"I'm Out, Bro" - Ultimate Team Guy Tyreek Hill Demands A Trade While The Dolphins' Dead Body Is Still Warm
"I just gotta do what's best for me and my family, dawg. If that's here or that's wherever the case may be, man. I'm finna open that door for myself, dawg...I'm out, bro. It was great playing here, but at the end of the day I gotta do what's best for my career. Because I'm too much of a competitor to be, ya know, just out there".
The Miami Dolphins' season had been dead for maybe 35 minutes before Tyreek Hill decided to take a quick little piss on the corpse just laying in the street. And listen, I get it. You lose to the New York Jets when your playoff hopes are on the line, I think anybody would avoid getting back on that team charter back to Miami. But the custodial workers were still cleaning up the stadium, and the parking lots were still backed up with fans trying to leave while Tyreek Hill declared that his time in Miami was up. He may have started off with the classic political "if that's here or anywhere else" when talking about the future of his career. And most guys would opt to just keep it at that. But when you move as fast as Tyreek Hill does, that lasted all of about 12 seconds. He was gone for good in the next sentence.
Post-game interviews from the locker room after a team's season wrapped up are always so interesting because you get a chance to see how different all these athletes think. For example, it seems like the main thing most NBA players are going to focus on after a season ends is that next contract they're about to sign. Once they get the contract, then nothing else matters. NFL players are still ultra competitive and they truly care about winning. But at the end of the day, they are just mercenaries for higher. They want to win and get paid, but they don't care who they win with. The jersey and helmet they are wearing means nothing to them at the end of the day. Hockey players get drafted to a team and you'd think they'd rather get murdered on the spot than bail on their team.
At the end of the day, it's a business. Team owners and general managers never have any qualms with making business decisions. You'd always think that the athletes themselves with have a little more loyalty, but they have to treat it as a business as well. So if business isn't booming in Miami for Tyreek Hill? Well he said it himself--"I'm out, bro".
It just makes you start to realize you might want to start making business decisions as fans. It's a business decision to not get too attached to the athletes on your favorite team, because they could be gone at any moment. You buy a Tyreek Hill jersey in week 11 after the Dolphins rip off 3 wins in a row. By the time it finally gets delivered to your doorstep, it's just in time for week 18. You wear it for one miserable game watching the Dolphins lose to the Jets, and Tyreek is a goner. A couple hundred out the door all because you forgot this was a business. Just something to consider.