 yards this season!
 
GP said:
That, folks, is not cool. Is this guy a football player, or is he not? Would Peyton Manning get on twitter and do that?
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no.. peyton he just flat out tanks his concussion tests to the team's face before the season starts
 
Vinny said:
once the games start most of the drama will leech out of this weird off-season-lockout, end of humanity, it's hot as hell this summer (or we are flooding like crazy), lead in to the regular season. The FF crowd will get goofy with any injury to a top 3 pick....it's like the scorpion and the turtle story.
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Am I the only one that noticed Vinny is back?

Maybe you've been back for awhile but I havent seen you post.....at any rate, welcome back.
 
DBCooper said:
ahhhh the passion of football!!!

TexMexMom, thanks for posting. Not everyone on here is a hater.

I hope Arian gets better and runs for 2000 yards this season!
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Exhibit A, B, C, and so on and so forth.

In case you wanted proof, rey.
 
I'm just glad that AF mom took the time to share a bit of her family with the fans of her son's team. That was very gracious of her. It would be odd to be the relative of a public figure and see what people say about them.

If someone said something rude about my kids, I would want to brain them.

Whatever you think of whatever AF or his mom said, I politely suggest that discourteous comments be sent to other threads.

Thank you.
 
Hope none of my posts in this thread could be construed as "discourteous."

I think the world of Arian and his mother but if Arian were sitting in front of me I'd tell him the same things I said in my previous posts.

Friends don't let friends tweet MRIs.
 
TexansFanatic said:
Friends don't let friends tweet MRIs.
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And as TexMexMom said:

"That's why I know this game and all its byproducts, good and bad, will not change who Arian Foster is. So relax. He's a good guy with good intentions and if he screws up again, you know then he's just like the rest of us."

So yeah, he made a mistake. We all make mistakes. We are all humans. Except for maybe Peyton Manning.

To belabor that, after the courtesy that she showed to a bunch of interested strangers, is unnecessary.
 
I try to read every post and stay current. Where was it pointed out that the Texans reamed Arian for posting the MRI images? How did I miss that?

BTW, what a sht storm. Damn, you'd think he Kinkoed the entire playbook, dadgum. What's the biggie?
 
Texans_Chick said:
I'm just glad that AF mom took the time to share a bit of her family with the fans of her son's team. That was very gracious of her. It would be odd to be the relative of a public figure and see what people say about them.

If someone said something rude about my kids, I would want to brain them.

Whatever you think of whatever AF or his mom said, I politely suggest that discourteous comments be sent to other threads.

Thank you.
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Thanks TC, I was just going to post something along these lines. I totally agree.
 
DBCooper said:
TexMexMom, thanks for posting. Not everyone on here is a hater.
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Look, when did we get to this point in society that if anyone criticizes anything, they're automatically described as a "hater" or "hating on" or any other nonsensical derivative of that word? It's absolutely killed rational discourse--be it in sports or anything else. It is literally impossible for anyone to hold legitimate criticisms without being labeled such inane things.

Having strong concerns and criticisms over the way Arian's handled things the last few days is not "being a hater". We need to STOP use of this freakin' word as a response or description of every single damn thing. Enough of it.

Christ.
 
TheMatrix31 said:
Look, when did we get to this point in society that if anyone criticizes anything, they're automatically described as a "hater" or "hating on" or any other nonsensical derivative of that word? It's absolutely killed rational discourse--be it in sports or anything else. It is literally impossible for anyone to hold legitimate criticisms without being labeled such inane things.

Having strong concerns and criticisms over the way Arian's handled things the last few days is not "being a hater". We need to STOP use of this freakin' word as a response or description of every single damn thing. Enough of it.

Christ.
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Lol, it's just an expression.

There's some uptight mothers around here! (not you TexMexMom)
 
I love Arian Foster. I do.

But, folks, it must be said: sending a picture of your hamstring to your opponents is one of the dumbest things I have ever heard. EVER. It totally undermines Kubiak's "day to day" comments about Arian's playing status, and allows other teams doctors to diagnose.

Arian had better be glad he's not playing for Bill Belecheck, or he would be suspended.
 
DBCooper said:
Lol, it's just an expression.

There's some uptight mothers around here! (not you TexMexMom)
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No kidding. I thought all this bickering might start to slow down once the season started, but man was I wrong. People are turning on each other like they did back in the HWWNBM days. It's like Arian wasn't the best player in football last year and is the reason the team sucked. Say the guy made a mistake AND move the **** on. Sometimes being a fan means you blindly support the players on your team because they are a part of YOUR team. I doubt Arian's teammates are as butt hurt as some of the fans around here apparently are.

