[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

I thought he might be out for ever...it was an instant KO....

[Tucsonican]

I just read that he’s OK - thank God - but he may be seeing stars for a week or two.

[Per-Ling]

Vicious. Cheap, and vicious.

[sinanju]

I’m sorry, but it’s just not worth it. Especially that we are learning so much more about the permanent and cumulative effect of Traumatic Brain Injuries.

He might seem okay now, but I’ll wager those closest to him will be seeing undeniable effects in the days and weeks to come.

[RonF]

I saw that happen on a kickoff at a high school game when I was a kid.

One of them DIDN’T get up. Paraplegic.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I saw this hit when it happened and many times afterward and while it was a hard hit, I would not describe it as 'brutal'. It was not an intentional helmet to helmet hit. The Pittsburgh player led with his shoulder and tried to avoid hitting McGahee with his head. There was contact between the helmets but it was far below the level of hit that Jack Tatum laid on Darrell Stingley. THAT was an intentional missile launch that was intended to injure.

The good thing for McGahee was that he saw it coming. The body tends to deal better with impacts like this when that happens.

[skimask]

"...it was an instant KO...."

[Colonel_Flagg]

There’s a rule that needs to be changed. I don’t think the hit was intentional but it positively should have been a personal foul.

The rules evidently allow for helmet to helmet contact for a ball carrier, but if McGahee had been a quarterback that hit would have sent the Steeler to football suspension hell.

Players are too big, strong and fast to allow that sort of hit to continue.

[Travis McGee]

I never thought I’d see my Baltimore Ravens, of all teams, so physically beat up. Those Steelers just play like maniacs on meth, every play.

[Paradox]

McGahee is a resilient SOB. I believe that was the guy who shredded both knees in his last game. Total rebuild in both knees, his agent (Drew) convinced someone to use a first round draft choice on him, and he ended up being darned good. His body has remarkable repair ability.

[SoDak]

Uff-da. I stopped watching pro ball a couple of years ago, so I’d have missed this otherwise. That’s a hit.

[Phantom Lord]

That wasn’t all that vicious. Seemed a pretty normal hard hit to me.

[Popman]

Willis McGahee’s College knee injury

Scroll down to the second video

Warning: It's painful to watch.

[TomHarkinIsNotFromIowa]

The had a bounty on Hines Ward. They took him out of the game also.