Dear Vince:

We hope you are doing well. There is a lot of concern and confusion surrounding you and your recent ordeal. You’re a young millionaire in a fantasy job yet you feel it is justified to whine about fans booing you; to the extent of refusing to go back into a game.

Stop the Ben Wallace act. The Titans are your employer and Jeff Fisher is your boss. When our bosses tell us to go to work, we do it like you and Wallace are expected to do. Concerning your fans, they have the right to boo and it’s the media’s job to write about you and all the other athletes.

So Vince, where’s the beef? Nobody understands or sympathizes with your pissing and moaning this past week.

If we go to work and someone “boos” us, we don’t have our Mothers step in and defend us, especially on national television. Your Mother held her “press conference” and is asking people how they would feel if people were saying things about them.

Depends. If we were making millions like you while in a fantasy career like you, Vince, then we would suck it up like the hundreds of other athletes do on a weekly basis, go into the game when we’re told, play hard, take the boos and pick up the paycheck on Friday.

And what’s with the running and hiding? Coach Fisher has more important things to do than get frantic calls from your mother.

Coach should be sitting in a room watching films with your hard-nosed teammates who are sucking it up after getting physically and mentally battered on Sunday . . . watching those discouraging game films that verify that your Titans need to resolve their low-rated passing game.

Vince, in case you haven’t noticed, you’re making more per game that most people make in several years combined. You were handed a starting QB job on a respectable NFL franchise and for some reason you believe the fans who pay your multi-million dollar salary do not have the right to voice their opinion when you’re doing a shitty job.

Most of your fans have embraced you since you arrived. They go to real jobs that take a great deal of physical and, or, mental energy. Their reward to themselves for busting their asses all week is to pay a ridiculous amount of money for a ticket and attend a football game to watch guys like you play.

These fans have the right to boo you, your team, the opposition or anyone else, especially when they are displeased with your or the team’s performance.

You know, cheering and booing are the only two common means of communicating to teams and players that fans have. They can also make signs and hold them in front of TV cameras to get their point across as you will soon find out when you return to the NFL.

Why should the common sports world as we know it suddenly stop to accommodate Vince Young because he and his Mom don’t agree with the fans and media’s response. As you already know, your Mom relayed other information to the national media; that you “may not want to play football anymore.”

If you and your Mom cannot accept the fans and media telling it like it is, then hang up the spikes and return all the millions and millions of cash you have been paid. The Titans can give it to someone with the necessary amount of testosterone to handle the NFL QB position.

We know you had an MRI since Sunday’s injury but the concerns are greater than ligaments or tendons in a knee. These concerns have escalated to the point, Coach Fisher now says you will have to earn your starting job back. Looks like you’ve opened a can of worms, Vince.

This morning Chris Simms must have been thinking, “I better turn my cell phone on.” In case you haven’t heard, your Titans just signed Simms, the guy that played through a game in Tampa with a ruptured spleen and bruised ribs. 

After all Duante Culpepper has been through emotionally and physically, he must be thinking, “What a pussy” and “Damn, I wish my cell would have rung!”

Professional athletes are chastised by the fans and the media every day and 90 percent of the time they deserve it, like in your case.

Good luck fixing this one. It may go down as a classic and the media is going to be chewing on this one for a long time . . . like a bad piece of steak.

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