Was it wrong to cheer Cassel getting hurt?

[Deberg_1990]

810 playing sound bite of Winston pissed off about it and defending Cassel.

Dude is pissed at fans cheering....calls it disgusting......

Says hes never seen fans cheer a guy getting hurt.

[BigMeatballDave]

Originally Posted by doomy3

Completely embarrassing for fans to cheer Cassel's injury. Not surprising, but definitely embarrassing. Even Ravens players said as much. I don't see people knocking Charles about speaking up about it either, but he wasn't happy about the fans' reaction.

How do you know they weren't cheering for Quinn to come in?

And WTF do you mean by 'not surprising'?

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by doomy3

Completely embarrassing for fans to cheer Cassel's injury. Not surprising, but definitely embarrassing. Even Ravens players said as much. I don't see people knocking Charles about speaking up about it either, but he wasn't happy about the fans' reaction.

What did he say? Link? Glad it's not just Winston.

[jspchief]

I watch everything KC does with apathy, so I guess Winston can be thankful for that.

[King_Chief_Fan]

Winston is right

[WV]

I'm ready to be rid of him as much as anyone else, but it should not have been cheered.

[NewChief]

Having been a family member and been sitting with even closer family members (mom, kids, spouse) when a player gets injured: **** yes. It's wrong and shitty. That being said, it's a sad symptom of this organization continuously putting Cassel out there.

[doomy3]

Originally Posted by Dave

How do you know they weren't cheering for Quinn to come in?

And WTF do you mean by 'not surprising'?

I was at the game, and it was pretty clear they were cheering for Cassel to be injured. Of course, Cassel being injured and Quinn entering are connected. There was very loud ovation when Cassel was down on the ground injured and then a second loud ovation when Quinn was coming in.

One of the first posts in this thread wishes for permanent brain damage. I think it's pretty clear what I mean by not surprising if you read posts on this board.

Also, it isn't surprising that fans are acting like this given the amount of frustration. It doesn't make it any classier, but it is what it is.

[doomy3]

Originally Posted by memyselfI

What did he say? Link? Glad it's not just Winston.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/chiefs-...3743--nfl.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Members of the Kansas City Chiefs angrily spoke out Sunday against thousands of fans who cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel left a 9-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens with a head injury.
Cassel has been the focus of frustrated fans for the past couple years, many of them booing him when he appeared during a celebrity softball game this summer. Some had even hired an airplane to fly over Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday with a banner asking for him to be benched.
The angst reached a tipping point when Cassel, who committed four turnovers against Baltimore, was hammered by the Ravens' Haloti Ngata while completing a pass in the fourth quarter.
Cassel remained on his back for several minutes while fans began to cheer. He eventually got to his feet with some help and walked off the field under his own power.
''It's 100-percent sickening,'' Chiefs tackle Eric Winston said. ''I've never, ever - and I've been in some rough times on some rough teams - I've never been more embarrassed in my life to play football than at that moment right there. I get emotional about it because these guys, they work their butts off. Matt Cassel hasn't done anything to you people.
''Hey, if he's not the best quarterback, he's not the best quarterback, and that's OK, but he's a person,'' Winston continued, the big offensive lineman's voice slowly rising. ''And he got knocked out in a game and we've got 70,000 people cheering that he got knocked out.''
The Chiefs have only said that Cassel has a ''head injury,'' and coach Romeo Crennel said he wasn't sure whether he'd been taken to a hospital. Brady Quinn finished the game.
''We are not gladiators and this is not the Roman Colosseum. This is a game,'' said Winston, who spoke to Cassel briefly in the locker room after the game. ''This is a game that's going to cost us a lot down the road. That's OK. We picked it. We deserve it. I don't want your pity. But we've got a lot of problems as a society if people think that's OK.''
Cassel was intercepted twice by the Ravens, though both passes were tipped. He was also hit with two lost fumbles, one of them on a pitch that was mishandled by running back Cyrus Gray and the other on a flubbed exchange with Kansas City facing first-and-goal at the Baltimore 1.
''It's not right, you know what I'm saying? I'll speak that for any stadium, any player to get hurt,'' said Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles, who missed most of last season with a torn ACL.
''When someone gets booed, it's not right. It's his health. You know what I'm saying? He got hurt. You have to respect,'' Charles said. ''It wasn't right that he got booed.''
Once a Pro Bowl quarterback, Cassel is completing just 58.5 percent of his passes with five touchdowns and nine interceptions. He's averaging just 6.5 yards per pass attempt.
''I knew I hit him hard, but I didn't think it was hard enough to take him out. I thought I hit him right in the ribs,'' Ngata said. ''Hopefully, he bounces back and gets better.''
As for the cheering? Even the Ravens thought it uncouth.
''For them to cheer for him being hurt,'' Ngata said, ''that's just not cool.''