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TheMatrix31 said:
Look, when did we get to this point in society that if anyone criticizes anything, they're automatically described as a "hater" or "hating on" or any other nonsensical derivative of that word? It's absolutely killed rational discourse--be it in sports or anything else. It is literally impossible for anyone to hold legitimate criticisms without being labeled such inane things.

Having strong concerns and criticisms over the way Arian's handled things the last few days is not "being a hater". We need to STOP use of this freakin' word as a response or description of every single damn thing. Enough of it.

Christ.
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Totally agree. I'm a huge Arian fan, but I think he's a total ***** for posting his hamstring online.

Sorry, Arian's mom. No disrespect intended, but the truth is, this was a bad call by Arian.
 
This debacle is nonsense. Neither TexMexMom or Arian Foster owes me nor anyone else an explaination. Each to their own. What they do off the field matters none to me. All I ask is that they plow the Colts. Eff them.

Thanks for posting, TexMexMom... I really appreciated your post reminding us that the 2320apy/18td freakazoid is as human as the rest of us. BTW.....

*high five*
 
Ckw said:
No kidding. I thought all this bickering might start to slow down once the season started, but man was I wrong. People are turning on each other like they did back in the HWWNBM days. It's like Arian wasn't the best player in football last year and is the reason the team sucked. Say the guy made a mistake AND move the **** on. Sometimes being a fan means you blindly support the players on your team because they are a part of YOUR team. I doubt Arian's teammates are as butt hurt as some of the fans around here apparently are.

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That gif is so frikin funny!

I can't wait for the season start, maybe some of the posters around here can get a little action of their own and chill a little.
 
houstonspartan said:
Totally agree. I'm a huge Arian fan, but I think he's a total ***** for posting his hamstring online.

Sorry, Arian's mom. No disrespect intended, but the truth is, this was a bad call by Arian.
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Wait a minute! Can't you just say he made a mistake without calling him whatever was sensored? Why do you have to personally attack him? Then you say "no disrespect intended?" What else but disrespect? Voice your opinion and explain why you believe it but leave name calling on the playground.

WOuld you not feel disrespected if your child was called whatever you typed?
 
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Here we have a special opportunity to interact and talk football fandom with the mother of one of our star players, and we're giving her no incentive to come back.

Remember when you were a kid and you'd go to your friend's house after school, and his family would end up getting into a huge, viscious fight that aired all the dirty laundry and made you feel super uncomfortable? Yeah, that's this thread.
 
Brisco_County said:
Here we have a special opportunity to interact and talk football fandom with the mother of one of our star players, and we're giving her no incentive to come back.

Remember when you were a kid and you'd go to your friend's house after school, and his family would end up getting into a huge, viscious fight that aired all the dirty laundry and made you feel super uncomfortable? Yeah, that's this thread.
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Hilarious analogy dude! Rep your way!
 
DBCooper said:
Lol, it's just an expression.

There's some uptight mothers around here! (not you TexMexMom)
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It's not JUST an expression when its the only thing that's said like, every single damn time someone makes any criticism of anybody or anything nowadays.

"Oh, I didn't think Inception was that great."
"Man, you're crazy, stop hating."

"I think Kobe Bryant has a few flaws in his game, and I don't think his defense is as good as people might think."
"Wow, why ya gotta hate?"

"I believe that Lil Wayne's lyricism is nothing special, especially considering there are some actually great lyricists out there."
"I see we're still sippin' the haterade. Wayne is greatness."

....or whatever it is. Example after example after example.

It's super freakin' frustrating.
 
Brisco_County said:
Here we have a special opportunity to interact and talk football fandom with the mother of one of our star players, and we're giving her no incentive to come back.

Remember when you were a kid and you'd go to your friend's house after school, and his family would end up getting into a huge, viscious fight that aired all the dirty laundry and made you feel super uncomfortable? Yeah, that's this thread.
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No doubt.

One sure way to have a player NOT be fan friendly is to dis-whatever his mom.
 
How some folks can take a thread about Arian Foster's social media style and turn in into an argument about eachother is beyond me.

Sometimes I feel like people post here just to argue with someone. Just because some people dont agree with eachother doesnt mean they need to convince the other person to think like they do.

I think this thread has run its course.
 
