With a new NFL calendar year in full swing, dozens of players have already lost their jobs and will find themselves looking for work in the coming days, weeks and months. Martellus Bennett wants fans to stop mocking those players.
In a lengthy Twitter rant on Tuesday, Bennett blasted fans for “dehumanizing” professional athletes and chastising them when they hit the unemployment line.
It’s always funny and sad how fans ridicule players after they lose their jobs. Get cut, injury or traded. You would never do that to another person who loses a job. Dehumanizing athletes as if they aren’t real with families or struggles like others
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) March 13, 2018
Hahaha. You don’t have a job. Lol. I hope you never get a job or play again. Lmfao. It’s funny just writing that out.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) March 13, 2018
Not saying an athlete wants your sympathy. As sympathy is easy. We can all sympathize the real emotion that the world seems to be missing these days is EMPATHY. There’s a huge difference.
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) March 13, 2018
They earned that money. It’s not their fault. So you think is ok to dehumanize someone because they have money? But if they were broke you wouldn’t do it? Is that logic here? https://t.co/wv2q6E7NkB
— Martellus Bennett (@MartysaurusRex) March 13, 2018
Of course, many of Bennett’s followers fired back by pointing out that an NFL player might find himself unemployed a year after making $10 million, which is more than most people will make in an entire lifetime at their jobs.
Bennett has struggled with injuries over the past two seasons, so the topic is probably a little more sensitive for him. He was recently released by the New England Patriots, and it remains unclear if he plans to play in 2018.
