When James Walker Attacks: The Narcissism Of Fan-Deprecating Love

Never do I agree with what he writes or does he accurately depict what is actually going on with the team or it’s fans. He is a hypocrite because his M.O. is jumping on the bandwagon of winning AFC North teams and slamming the teams that are losing. So what does he do special? Nothing. Jungle is the place.

maybe bengals fans dont comment because they dont read the dumb shit he posts. is it really a smart thing to bash the people you rely on to make a living. its unprofessional and just idiotic

I read that blog the other day. Just because some Bengals fans start talking shit when we win a few games doesn’t mean every Bengals fan is like that. That is as narrow minded as saying that just because some people in an ethnic group are assholes, the whole race is like that. What he is saying sounds like bigotry to me and someone should report his ass.

I personally never talk shit to other teams fans because it is low class. Now if you know for a fact your team can back it up that is one thing, or if you have won multiple Super Bowls. We haven’t won anything consistently in the past 20 years to warrant trash talk.

Any fan from another team that comes on to our website and talks shit probably has no life to begin with and they are so pathetic that they don’t even warrant a response anyway. This is usually done by Pittsburg and Baltimore fans (most of them are bandwagon fans anyways) who feel the need to make up for their intellectual deficiencies, and microscopic phallus’ by using their team to boost their low self-esteem.

The rest of them only write superficial crap anyways. Who cares what James Walkers opinion is? What makes him an expert at football or anything for that matter? His writing and researching skills are below average at best, and he just waits until someone else has written the story, then plagiarizes what someone else says. The guy is a douche.

…can’t deal with his own begrudgery. Maybe he has issues over his time as a beat reporter in Cincinnati. It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Bengals fans have no time for him. He’s not worth it.

This is somewhat maddening.

First off, a lack of chest-puffing statements about how great our team is (when they’re not, at least right now) doesn’t automatically imply a lack of support. At least not to me.

I would think as a blog attached to a major sports media outlet (ESPN), he would welcome visitors and input to his site, good bad or indifferent. To tear down a fanbase for how they are or aren’t responding? I would rather he focus on giving us information, than measuring how much fan mail he gets out loud.

Most of all, he calls out Bengals fans for not talking trash, for not making bravado statements, then turns around and weekly gives a spotlight to the MOST OUTRAGEOUS commenter of the week? Seriously, it’s a segment called “AFC North Homer of the Week”. and it’s usually accompanied by some breakdown of how wacky or crazy Fan X is for saying such outlandish things!

Which one is it? Do you want us to be vocal and passionate, to provide him with content and material, or to shut up and wait for the season to end, so we can properly assess how we (obviously) should have felt from the beginning?

With posts written like this one, it’s no wonder why this is the best blog site on the net. Maybe Walker needs to learn how to write first. At least write something that would be interesting. Maybe, Walker needs to be schooled by someone such as yourself, as to how to spark interest in fans. He’s a used up douche!

Walker joined ESPN.com in 2008 after three seasons covering the Cleveland Browns for the Columbus Dispatch. He also covered the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Cavaliers at the Dispatch. Walker grew up in Hyattsville, Md., before attending Temple University, graduating with a B.A. in communications and mass media. He resides in the Cleveland area.