Brisco_County said:
Here we have a special opportunity to interact and talk football fandom with the mother of one of our star players, and we're giving her no incentive to come back.

Remember when you were a kid and you'd go to your friend's house after school, and his family would end up getting into a huge, viscious fight that aired all the dirty laundry and made you feel super uncomfortable? Yeah, that's this thread.
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I don't see anyone attacking her what are you talking about, we are simply discussing the situation. Fostersmom is no stranger to firing up and talking on the message boards, search fostersmom booster on google lol.
 
GP said:
I hate it when people make this a deal of needing to be a complete rah-rah homer..or you gotta' be painted as being a naysayer/outlier who has goofy opinions that should be ignored or taken with a grain of salt.

Somewhere in-between is the truth.

So here's my shot at the truth, which is somewhere in-between:

(1.) On one side, thanks for taking the time to tell us more about you and your family. I read all of it, enjoyed all all of it, and it's cool that you would come here and share with us.

(2.) On the other side, you're his mom and we all know that mom's gonna' have our backs through thick and through thin (as they should, by the way!).

The truth (which is sandwiched between #1 and #2 here) is this: Arian is his own man, makes his own decisions, and he's human and gonna' fail like any other mortal man would. Day to day decision-making is inherently rife with plenty of chances to make mistakes. IMO, his mistakes are magnified because of the amount of people "following" him and the success and subsequent fan favor that comes with that. That's not Arian's fault, it's not the public's fault, it just is what it is and it's been that way forever.

I'm entitled to my opinion, as are others, and I don't even recall anybody really "hating" on Arian for his style of communication on the Internets. I've said, and I will maintain and continue to say that anything a person tweets--due to the limited content space you are given on twitter--is going to have a good shot at being misunderstood if it's cryptic in nature or semi-condescending or sarcastic or emotionally-charged, etc. The person automatically leaves it open to interpretation, and I don't buy the horsecrap some people are offering about how it's only the fault of the stupid people who don't know what Arian means in his messages.

To that degree, I think it's shallow for some people to divide everyone involved into groups and paint themselves as being the smart, understanding person and the others as being nitpicking nitwits. Not leveling this charge at you, but at others who seem to find joy in dividing and conquering.

Your son is a great person. He came in as an UDFA, by which he calculated very wisely his chances for making the roster AND earning the starter's role as well. He didn't whine about being undrafted, he didn't try to stir up anything when he was virtually unknown by most fans and the media here. He just stuck it out and kept grinding away. That's what I see in Arian: A guy who is a hard worker, loyal to his own personality and to those who are in his life (such as you), and an incredibly talented running back that we're very lucky to have latched onto!

I hope my post here wasn't scathing. I didn't mean it to be. I just wanted to say that even those who are being critical are being critical for reasons that are not as awful as being painted by others. We all want the same thing: Arian to play well, Texans to win, and everybody celebrate a Lombardi Trophy being hoisted in the air. I hope we all get what we want!
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IF I COULD NEGATIVE REP YOU, I WOULD!! You have some nerve coming in here acting all smart and reasonable and stuff. How dare you not let those of us here have our fun and feel triumphant in internet argument today?!

I kid! Great Post!
 
TheMatrix31 said:
It's not JUST an expression when its the only thing that's said like, every single damn time someone makes any criticism of anybody or anything nowadays.

"Oh, I didn't think Inception was that great."
"Man, you're crazy, stop hating."

"I think Kobe Bryant has a few flaws in his game, and I don't think his defense is as good as people might think."
"Wow, why ya gotta hate?"

"I believe that Lil Wayne's lyricism is nothing special, especially considering there are some actually great lyricists out there."
"I see we're still sippin' the haterade. Wayne is greatness."

....or whatever it is. Example after example after example.

It's super freakin' frustrating.
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This ^^^^^

Lesson learned: Stay out of Rah-Rah threads if you disagree with the chant.
 
Perki-Perk said:
IF I COULD NEGATIVE REP YOU, I WOULD!! You have some nerve coming in here acting all smart and reasonable and stuff. How dare you not let those of us here have our fun and feel triumphant in internet argument today?!

I kid! Great Post!
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It's like people have this internal desire/urge to blindly defend "our guy" when not even his employer (the Texans) are supporting his actions. In fact, they're not happy at all.

I'm sure whatever I said on here is peaches & cream compared to what he's heard from a handful of Texans brass.

If Arian doesn't want to be treated like a piece of meat (his words) he needs to stop skinning himself alive and dangling his carcass in front of the lions.

