Playing Yourself!

"Really?"

Last summer I wrote a joint entitled "Fan vs. Groupie" which asked the simple question, which category do you fall into? It’s completely permissible to be a fan of a team or a particular player because you like the way they get down. Some people find motivation in teams or athletes and I just believe that it's why sports have become so popular. The problem arises when people jump off of the fan bridge into the groupie abyss!

I went down to the Super Bowl Media Day just to observe yesterday and I literally wanted to throw up watching grown men throw themselves at players or former players and coaches for 3 hours. It was sickening bruh! For the first time the NFL allowed fans to sit in the stands and watch media day. They even gave everyone that entered the stadium a really nice back pack with all kinds of cool stuff in it. They even gave away small radios to listen to each particular interview as it was being conducted.

The problem was, I felt like I was at a Justin Beiber concert and the little girls were about to bum rush the stage and pull his hair! However, the little girls that were there with their parents weren't the ones that were out of line. It was their fathers. Grown men were literally screaming Tom Brady's name and reaching out for him. Anytime Deion or Mike Irving walked by they would lose their freaking minds.

There was literally a guy walking around with a full Tom Brady uniform on, pads included playboy! I mean he had on knee, thigh, shoulder and hip pads topped off with eye black and the signal caller’s wrist band with plays on it! Where was Chris Carter when I needed him? C'Mon Man!

Kurt Warner comes in to do his job on the NFL Network and as he's walking up some grown man just starts screaming his name like right in front of him. Now C'mon bruh, do you really think he's going to stop and have a conversation with you acting like that?

I went over to the media hotel later to holler at some friends of mine and people were literally chasing guys down in the lobby for autographs. As I sat there talking I began to watch it all play out. Now some guys were hustling to get autographs for memorabilia that they would be selling for their stores. It’s shady because they're getting something for free and then selling it for a huge profit but I get the hustle.

Most people were just annoying groupies though! I saw Eddy George walk in looking for the rest room. It literally took him a half hour to use it because every third step he was mobbed by some grown man or woman for a picture or an autograph while he's telling them that he's trying to go to the washroom. Now if he had just kept walking he would have been labeled as a jerk and that wouldn't have been cool.

It got so bad that NFL security had to escort people off of the property bruh! I'm not talking about kids that were excited to see former players and coaches. I'm talking about adults and 90% of them by the way were wearing jerseys. I should teach a class on "How not to play yourself 101."

Now last night the real groupies were out in full effect at the Pacers game! They were on the hunt for professional athlete and some were successful in reeling a few boyz in. There were some Patriots and Giants in the building that I would bet a few nickels and dimes barely made curfew last night.


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