Giants’ Leonard Williams not happy with booing fans: ‘I don’t like that’
New York Giants head coach Joe Judge has repeatedly stated that home fans have paid for the right to boo and it’s on the team to prevent that from happening.
A 38-11 loss to the Los Angeles Rams on Sunday certainly didn’t plug that hole. Rather, it just added more fuel to the fire for long-suffering, wildly frustrated MetLife Stadium fans.
Beginning in the second quarter, a steady chorus of boos could be heard until the stadium began emptying out. By the fourth quarter, less than half the seats remained filled but for those who stayed (and weren’t Rams fans, who were in abundance), the booing continued.
That didn’t sit will with defensive lineman Leonard Williams, who admits he’s tired of hearing it.
“They do bother me, honestly. Obviously, we’re in our own home stadium. I don’t want to be hearing boos from my own fans,” Williams told reporters. “I understand that they have a right to be upset as well because they’re coming to see us put good football on the field. We haven’t been winning up to date. But at the same time, I don’t know, I don’t like that.”
Williams feels the booing is paramount to disrespect. He believes no one should be put down for any reason, and that’s precisely what the Giants fans are doing to the players.
“I don’t think anyone deserves to be put down no matter who you are,” Williams added. “I’m not going to go to a salesman and tell him that he’s not a good person or ‘boo’ this person because he’s not doing his job or something like that.”
To the credit of the reporters, they fired back at Williams and called his analogy “laughable.” And if that’s not a microcosm of where this organization currently stands, we don’t know what is.
“It doesn’t matter what I think. I go out there to play football. I don’t sit in the stands, so I can’t see it from their perspective,” Williams said.
Williams has been around losing so long — both with the Giants and previously with the New York Jets — that he’s become immune to it and the impact it has on the fans. And that’s a major issue with Joe Judge’s squad — they’re so used to losing that it no longer phases them to be a laughingstock.
