[Reginald Rutledge]

In the past, when guys have "attacked me", on occasions, I've just let it go. I know it goes with the territory. But I am not sure my response back to a coach using my name or my response and those afterwards is what fueled everything, I am not sure. But I do know one thing, I am tired of just letting things slide, because I own a miniature football company.

I've been slammed so many times, I think I am Bam Bam's club on the Flintsones! Yeah, I could have let it go because that's what I do but I just told guys how I saw this toy, a critical eye appeared.

I definitely can tone things down from my perspective with regards to responding to any post, but don't sling my name through the mud over one term I used.

If you want to critique me and the things I say, critique it over the entire body of work. Don't take one word and try to create a firestorm over it. I felt like this was one of those RARE instances, I had to respond (with venom) because my "happy go lucky kind nature" makes people think they can run over you. Say what they want. That's just how I felt on that particular day.

No doubt, even in a world of freedom of speech, we have to respect guys efforts in creating chatboards to come and discuss miniature football. One of my New Year's resolutions was never to look at post that doesn't concern me or things that I was not interested in. I just felt that I was drawn into this because my name was mentioned publicly. I had issues with that.

If I offended anyone, I apologize. It was not my intention to be a lightning rod as it was also not my intention to be critiqued so harshly over a term of endearment to me, which is "toy".

Reginald Rutledge