Wide Receiver / Diva

[Rocket94]

High maintenance, insecure, needy and demonstrative!

[stinky finger]

2 minutes ago, Rocket94 said:

High maintenance, insecure, needy and demonstrative!

 

you rang?

[Rocket94]

Just now, inaugural balls said:

 

you rang?

I was defining Diva

2 minutes ago, inaugural balls said:

 

you rang?

That does sound like an add!

[stinky finger]

6 minutes ago, Rocket94 said:

I was defining Diva

 

I know. 

12 minutes ago, Rocket94 said:

I was defining Diva

That does sound like an add!

 

I was channeling my inner Lurch.

[LSHMEAB]

2 hours ago, C.Biscuit97 said:

I mean the blue collar stuff gets old but AB is a crazy person.  SJ has some flash but I think was an awesome Bill.  

 

And this is is where I bring up wanting to draft JuJu who seems to have the perfect attitude. But we traded up for Zay so it worked out. 

SJ as in Stevie? Yeah, his personality was awesome. He had the perfect amount of swag. I'd like to see more of that to be perfectly honest. Not celebrating is the most overrated virtue in sports. I prefer to see the players having fun if they do something right.

[RocCityRoller]

3 hours ago, Jrb1979 said:

Buffalo needs to get over the lunch pail, Blue collar mindset. A guy like AB would do wonders for their receiving core. 

 

I'd rather try to find an AJ Green, Deandre Hopkins type of WR. Go to work, get it done and present yourself with some dignity.

[LSHMEAB]

3 hours ago, msw2112 said:

I think that WR's (and to an extent DBs) tend to be divas is because they are usually the fastest players on the team, the most athletic and have the most "quick twitch" ability.  They are the ones who make the acrobatic catches and catch the long bombs.  Chicks dig the long ball.  They are used to getting the most adoration and don't like to be out-shined by others.

 

As bad as some of these guys are, they are counterbalanced by the classy guys like Larry Fitzgerald.  Going back a few years, Jerry Rice - perhaps the greatest WR of all time - was a classy guy.  Our own HOF'er Andre Reed was also a class act.

Then you have Marvin Harrison, who was universally admired for his "professionalism" doing all sorts of REAL criminal activity. Point being, don't judge a human being by their on field "flamboyance" or lack there of.

[msw2112]

5 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:

Then you have Marvin Harrison, who was universally admired for his "professionalism" doing all sorts of REAL criminal activity. Point being, don't judge a human being by their on field "flamboyance" or lack there of.

 

I live in Arizona and can attest that Larry Fitzgerald is a class act, on and off the field.  He's a huge part of the community.  I met Andre Reed a few years ago, and one of my best friends just met him a few months ago at a charity benefit in Philly.  Great guy, all class.  I have never met Jerry Rice and don't know anyone who has, so I cannot personally attest to his character.  He certainly comes off in the media as a class act and I would bet he is not involved in any illicit illegal activity.  So I disagree with your assessment of my comments.  

 

Further, Antonio Brown and TO, by way of example, are not only "flamboyant" on the field, but have shown to be total asshats off the field.

 

Marvin Harrison is an obvious exception.  I'll give you that one.

[JaCrispy]

14 hours ago, Blue on Blue said:

Barbara Streisand is a diva.  All I know about Whitney Houston is that she sang the anthem at the Bills first Super Bowl,  and that she's not singing at Super Bowls any more.

I will throw in Mariah Carey as a diva, as well

14 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

What the hell is a diva?  Whitney Houston?

A diva is a person who believes the entire world revolves around them...and uses constant nagging and bitching to create drama, overshadowing every situation they are involved in.

[Johnny Hammersticks]

1 hour ago, JaCrispy said:

 

A diva is a person who believes the entire world revolves around them...and uses constant nagging and bitching to create drama, overshadowing every situation they are involved in.

 

Ahhhh I see....so like my 5 year old daughter?

[JaCrispy]

13 minutes ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

 

Ahhhh I see....so like my 5 year old daughter?

Sorry to hear about that Johnny...best of luck with luck with that...and just remember, what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. ?

[Heavy Kevi]

17 hours ago, Blue on Blue said:

Divas, themselves, bore me to tears, but it fascinates me that we associate 'diva' with 'wide receiver'.

 

Does playing WR turn a man into a diva?  Or do natural born divas somehow gravitate towards wide receiver?

 

As a rabid Bills fan, but a casual fan of football at large, I don't keep track of all the melodrama in the NFL.  So I am sure there are divas at other positions in the league.  But the prominent ones -- T.O., A.B., O.B.J -- all play the same position.  Why is that?
 

 

 

My theory on why WR are divas (and often little b-words) is this:

 

They are really the only position on the field that is completely dependent on another player (qb). Every other position can "do their job" and put good play on tape on their own. Not WRs... They need a productive QB just to look serviceable, and a good QB to look great.

 

My $.02

[row_33]

13 hours ago, LSHMEAB said:

SJ as in Stevie? Yeah, his personality was awesome. He had the perfect amount of swag. I'd like to see more of that to be perfectly honest. Not celebrating is the most overrated virtue in sports. I prefer to see the players having fun if they do something right.

 

when was something done right?

 

been a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time............

[LeGOATski]

17 hours ago, Johnny Hammersticks said:

What the hell is a diva?  Whitney Houston?

Yeah

 

She was a great receiver

[row_33]

11 minutes ago, LeGOATski said:

Yeah

 

She was a great receiver

 

might as well have been out there for the results