kick in the face: wtf?

[on-ramp]

if it wasn't for football, some of these pigs would be behind bars.

remember that lunatic Ramonwaski from the Broncos...one game , at the bottom of a pile, he intentionally broke someone's finger.
they let him continue play..

[rammstein]

NEW YORK (Oct. 2, 2006) -- Albert Haynesworth of the Tennessee Titans has been suspended without pay for five games for flagrant unnecessary roughness against Andre Gurode of the Dallas Cowboys in Sunday's Cowboys-Titans game in Nashville, the league announced.


This is the longest suspension in NFL history.

[on-ramp]

so he gets a 5 week vacation. ha ha.

great punishment.

[Jeff Higgins]

Why don't folks just quit watching this crap? I gave up on pro sports the day my oldest, then about three, was sitting next to me on the couch watching some b-ball. Barkley's face filled the screen as he very clearly hollared "fuch you" at a fan. Grab remote, turn off tube, never go back. It's done nothing but get worse. This hood should never play the game again. Add him to the growing list of dozens, across all pro sports, that share that distinction.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Ridiculous. That's practically an incentive.

Should have been permanently un-invited from the NFL.

[rammstein]

[widgeon13]

Why is it that the local DA is not filing felony assault charges, what is wrong with our syytem that precludes this from happening. I just don't understand the difference in circumstances between the stadium turf and the turf of some dark alley in some city across this country. Can someone give me an explanation of what the difference is?

[David]

I believe their pay is divided up by games, so if he got a 5 game suspension that's a pretty hefty fine.

[JeremyD]

In theory $203,125 in fines for missing five games. He should be gone for the season.

[nostatic]

It isn't about the money. It's about the game and if there is any shred of sportsmanship left (stupid question I know). Minimum should have been a full season suspension. And the team should let him go. This is all part of the decay of American society...with sports leading the charge down the toilet.

[Oracle]

If you follow Hockey you'd heard about Bertuzzi how he hit a player causing injuries that have finished the others career.. did I mention Bertuzi hit it from behind with his fist breaking something in the neck?
You gotta see that slap on the hand from the NHL... That was a joke.

[dd74]

Originally posted by nostatic
It isn't about the money. It's about the game and if there is any shred of sportsmanship left (stupid question I know). Minimum should have been a full season suspension. And the team should let him go. This is all part of the decay of American society...with sports leading the charge down the toilet.

Todd, you're just wrong. You're looking at one isolated incident, and issuing grandiose claims that as it is sports related, it is leading the way down the toilet.

I imagine you didn't happen to see the first New Orleans Saints game in the Superdome since Hurricane Katrina, and how that, for what it was worth, boosted the morale quite exponentially throughout the city, particularly as the Saints won.

I imagine you might not be familiar with the millions of $$$s players of this caliber donate to charities.

I imagine you might not be familiar with the fabric of positive society these players weave, particularly for disenfranchised youth.

I hardly call any of that the decay leading the charge down the toilet.

What instead leads the charge down the toilet, in my estimation, are grose and ignorant generalizations.

[nostatic]

ha. spoken like a true pro sports kool aid drinker. There are a handful of positive role models that do good works. Most of them are over-paid thugs who give "disenfranchised youth" pipe dreams, 99.9% of which end poorly.

But you'll believe what you want. As will I. I've quit watching most pro sports because it ain't like it used to be. Guys used to play for the love and honor of the game. Now it is about money, money, and money. College too.

[Noah930]

My own personal litmus test: I don't particularly care about sports where it appears that the people in the stands care more about the outcome of the game, than the players on the field. I realize this is one of those sweeping generalizations you hate, dd74. But heck, the guy with the ball should care more about who wins, than the little kid decked out in a replica jersey watching him.

[widebody911]

An interesting view of the American psyche is the difference in reaction to a guy getting his face kicked in on the field, and to that of some old hag's nipple getting exposed for 3ns.

[nostatic]

one word: Rollerball

[Moneyguy1]

Some sports are more violent than others. Isn't it interesting that boxing matches generally end with the combatants talking together and sometimes during the bout even giving a little gesture of respect like touching gloves at the beginning of a round?

The more contact in the sport, the more likely that intentional harm will be done. Football and Hockey both come to mind while baseball is a far in the distance, despite the occasional melee.

Fact is, the "sport" has gone out of professional sports.

[dd74]

Originally posted by nostatic
ha. spoken like a true pro sports kool aid drinker. There are a handful of positive role models that do good works. Most of them are over-paid thugs who give "disenfranchised youth" pipe dreams, 99.9% of which end poorly.

But you'll believe what you want. As will I. I've quit watching most pro sports because it ain't like it used to be. Guys used to play for the love and honor of the game. Now it is about money, money, and money. College too.

A handful? How would you know? You don't "watch" sports programming (as you claim above), where many of these "handful" of professionals either give PSAs about, or are noted by announcers as to their community tidings.

Unless you're just attempting to be contentious, if you believe what you're writing, you really have no clue about what you're talking about. 99.9%? Is that factual?

Seriously, you manifest off poorly-found, societal generalizations. Simply because of your refusal to watch pro sports, makes your claims groundless.

One sport I've seen you support, which is cycling, is steeped in cheating, thuggery and the resulting societal fallout of both to those who follow the sport - so let's not fail to cast our aspersions there.

Third, with you being a supporter of F1, I'm certain you also need to take into account the unsportsman-like conduct of certain racers, like Schumacher, who of late, has been cited for knocking other drivers off the race course. You better save a rock to throw that direction as well.

Whether a kick in the face, a tap of tire that causes a loss of life at close to 200 mph, or a shoulder knock that makes a rider fall down a side of the Pyrenees Mountains...your ideal of thuggery is pervasive in nearly every sport.

Even Olympic figure skating if you recall the Tonya Harding situation, has its brutality. Oh yeah, and when those or any Olympiad goes pro, they're also usually paid millions, which, I imagine, must equate to "overpaid."

[widebody911]

Originally posted by dd74
A handful? How would you know? You don't "watch" sports programming (as you claim above), where many of these "handful" of professionals either give PSAs about, or are noted by announcers as to their community tidings.

And how many of those are conditions of their parole?

[dd74]

Originally posted by nostatic

I've quit watching most pro sports because it ain't like it used to be. Guys used to play for the love and honor of the game. Now it is about money, money, and money. College too.

That's like saying "I quit watching the news because reporters don't like reporting the news anymore, but are there for the notoriety of being seen on TV."

Another generalization...