Good ideas have good consequences. Bad ideas have bad consequences. This is lost on many people, I'm afraid. It's always somebody else's fault...
 
LZ talking about this right now on 790.

Edit:, and they're done. Just a quick couple of minutes but they mention the forum by name and I think I heard the url.
 
Epic post.

The first time I heard Arian speak I knew he was a different cat. The more I read about him and from him, the more I like him as a human being.

Thankfully his job is to kick ass for my favorite team.

And...the post makes me miss my mom....and makes me hungry for some green chili stew.
 
GP said:
It's like people have this internal desire/urge to blindly defend "our guy" when not even his employer (the Texans) are supporting his actions. In fact, they're not happy at all.

I'm sure whatever I said on here is peaches & cream compared to what he's heard from a handful of Texans brass.

If Arian doesn't want to be treated like a piece of meat (his words) he needs to stop skinning himself alive and dangling his carcass in front of the lions.

Good ideas have good consequences. Bad ideas have bad consequences. This is lost on many people, I'm afraid. It's always somebody else's fault...
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GP, I think a lot of the backlash you are experiencing is from your tone. From my persepective it seems your posts in this thread were geared toward more of a challenge to AF's mom and Arian himself through his mother, as opposed to just stating your opinion. Those of us that have been on TT long enough know that you have an opinion on just about everything, and your not shy about letting everyone know what it is. Hell, I think you would write an 8 paragraph dissertation on why wooden toothpicks are superior to plastic ones. Also it seems sometimes (to me anyway) you get so caught up in letting us all know what your opinion is you start to believe what your saying is actual fact, as opposed to just an opinion. It's like watching a snow ball rolling downhill grow bigger and bigger, but in the form of a short novel.

I agree that AF probably should be a little more selective with what he posts on Twitter, but all in all it is not that serious. I personally do not understand or care to understand the Twitter phenomenon, that goes for Facebook and all the other social networking stuff. Then again I was raised in a different era where none of that existed and social networking generally was face to face or at the very least over a phone. Athletes these days have so many more opportunities to step on their cranks, and have it be seen, then they did 10, 20, 30 yrs ago. Used to be the only time you heard from an athlete was in an evening news interview or some quotes in the Sunday paper. The impression I get from AF and his posting of the MRI is he is jacking w/ the media, perhaps even conducting his own social networking experiment of sorts. Maybe to see how much people get worked up over nothing, perhaps that is part of his sense of humor TexMexMom was talking about. If he screwed up by doing so and violated team policy he has to pay his dues for that, simple enough.

I'm sure that once word gets out about this thread, and it seems to have already done that unfortunately, we (TTalk) may end up losing a unique perspective on one of the Texans players.
 
ESAD2-14 said:
GP, I think a lot of the backlash you are experiencing is from your tone. From my persepective it seems your posts in this thread were geared toward more of a challenge to AF's mom and Arian himself through his mother, as opposed to just stating your opinion. Those of us that have been on TT long enough know that you have an opinion on just about everything, and your not shy about letting everyone know what it is. Hell, I think you would write an 8 paragraph dissertation on why wooden toothpicks are superior to plastic ones. Also it seems sometimes (to me anyway) you get so caught up in letting us all know what your opinion is you start to believe what your saying is actual fact, as opposed to just an opinion. It's like watching a snow ball rolling downhill grow bigger and bigger, but in the form of a short novel.

I agree that AF probably should be a little more selective with what he posts on Twitter, but all in all it is not that serious. I personally do not understand or care to understand the Twitter phenomenon, that goes for Facebook and all the other social networking stuff. Then again I was raised in a different era where none of that existed and social networking generally was face to face or at the very least over a phone. Athletes these days have so many more opportunities to step on their cranks, and have it be seen, then they did 10, 20, 30 yrs ago. Used to be the only time you heard from an athlete was in an evening news interview or some quotes in the Sunday paper. The impression I get from AF and his posting of the MRI is he is jacking w/ the media, perhaps even conducting his own social networking experiment of sorts. Maybe to see how much people get worked up over nothing, perhaps that is part of his sense of humor TexMexMom was talking about. If he screwed up by doing so and violated team policy he has to pay his dues for that, simple enough.

I'm sure that once word gets out about this thread, and it seems to have already done that unfortunately, we (TTalk) may end up losing a unique perspective on one of the Texans players.
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Your last paragraph is an excellent summary.
Rep.
and /thread.
:D
 
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