Noted anti-social media enthusiast Dan Shaughnessy of the Boston Globe is back at it again, folks. In a column posted yesterday about the Patriots’ divisional round matchup with the Houston Texans, he pretty much goes to town on the Texans for being an awful football team. Arian Foster disagrees, so he made a section of the article his Twitter avatar.

Colts coach Chuck Pagano returned to the sidelines today after missing much of the season battling leukemia. Arian Foster scored a touchdown in the game, and decided to pay tribute to Chuck. GIF of Foster being a very nice man, after the jump.

Arian Foster left Sunday’s game against the Vikings — an eventual loss — with an irregular heartbeat. Naturally, if you’re a little girl named Macie who loves the Texans, this situation calls for an irresistibly cute get well card.

Right now, the only football we have is the NFL preseason. And despite some fun things to look for here and there… it’s the preseason. NFL-televising networks need to remind us that the real stuff is around the corner to keep excitement levels up. Above is ESPN’s attempt to do just that for Monday Night Football. We need more Gronk and we need him now. [Front Row]

Despite my bitchy, bitchy headline, this is very cool: Texans running back Arian Foster just signed a five-year, $43.5 million contract to stay in Houston. When he was a 7-year-old kid growing up in Albuquerque, he told each of his family members what he’d buy them once he struck it rich in the NFL; for his mom, it was a fruit basket. His relatives always ribbed him about it, asking him when they’d get their gifts.

Tuesday, Foster’s mom, Bernadette Sizemore, got her gift: a fruit basket delivered to her office at the University of New Mexico, where she’s an administrative assistant for African-American students. Says Sizemore: “I was just really floored. It’s funny, it’s a joke. But it’s also so profound in so many ways.”

Today’s Ravens-Texans playoff matchup had some testy moments – almost inevitable, in such an intense, physical sport – but that doesn’t mean it didn’t have respect.

“I pretty much know what I’ve been doing wrong. I think a lot of it was my nutrition. I was cutting out a lot of carbs in my diet, trying to get leaner. Carbs are the first things that go in your muscles when you’re burning energy. We’ve got a little plan together, so, hopefully, it works.” [Houston Chronicle]

Zing! The above back-and-forth, between controversial ESPN radio/TV host Colin Cowherd and Texans running back Arian Foster, came after Foster tweeted his displeasure with people caring a little too much about their fantasy teams. With this newest tweet, he instantly becomes a top 5 draft pick in your “athletes who can come up surprisingly deep-cutting putdowns” roto-league.

Houston Texans running back Arian Foster, who many have projected as a top 5 fantasy football pick, tweaked his hamstring Saturday night against San Francisco. After the game, he tweeted this message to you sickos.