Richie Incognito takes his turn ripping St. Louis Rams fans
Two years ago, it was Steven Jackson who jumped on Rams fans for selling their tickets to Bears supporters. “I have a big problem with that,” Jackson said. “There were a lot of Bears fans in sections they shouldn’t have been. . . . When we ran out in pregame, we were booed. It was terrible. I couldn’t believe it. To be at home and feel like I’m at a road game, it was just embarrassing.”
Now, with the Bears — and their legions of fans — coming to the Edward Jones Dome on Sunday, Richie Incognito piped up.
“It seems like our fans aren’t coming to the game, so it’s fun when the other fans come in and start hooting and hollering. At least someone is in the Dome yelling,” Incognito said after practice Thursday. “When we played the Giants (Sept. 14 at the Dome), they had the whole lower bowl filled up (with Giants fans). We know how our fans feel about us; that’s fine.
“It’s nice to have the other fans here. At least they cheer. Our fans get in their seats, they don’t know how to cheer, when to cheer. We get the other team’s fans coming in, and they cheer real nice for us. It provides for a good football atmosphere, having the Chicago fans down here.”
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Notes & quotes:
*Incognito (shoulder) was a full participant in practice and, barring a setback, will start at RG on Sunday. Still, coach Jim Haslett would like to get rookie John Greco some reps in the game.
*Jackson said that his strained thigh muscle is feeling better and that the plan is to have him go through a demanding workout Saturday, then see how it responds. He’s hopeful that he’ll be able to return Nov. 30 vs. Miami.
*Thursday’s practice was unusually physical. “That’s how this game’s going to have to be played this week,” Haslett said.
All for now . . .
I don’t know anybody that wants to buy my season tickets, heck I can’t even usually give them away.
Keep BLINDLY supporting the Rams and maybe they’ll pay you off with another decade of bad football. The only way you’ll get change is by making your voice heard. I’ve never sold my tickets to another team’s fans. All I do is go to the games every year, spend my money and cheer. This is the payoff I get. A football team that rolls over and plays dead, flat out quits, and some big mouth offensive lineman blaming me, the fan, for the teams bad play. I’m tired of S.J & R.I blaming the fans. As a side note I’ve gotta say that Bill Coats really riled my feathers with the title of his article “Incognito Rips Rams Fans”, “Fans Blasted”…thanks Bill, job well done.
Coming from one of the most irrelevant members of one of the worst offensive lines in the league, his comments carry no weight.
Incognito should worry about his anger management class and make sure he has his homework done. It’s unblievable the loudest mounths are the one that cause the most trouble. Jackson should have come to camp and maybe he would have been in better shape. All these clowns think they run the show but do not realize without the fans they are nothing.
All you corporate stiff shirts of St. Louis Rams ticket season holder that go to the game and just sit in your $100.00 seats please sell your tickets. So the other teams real fans can buy you $100.00 ticket and show you how real fans stand behind there team win or lose. Go buy Cardinal season ticket and be boring over at there stadium! It’s about time someone told you fans that your not real fans just fair weather fans, that easy to stand behind your team when there winning! I could count on my fingers and toes how many real rams fans are standing!
Richie is one of the biggest trolls on the team. I sorry but the guy can’t passblock worth crap, has anger management issues, and will be off this team soon. Big wuss and take Alice Barron with you. Two loser on the OL will be addition by subtraction!
Richie Incognito has to go down as one of the all-time boneheads to play in the NFL. If he could carry out his blocks as well as he runs his mouth, he would be an all-pro.
Hey Richie !
There just angry beacuse they spent a $100.00 a ticket and they still have not learned how to cheer for there hometown team. We love you style of play! We should have 5 more guys like you! Thanks for helping Steven Jackson, Torry Holt and Mark Bulger get to the pro bowl in 2006. We missed you last year! You see I’m a real fan of yours and I know that without you on the line we would be really awlful. Thanks for putting up with a few bonehead people here in St. Louis. There two busy talking baseball at the game to realize that you are a big play maker. I can understand you fustration playing here in St. Louis because I sit in a section at the games 8 times a year and someone is always telling me to sit down they think there are at the opera. Sunday I will cheer you on! Good LucK Sunday!
Rams fans cheer when something happens on the field that generates an emotion. Maybe I am not as old fashioned as some “true” football fans, but I had season tickets for the first 9 years the Rams were here and still watch them on Sunday Ticket from out of town. I like to believe that I am not one of the mindless chimps that is expected to bang my cymbal when douche bags like Incompetent spouts off in the paper. I couldn’t give 2 craps what he thinks about much of anything. We pay money to watch. When he pays money to play, he can explain his rules to me. People saying he is the best player on the offensive line this year is like saying Ted Bundy is my favorite serial killer. Maybe we can cut out the emotion part and put shock buzzers in all the seats so when Inconsistent thinks we should jump up, he can just press a button. Then dickless wonders like Slaten and others posting can tell all their friends in other cities that we are just as well trained by Billion Dollar Team Owners as they are. Or maybe they could just try a little harder.
The way Incognito went about calling out the fans was wrong. He made it seem like the team was actually playing decent football, but at the same time I do think it’s wrong how Rams fans have turned on the team. It seems that whenever a St. Louis team struggles the majority of the fans turn their back on them. We are supposed to be some of the best fans in the world. I will never forget game 4 of the 2004 World Series when you could hear all the Redsox chants in Busch. Do you think our biggest rival the fans of Chicago would have been doing that to the Cubs, Whitesox, or Bears?