Replying to Bad year for simon?

Dude i for one feel kinda bad for him. Coming in 2nd in pipe, not winning big air, getting injured, and everyone hating on empire and him. Lets not forget what he does for our sport, he gives us so much exposure and legitimizes our sport a ton. Without him people would categorize freeskiing along with air racing, snowmobile jumping, sky boarding, base jumping, bmxing, mxing, street racing, etc (i.e. second tier "action" sports).

Yea yea i know tanner deserved to win pipe and tons of respect to him, dont get me wrong, but i think ns should show simon a lil more respect than hes getting right now.