James Harrison calls out Goodell

#27
#27
i tend to believe that Men's Journal probably twisted his words around when it came to his comments on Big Ben and Mendenhall.

I'd say he went totally off on Goodell and Men's Journal wanted to play the angry black man card and ran with it and turned all kinds of quotes around. Just my two cents.
 
#28
#28
The_Orange_Pearl said:
Which incidence happened first? VY or Brees?
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The "hit" on Young happened first but fining Harrison for that play was total garbage. Young was already being held at the shoulders by both Aaron Smith and Brett Keisel and the flip happened as Harrison while on his knees grabbed Young's legs. Three players are trying to bring Young down simultaneously and there's no way one player can be to blame for the way 800+ lbs of bodies fall. In a season filled with horrible calls and fines, the only one worse than this one was Ndamukong Suh being flagged and fined for pushing Cutler in the back.

I suspect his comment about the Brees hit was in reference to the special protection given to Brady, Manning and Brees by the NFL.
 
#29
#29
the guy is as close to dirty as there is. because he continues to open his mouth is why he gets all of the special attention. i hate the steelers and he reinforces that hatred, but if he kept his mouth shut and played the game, i might dislike him less.
 
#31
#31
What a douche.

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#32
#32
Harrison's a pansy. If you're going to go after everyone to an extent like this, then grow a pair and stand by it when pressed after the fact. Don't go for this typical garbage "out of context" and "misquoted" crap. Stand by it, or don't say it in the first place.

blupotato said:
the guy is as close to dirty as there is. because he continues to open his mouth is why he gets all of the special attention. i hate the steelers and he reinforces that hatred, but if he kept his mouth shut and played the game, i might dislike him less.
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There's no "close to"; he's a dirty player. Football is about controlled aggression, and someone who is unable to control that is either going to cost his team (through undisciplined penalties) or find himself being carted off (after a well-placed and well-deserved crackback). He's lucky that he didn't get booted from a Super Bowl for dirty play, and had he been penalized on that play, Arizona wins the game. He was that close to costing his team a championship.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
Harrison's a pansy. If you're going to go after everyone to an extent like this, then grow a pair and stand by it when pressed after the fact. Don't go for this typical garbage "out of context" and "misquoted" crap. Stand by it, or don't say it in the first place.



There's no "close to"; he's a dirty player. Football is about controlled aggression, and someone who is unable to control that is either going to cost his team (through undisciplined penalties) or find himself being carted off (after a well-placed and well-deserved crackback). He's lucky that he didn't get booted from a Super Bowl for dirty play, and had he been penalized on that play, Arizona wins the game. He was that close to costing his team a championship.
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I agree and did not voice this, because I figured the steelers fans would over run the comment. But I agree entirely. As I played when I was younger, I was taught to never lead with the head, and at no point was there an intentional head to head collision. It does happen, but that controlled agression of not laying a hit with just your head came into play. Really, as a player unless there was an "after the play was already dead moment", the likely hood of making a dirty hit was never in the equation. Sure I was part of some vicious hits on kickoff plays, but nothing shady. I would feel no tears if he was to have brain injuries in the next decade or 2. That may sound harsh, but the rules are created to protect him and others for their future. After the karate chop I lost all respect, (and there was slim to none) for that guy.
 
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#34
blupotato said:
I agree and did not voice this, because I figured the steelers fans would over run the comment.
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Frankly, no one should care what a bunch of inbred, mouth-breathing, Iron City-chugging hilljacks think. We're talking about a segment of the population whose most notable personal achievements are being on TV....either on "Cops" or "To Catch A Predator". If the collective Steelers fan base were wiped out entirely, it would boost literacy rates and cause the number of meth labs and unemployed trailer park denizens to plummet.

I'm not sure why they gravitate toward Harrison anyway....reading this interview, it's not like they can read most of those words that he uses or use such flawless grammar. Maybe they just like "dem faincy pitchers" on the cover and in the article.
 
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Ohio Vol said:
Frankly, no one should care what a bunch of inbred, mouth-breathing, Iron City-chugging hilljacks think. We're talking about a segment of the population whose most notable personal achievements are being on TV....either on "Cops" or "To Catch A Predator". If the collective Steelers fan base were wiped out entirely, it would boost literacy rates and cause the number of meth labs and unemployed trailer park denizens to plummet.

I'm not sure why they gravitate toward Harrison anyway....reading this interview, it's not like they can read most of those words that he uses or use such flawless grammar. Maybe they just like "dem faincy pitchers" on the cover and in the article.
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I am speechless, but I can not disagree.
 
#37
#37
I wonder if he's all-there sometimes. Still, I think he was possibly even more deserving than his teammate for defensive MVP.
 
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#38
Panthro said:
I wonder if he's all-there sometimes. Still, I think he was possibly even more deserving than his teammate for defensive MVP.
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He's a man that doesn't appreciate getting $100,000 taken out of his pocket for playing football.
 
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justingroves said:
He's a man that doesn't appreciate getting $100,000 taken out of his pocket for playing football.
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James Harrison head-butting opposing players into unconsciousness has as much to do with "playing football" as any of a number of vicious cheap shots over the years do. What's funny is that, for all the complaining from defensive players about a mid-season crackdown on cheap play, the only one that continually had a problem not being a cheap SOB was James Harrison. That would seem to suggest that the lowest common denominator is....James Harrison.

But he also wanted to compound the stupidity by not looking at anything that got him (justifiably) fined repeatedly, but by accusing the NFL commissioner of racism.
 
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