“It was tough those days,” said Eric Decker as he sat in the Pr1m0rdi4lLyfestylz® locker room after practice during week 3.
He is talking not about the infamous Deckergate, but about days, weeks and months before the incident that
brought him spotlight sooner in the Pre Socratic society than the general
public. Days he spent playing
Hold’em on Sundays instead of football.
This year he is an every week fantasy starter thanks to the expectation
and the buzz the Broncos signing of Peyton Manning has created. But last year in early September he was
still hanging with the rest of the free agents. Tim Tebow was his QB.
Decker’s pictures were in GQ.
Then the phone rang in the early hours of September 17, and it was the
Trichotillomaniacs GM General Far East.
The Trichs, in search for depth at WR and known to give preferences to
the Broncos players, bought Decker’s upside in a series of transactions that
was infamously termed “the Deckergate” incident. He had a break out game that weekend although he stayed on
the Trichs bench, and he spent the rest of the season with the team, sometimes
starting in place of often injured Hakeem Nicks. Decker has stayed off the waiver/FA list since then, as he
began the 2012 season with the Pr1m0rdi4lLyfestylz®.
Sounding somewhat nostalgic, Decker recalled those days
still with a serious face. “Being in the market sucks big time,
bro. No offense to my gee’z still
out there, but that’s the streetz, yo.
Out there it’s not the high end titration shizt like it is in the
league, yo. It’s like sippin’
syrup and cookin’ sudos, bro.
Niggaz be trippin’ ballz everywhere, yo.”
Reminiscing of days with the Trichotillomaniacs brings smile
to Decker’s face. “The Trichs are
the bomb, yo. They are just
serious herbalists, bro. They got
skillz, they got choicez, yo. I
don’t mean ‘choicez’ like Chronic or Hydro or Purple Pineapple Wreck. I’m talkin’ bout Chinese shizt,
son. They got Chin Ching and Chon
Chong!” The team from the Far East
is indeed known to treat its players with daily doses of Chinese herbal
decoctions as well as providing them with unlimited supply of moxa smoke, and that is what Decker
misses the most about. The herbal atmosphere
of the Far East. Being in the
German European culture now with the Pr1m0rdi4lLyfestylz®, Decker’s titration scene is
more laboratory and chemical.
“When all said and done, bro, it’s poppin’ pills. Some pilates here and there, and I’m cool with
it. But I really digged smoking
and drinking that nature shizt, man.
I really did.”
Last year with the Trichotillomaniacs, Decker exceeded most
people’s expectations, especially considering he was a Tebow target. This year, so far he has been mostly
mentioned as an underachiever. The Pr1m0rdi4lLyfestylz® and the rest of the league including the Trichs expected Decker to
be Peyton’s favorite pet. Instead
he only has 107 yards receiving with zero TDs for 10.4 pts in two games.
Meanwhile Denver teammate Demaryius Thomas continues his
breakout that started in the second half of last season as he has established
to be the Peyton favorite. It’s
looking more like John Elway as Peyton with Rob Smith as Thomas and Ed McCaffery
as Decker.
Perhaps Decker is struggling to avoid becoming another
white-second-option Denver Wide Receiver wearing the number 87 jersey. Decker has often been compared to
former Broncos receivers Steve Watson and Ed McCaffery, both white and both
wearing 87. Bill Larson also ended
his career with the Broncos wearing 87.
“Man, why you gotta come around bringin’ shizt from the past like that up, yo? I’m just trying to help my team to play the titration
right, bro. One week at a time, yo.”
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