Posted on 02/02/2006 4:56:13 AM PST by beyond the sea
At first, Joey Porter pledged not to speak with reporters after Super Bowl XL Media Day.
Then, he softened his stance and promised to keep his outspoken mouth in check.
Wednesday, he took that plan and threw it to the ground like a defenseless quarterback.
The Steelers' loquacious linebacker couldn't contain himself yesterday when he learned Seattle Seahawks tight end Jerramy Stevens predicted Jerome Bettis' return to Detroit would culminate with a Super Bowl loss.
"I've been asleep all week, but now, I got woke up," Porter said yesterday. "I've got my first taste of blood, and now I'm thirsty for more. Until now, it was, 'Watch what I say. I can't say this. I can't say that. Don't do anything silly.'
"I'm ready now."
The Super Bowl had been controversy-free until Stevens livened it up with a quote that was published yesterday in Seattle newspapers.
"It's a heartwarming story and all that," Stevens said, referring to Bettis' homecoming and impending retirement, "but it will be a sad day when he leaves without that trophy."
Porter can appreciate some spirited trash-talking, but evidently, not from someone with Stevens' modest credentials.
A 6-foot-7 former first-round pick now playing in his fourth season, Stevens had a career-best 45 catches for 554 yards and five touchdowns this season. By comparison, Steelers rookie tight end Heath Miller posted comparable numbers, besting Stevens by one touchdown.
"I feel like (Stevens), out of anybody, should know his role," Porter said. "I mean, he hasn't done anything to make anybody fear him. Jerome is a walking Hall-of-Fame guy that everybody knows about. This guy (Stevens) was almost a first-round bust, who barely made some plays this year.
I'm going to make sure he doesn't have anything to do with the outcome of the game."
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LOL!
Aikman is one good guy!
Oh yes.
Danke......Arrington is a dude!
Joey has two levels of play, excited and mad. Joey's excited all the time, he needs an excuse to get mad... and one of his greatest skills is finding an excuse to get mad.
I remember The Hammer getting knocked out. It was, all in all, pretty funny.
But I don't want to see anyone carried off of the field in a stretcher, or even have to ride the cart off of the field.
Minor injuries are OK though. Part of the game.
Remember Daryl Stingley? Out for life with a broken neck from either Jack Tatum or George Atkinson, both of the Raiders. That still bothers me.
http://www.superiorpics.com/jessica_biel/pictures/IMG_141024499_picture.html
That picture kills me!!!!
"and one of his greatest skills is finding an excuse to get mad" ----- Excellent and so true....... Joey can convince himself.
LOL!
Yes, those things are awful.
Funniest part about that story is that after the mother decided to induce early so as not to miss the Super Bowl, the baby herself insisted on being born early, before the induction could be performed.
It seems the little tyke is a football fan too, and wasn't waiting on no "grownups" to deliver her in time.
Wow. We could spend all day thinking of names like this.
Joella is better than Bentrovel.
SD
This Steeler fan doesn't wish this on anyone......but I have a feeling, prognostication, premonition, whatever you want to call it, that Hasselback gets hurt. Who is their backup?
This Steeler team is the best that we have produced since the 1978 Steeler team. Seattle would be wise not to talk too much trash.
"I hope they take Stevens off the field on a stretcher with a career-ender."
I don't. I don't want to be hearing the whining for the rest of my life about how the Steelers won the SB by being cheap shot artists. Talk to any idiot Bengals fan-they're all "the Steelers cheated us out of our spot".
I hope it's a good clean game with no serious injuries and that Stevens walks off the field with his head hung in shame after spending most of the evening getting planted in the turf.
GO STEELERS!
3 more days-I don't know how I'm going to make it that long.
Hmm, that would be a tough one for me-induced labor hurts like hell, but miss the Super Bowl?
Glad my kids were all born mid year.
Ha, that is GREAT. :)
Thanks for the invite, but I'm already locked in to other plans.
Besides, I like to stay home to drink excessively! Less driving!8^)
Have a pitcher for me, buddy!
At least Hines was crying for his teamate. Unlike some other players who cry for themselves, a al Chad Johnson, the Mouth of the Bengals.
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