Ken is still feeling his son's pain, as he had two costly fumbles in the NFC Championship, which resulted in a 20-17 loss for San-Fran.
"As a father, it was absolutely awful. Even if it weren't my kid, I'd still feel bad for what happened," Ken Williams said.
Kyle was able to answer tough questions during the postgame press conference, despite his mistake. The whole week, Williams received a lot of hate, mostly via Twitter, where he even received death threats as well.
"Through it all, the young man has shown me exactly who I thought he was, which is a man of character, a strong-minded, tough son of a gun," Ken Williams said. "He's hurting right now ... Believe me, I'm not happy with some of the death threats and some of the things that are unfortunately part of our culture. I wish it weren't that way, but I have first-hand knowledge of it being that way.
"He grew up in a household where he knew exactly what to expect. He stood up in front of more media than I've ever stood in front of and told them exactly what he felt, and took responsibility. How can a father be anything but proud?"
It's good to see his father stick up for him. I for one, do. He's human. There's no way you should hate someone for something that happened in a goddamn football game. You can't focus your life on that. There's bigger things going on in the world right now, but of course, some people want to put death threats for a muff.
Really?
Kyle should be proud. He shouldn't be all that ashamed. It's football, things happen. Don't let it take over your life, and Kyle surely won't let that happen.
But sadly, some NFL fans do.
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Written by Josh Dhani, Founder (Archive/RSS)
Josh has been writing since 2009 and founded FootBasket in April 2009. He also writes at Hardcourt Mayhem and contributes to TrueHoop’s Eight Points Nine Seconds. He also owns his own Pacers blog at StaringDownSpike.com. Check him out on JoshDhani.com and follow him on Twitter @JoshDhani
Josh has been writing since 2009 and founded FootBasket in April 2009. He also writes at Hardcourt Mayhem and contributes to TrueHoop’s Eight Points Nine Seconds. He also owns his own Pacers blog at StaringDownSpike.com. Check him out on JoshDhani.com and follow him on Twitter @JoshDhani