Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Jacobs slams fantasy football after getting death threat

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Brandon Jacobs isn’t in a forgiving mood with the Twitter user who threatened his life.




Brandon Jacobs doesn’t play fantasy football. But he did have a fantasy back in August.


“My only fantasy was I want to go back with the Giants,” Jacobs said. “That was my fantasy football.”


And Jacobs doesn’t care about anyone else’s fantasy football hopes, something he made expressly clear Wednesday, one day after he had tweeted that he received a death threat on Twitter because he didn’t suit up on Monday night.


Jacobs said the threat he received from @DMMeBoo was “just a kid being dumb,” and he hasn’t taken any precautions because of it. He received several apologies hours later, but he said he was hardly satisfied.


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“When you say stuff like that and think it’s a joke, it’s a problem,” Jacobs said. “It’s a good thing he was where he was at that time.”


But there’s nothing good about fantasy football, Jacobs added, and he called the craze a “huge problem.”


“That’s all people ever talk about,” Jacobs said. “You sit down to eat at a restaurant and people say, ‘Hey you, I got you on my fantasy team, you gotta do something for me.’ Come on, I’m trying to enjoy my dinner.


“Players don’t want to hear anything about fantasy football,” he added. “We’re not living fantasy football. As far as anything else, we don’t owe anybody.”


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Brandon Jacobs calls fantasy football a 'huge problem,' saying it's 'all people ever talk about.'


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Brandon Jacobs calls fantasy football a ‘huge problem,’ saying it’s ‘all people ever talk about.’


Giants corner Terrell Thomas, an avid fantasy football fan, said he “can understand” the fantasy sports aspect. But he agreed with Jacobs’ feelings about Twitter. Thomas said he’s gotten some “pretty bad” tweets from followers as well, but he’s never had a threat “that they’re going to kill me or anything.”


“I just block it,” Thomas said. “That’s all you can do.”


Thomas added that fans in general seem to forget that there’s more to life than sports, and he recalled how several fans reportedly confronted Texans quarterback Matt Schaub’s at his house in early October, leading Schaub to contact NFL security.


“A guy like Matt Schaub, people come to your house . . . I would have came out with a bat,” Thomas said. “You never know these days how much these fans take these games so serious. They don’t understand this is our job.


“We love it, we put our heart and soul into it. But this is just our job. When we are done, we go home to our kids and our family, just like you.”





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