49ers' Players Upset When Fans Cheer Quarterback's Injury: Surprised That Football Fans Are Terrible People
The San Francisco 49ers' Eric Reid and Reuben Foster expressed their disappointment Sunday with fans' reaction to quarterback C.J. Beathard's injury, which led to to Jimmy Garoppolo's debut with the team. Beathard suffered a left leg injury with 1 minute, 7 seconds remaining in Sunday's game against the Seattle Seahawks during a big hit as he attempted a pass, forcing him to depart. Some fans, realizing that Garoppolo was about to enter the game, began cheering while the rookie quarterback was still down on the field.
"Our starting quarterback got hurt, and people are cheering before he even stands up, and that pisses me off, so I'm disappointed in our fans," Reid said following the 49ers' 24-13 loss. "I understand the excitement about Jimmy, he's a great player, but that's not right."
Uhhh ya think guys? Football fans are vicious, maybe some of the most vicious out there. I mean when you think about it, football season is by far the shortest of all sports seasons. We have to fit all of our passion, rage, existential angst, and ecstasy, into an abbreviated period of time. There’s no filter. The fans see red. You cheer for people to get hurt so that other people get a shot, and you breathe a sigh of relief when rival players get knocked out, it’s fucking terrible. Look, we already have all the evidence we need that NFL fans are scumbags. So of course the fans are going to cheer when C.J. Beathard gets hurt so that Garropolo can come in. We’re all pieces of shit!
I’m not excluding myself from this conversation. From September to January (my football season never really makes it to January), I’m a mouth breathing, calorie consuming, referee cursing literal piece of scum. I’m not proud of it, but I know better than to deny it. So I understand when the 49ers fan base is excited to finally see Garropolo get a shot, that guy’s been forbidden fruit for years!
The greatest trick of all is that 98% of NFL fans will never be happy. We’ll become appeased long enough from a minor thing like Garropolo playing that we’ll forget how fucking miserable we are. And then when Garropolo inevitably sucks and goes down, we’ll cheer so that when Beathard gets back in the game. The circle of misery continues and we're too dumb too angry to see it. We’re fucking idiots. We’re fucking miserable idiots.
