Jeff Miller is the Chargers beat writer for the Los Angeles Times.
The first threats arrived shortly after the ball hit the Jacksonville turf, the Chargers’ rookie bowing under the weight of disappointing an entire franchise and its fan base. By the time Austin Ekeler reached his phone in the defeated visitors’ locker room, the social-media vitriol had exploded, not unlike a virus spreading.
His fourth-quarter fumble spawned third-degree intensity. “People were telling me to off myself,” Ekeler, now in his seventh season, recalled. “I was like, ‘Ah, OK.’ I learned really quick that there’s a lot of knuckleheads out there.” A lot of passionate, maniacal and deeply invested knuckleheads, yes. Few things in sports ignite emotion quite like football does, especially the NFL version.
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