Football Altercations
Sadly enough, football (both college and pro) has made headlines this year for things other than touchdowns and extra points. Monday Night there was another altercation, this time between Tyler Brayton of the Oakland Raiders, and Jerramy Stevens of the Seattle Seahawks.
You can watch Drayton put a knee in Jerramy’s crown jewels here.
Fines were handed out to each player today. No suspensions were issued.
Of course, everyone saw the brawl between Miami and FIU back in October. Check it out here, and be sure to listen to the idiotic comments from Lamar Thomas at the 1:48 mark. Suspensions were handed out to both teams, the Miami player shown swinging the helmet was suspended indefinately. Here is a great ESPN take on the situation.
Then there was Albert Haynesworth stomping on Andrew Gurode’s head. You can watch that gem here. Haynesworth was suspended 5 games.
The wrong message is being sent to players with weak suspensions or fines. It’s time the NFL and especially the NCAA step up and show that this type of thing isn’t acceptable. It’s really sad that the NFL will fine a player for doing an end zone dance, and then fine a player for kicking another player in the groin. The crimes don’t match.
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[…] Now, on to the NBA suspensions.   Man, I really don’t know what else to say about this. I think the entire thing is getting blown WAY out of proportion. People are suggesting that Isiah Thomas should have gotten suspended for urging his team to foul Denver hard. Well, I don’t see anything wrong with a hard foul, and although I think Thomas is a moron for complaining about the situation after the fact, the idea that his team fouled the other team while they tried to dunk is not that big of a deal to me. I felt the suspensions were suitable but not equal. A punch thrown is a punch thrown…everyone throwing punches should have gotten the same suspension. Why didn’t every player that threw punches get the same amount of games as Anthony? Yeah, his was a sucker punch, but fighting is fighting in my eyes. […]