So yall really writing think pieces on a grown, incredibly fit, star football player shoving and yelling in the face of his much less physically fit, about twice his age coach and done with such violence that his own teammates, who play a pretty aggressive and violent sport, were in a state of discomfort by the whole interaction?
Like yall really trying to twist yourselves into a pretzel to make us doubt our own eyes???
This ain’t about Andy downplaying getting his shit rocked on National television, he has the right to be like it “oh he makes me feel young and I know him…”
He like it, I love it.
But call it what the hell it was. This wasn’t passion. It was violent. And he probably does feel bad. He probably is apologetic. He probably did regret it right after he did it.
It was still violent.
And I really just read a post that likened the situation to their autistic child having meltdowns and not controlling their emotions and it really was a long piece that excused Kelce because their autistic child struggles with behavior management and it doesn’t make them a bad person. They should not be cast in such a bad light.
And this is where I gotta split from some of the advocacy in this community. We aren’t afforded the benefit of youth. My children were cast as way older than what they were when they were six. We don’t get to have our behaviors explained away. Be we autistic or not. That ain’t how this world works for us.
Having said that, my children have the ability to hurt ppl. Same as I do. And the ppl on the receiving end of that hurt deserve to feel the full weight of the harm that came to them. Doesn’t mean the offending party doesn’t feel bad. Doesn’t mean they aren’t remorseful. But nobody should swallow pain because ill intent wasn’t there.
That man ain’t about to talk bad about their star player in a league that fires coaches and coordinators with winning seasons. I ain’t saying he lying about being okay with his player laying their hands on him, I’m saying the pressure to be okay with them putting their hands on him is something that can’t be ignored.
Andy “cool with it.” Dude “makes him feel young,” which is a such a nonsensical thing to say in relation to this situation, but he aint me. And I aint him. I aint about to be more upset about his harm than he is.
Yall can be okay with the violence we all witnessed in real time. Yall can excuse it away. Write think pieces…
Just don’t play in our faces and call it anything than what it was, violent.
Is he a good person? Shit if I know. And don’t care. I’m talking about that specific moment in time, in his life, that we all saw, that so many are doing whatever they can to convince us that we didn’t see what the fuck we saw.
I mean, how about you live your life in such a way that ppl ain’t having to write think pieces dissecting your behavior and trying to convince the rest of the world that you are indeed, a good person?
Kept it short and cute today.