Derek Anderson already has apologized for calling Cleveland Browns fans “ruthless,” which seems to me like apologizing for calling water wet. First, Anderson’s remarks:
“The fans are ruthless and don’t deserve a winner,” Anderson wrote Tuesday in a terse e-mail when asked for a reaction to being released. “I will never forget getting cheered when I was injured.
“I know at times I wasn’t great. I hope and pray I’m playing when my team comes to town and (we) roll them.”
And the apology:
“I said some things to [News-Herald reporter] Jeff Schudel earlier that I regret,” Anderson said. “Those of you who got to know me personally from covering the Browns over the past five years, know this was out of character for me. I wasn’t taken out of context, but I was speaking out of frustration after my career with the Browns came to a close.[..]
“I’m looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life.” –ESPN.
Whatever. Dude’s allowed to be upset about losing his job. What Anderson said wasn’t nearly as ridiculous as this comment from a Carolina Panthers blog who wondered about the team’s chances of acquiring the one-time Pro Bowler:
Honestly I didn’t see anything negative outside of the 40% completion percentage and INT’s.
Now that you mention it, neither do I.
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Yeah and if not the for the mustache and the penis, America Ferrera would be a pretty hot chick.
Luckily for Anderson, Browns fans can’t read, nor are they thin enough to exit their houses.
There was nothing wrong with the original Browns that moving to a different city didn’t fix.
I love what he said. What should he have said? “I treasure the moments I had with the fans, like when they cheered that I got hurt. Also, when I come to Cleveland with a new team, I hope that my new team gets destroyed.”
I guess I’d be pissed if I was a Browns fan, but that might just be because I’d be from Cleveland and who wouldn’t be pissed about that? Kudos for saying someting real, Derek. You can be my third-string clipboard holder anyday. Just stay off the field.
I don’t understand the apology. You have to appease the fans of the team that dumped you?
@Brandon, Punte – I finally listened to a House of Punte podcast and it was pretty good, but goddamn, the eating on air is repulsive.
I swear to God I will never eat during a show again.
Horse Balls keeps it real…until he doesn’t. Be a man and call those neanderthals out.
I’ll certainly treasure his 90 mph screen passes and his sub 45% completion percentage. What a fucking stiff.
Yeah fuck this guy. See what fans of your next team will do when you just throw the fuckin ball up for grabs 50 yards downfield.
At times I wasn’t great. What a fuckin comedian.
“Honestly I don’t see anything negative outside of that American plane flying overhead.”
Hiroshi Yamamoto, August 6, 1945, 8:14 a.m.
Ummm . . . I’m pretty sure that comment by the Panthers guy was sarcasm.