[hometeam]

Yes it was wrong to cheer him being hurt.

That just goes to show how fans feel about this team. They are so fed up with it that some abandon human decency. People DO have a breaking point.

Again, not the right thing to do. But if you cannot see why it happened your wearing blinders

[KChiefer]

Christ, ppl are acting like Cassel had to have an emergency tracheotomy. If Cassel had walked off with a broken pinky, would everyone be so appalled by the fans cheering? The fans were happy he was leaving the game, the truth hurts.

[memyselfI]

Originally Posted by doomy3

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/chiefs-...3743--nfl.html

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Members of the Kansas City Chiefs angrily spoke out Sunday against thousands of fans who cheered when quarterback Matt Cassel left a 9-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens with a head injury.
Cassel has been the focus of frustrated fans for the past couple years, many of them booing him when he appeared during a celebrity softball game this summer. Some had even hired an airplane to fly over Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday with a banner asking for him to be benched.
The angst reached a tipping point when Cassel, who committed four turnovers against Baltimore, was hammered by the Ravens' Haloti Ngata while completing a pass in the fourth quarter.
Cassel remained on his back for several minutes while fans began to cheer. He eventually got to his feet with some help and walked off the field under his own power.
''It's 100-percent sickening,'' Chiefs tackle Eric Winston said. ''I've never, ever - and I've been in some rough times on some rough teams - I've never been more embarrassed in my life to play football than at that moment right there. I get emotional about it because these guys, they work their butts off. Matt Cassel hasn't done anything to you people.
''Hey, if he's not the best quarterback, he's not the best quarterback, and that's OK, but he's a person,'' Winston continued, the big offensive lineman's voice slowly rising. ''And he got knocked out in a game and we've got 70,000 people cheering that he got knocked out.''
The Chiefs have only said that Cassel has a ''head injury,'' and coach Romeo Crennel said he wasn't sure whether he'd been taken to a hospital. Brady Quinn finished the game.
''We are not gladiators and this is not the Roman Colosseum. This is a game,'' said Winston, who spoke to Cassel briefly in the locker room after the game. ''This is a game that's going to cost us a lot down the road. That's OK. We picked it. We deserve it. I don't want your pity. But we've got a lot of problems as a society if people think that's OK.''
Cassel was intercepted twice by the Ravens, though both passes were tipped. He was also hit with two lost fumbles, one of them on a pitch that was mishandled by running back Cyrus Gray and the other on a flubbed exchange with Kansas City facing first-and-goal at the Baltimore 1.
''It's not right, you know what I'm saying? I'll speak that for any stadium, any player to get hurt,'' said Chiefs running back Jamaal Charles, who missed most of last season with a torn ACL.
''When someone gets booed, it's not right. It's his health. You know what I'm saying? He got hurt. You have to respect,'' Charles said. ''It wasn't right that he got booed.''
Once a Pro Bowl quarterback, Cassel is completing just 58.5 percent of his passes with five touchdowns and nine interceptions. He's averaging just 6.5 yards per pass attempt.
''I knew I hit him hard, but I didn't think it was hard enough to take him out. I thought I hit him right in the ribs,'' Ngata said. ''Hopefully, he bounces back and gets better.''
As for the cheering? Even the Ravens thought it uncouth.
''For them to cheer for him being hurt,'' Ngata said, ''that's just not cool.''

Thank you. I'm going to post thank you tweets to every single player who speaks out against this on both teams.

[doomy3]

Originally Posted by KChiefer

Christ, ppl are acting like Cassel had to have an emergency tracheotomy. If Cassel had walked off with a broken pinky, would everyone be so appalled by the fans cheering? The fans were happy he was leaving the game, the truth hurts.

What if he was carried out on a stretcher after the fans were cheering him being hurt? Hypotheticals work both ways.

[Crush]

Who knew Castle had so many white knights?

[doomy3]

Originally Posted by Crush

Who knew Castle had so many white knights?

Yeah, who knew?

Guys who paid $50 to have a banner flown to have him removed as QB, yet are rational enough to understand that cheering one of your own players' injuries is terrible form.

And things like that get noticed across the league, by other players, potential FAs, etc.

[R8RFAN]

Originally Posted by Crush

**** Winston. We can only hope that Cassel has permanent brain damage.

Oh that's rich right there Dude that shit is way beyond football.