Come on. When have I ever told people to simply do as I say, not as I do? I simply ask people not to insult each other or the site’s writers. You can call a suggestion or an opinion I make ‘silly’ or ‘dumb’ or ‘idiotic’ as long as you back it up with reasons WHY? Simply saying ’that’s dumb,’ and offering no real reasoning is a reader just being an ass. Maybe, to you, that’s me randomly ‘insulting’ someone. to me, that’s a person who is just trolling.
 
And don’t ask me to explain the difference between calling an idea I suggest ‘dumb’ and calling me personally ‘dumb.’ I simply ask that people don’t insult each other, or the writers here, based solely on an opinion. How hard is that?

Regarding ‘boring’ newspapers and libel, just like them I too can be sued for such things. I haven’t. Know why? Because I haven’t done it. I guess Pat McAfee could sue me for libel or slander or something because this is a ‘free’ country and all. He didn’t. Know why? Because he knew he’d lose. Know why?

Because no one misrepresented him, or misquoted him, or mis-anythinged him.

I wrote an opinion article based off a Tweet he made. He didn’t like that opinion, got mad, and started spouting a bunch of silly nonsense that no one took too seriously, save some crazy fans here who hang on the words of players they’ve never met. Nothing more than to it than that.

Now, as I believe I mentioned in one of my follow-up articles to this, things happened behind the scenes prior to Pat’s explosion on Twitter that I promised Pat I would never mention on this blog. You’ll just have to take my word on that.

Regarding Robert Mathis, the funny thing about his little rant was no one listened to him. I still have access to many player’s Tweets. Robert is a good guy, but he is a bit over-sensitive. He reads Stampede Blue all the time, and loves it when we write good stuff about him. He then gets really pissed when we, you know, call him out on the fact he got his butt dominated by a no-name Saints right tackle in Super Bowl 44. Like many players, he doesn’t like it when people write critical things about him and his team. He’s protective.

But, the paradox here is being critical is kind of what we bloggers do.

We love guys like Pat, Robert, and most Colts players. But, we aren’t unpaid PR managers here. When they do good, we cheer for them. When you screw up, we call them out. Most of the time, players don’t care is random fans make critical observations. however, because Stampede Blue is so widely read and talked about, Colts players are damn near paranoid as to what we write about them.