Posted on 11/14/2019 9:58:40 PM PST by Enterprise
Thursday’s Browns-Steelers game ended with an ugly brawl that saw Cleveland defensive end Myles Garrett remove Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph’s helmet and swing it at his unprotected head.
Current and former NFL players watching from home were stunned and took to Twitter with reactions predicting a season-long ban, while James Harrison said an assault like that would warrant jail time if it happened on the street.
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It sure looked to me like multiple people were beating the hell out of each other.
Isn’t anyone pointing out that Mason Rudolph started the unprovoked fight?
“Then did you also notice, like I did, that Rudolph, after being brought down, was attempting to rip of Garrett’s helmet first?”
Likely a reaction to the first part of Garrett’s assault, the late hit.
“the last to throw a punch gets seen by the refs”
If that were the case, we wouldn’t even know about this.
without the ball
Garrett living dangerously
Those were some very large men grabbing him after he hit their QB
They coulda hurt him
As one who hates the new sissy rules
A bit of a suspension is enough
Scrawny lanky QB wants to get froggy with high wattage tight end ...six four 275 pounds of hard muscle
Shite happens
The usual suspects off course are all righteously aghast, and although Rudolf was fine after the game, smiling and walking around unharmed, the PC Police are ready with the hangman’s noose.
It is too bad to be sure, but I’m curious about what really happened.
Even before all this happened, the Browns knocked out several Steelers with helmet-to-helmet hits, including Pittsburgh’s top two receivers.
I think the Browns were told to knock out as many Steelers as possible.
My reaction: This was payback for every thug-ass Steeler cheapshot from Mean Joe Greene to James Harrison that the Browns have had to absorb, often without so much as a flag being thrown. The Steelers have been a dirty team for 50+ years and the rest of the division has figured out that the only way to fight back is to be just as vicious. The Ravens do it. The Bengals do it. Now, the Browns are getting into the act.
Hitting a helmetless player is way beyond the pale and whatever suspension that’s given is justified. I’m just saying the Steelers have deserved a beatdown like this for a long, long, long time and tonight it appears they got it.
I find your remarks very offensive... and disgusting....
“National Felons League.”
Stopped watching it three years ago. Don’t regret one minute of it.
https://twitter.com/claytravis/status/1195209766106226688?s=21
There’s part of your outraged ESPN for you. There’ll be a lot of “whitey deserved it” if not said publicly, certainly thought.
No love lost between Cleveland and Pittsburgh for several decades now, although the fire in the belly was reduced to embers for the last 20 years of Browns II, ever since the Great Satan Modell stole off with Browns I.
I’m surprised nobody has brought up Jack Lambert or Turkey Jones. Those were the days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaPJWb3U7Gk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcQqwpCFJ4
My dad had season tickets back in the early 60’s when we had the Saturday preseason doubleheader, usually featuring the Browns vs Steelers and the Pittsburgh fans who took the bus up to the game were plastered before it started. The bleachers were home to a multitude of fisticuffs, although the pugilists were usually so loaded that no damage was done.
Mike Trivisano, long time radio host has related two stories about those days. A fan in Pittsburgh gear was passed out and laying in a trough urinal which did not stop Browns fans from using it for it’s intended purpose as well as getting a little revenge at the same time. Another story had a car full of Steeler fans stuck in post game traffic jawing with Clevelanders who responded by peeing through their open car window.
...and true and deep down, you know it.
I forget who it was - probably a Minnesota Viking as that’s where I grew up. They were interviewing him years later about how rough football was back then (1960’s?).
“Oh yeah - there’d be a big pile with some guys trying to get the ball and other guys just scratching at guys. One time I was in the big pile and there was a finger right in front of me. I bit down hard..... Boy did that hurt - it was mine!”
It is the Steelers and Cleveland. The helmet thing may have been a bit much but the rest of it has been going on for decades.
Way to harsh (and I am a Steelers fan). A rest of the season suspension and a fine.
I was in Three Rivers Stadium watching the Browns and Steelers more than once. There was no love showing on that field.
Who cares? Do you think Rudolph was planning on smashing Garrett’s unprotected head with his helmet? Garrett should be out at least a full year. I dont understand why so many people think that suspending him for the rest of the season is a severe punishment.
“A rest of the season suspension and a fine.”
And a mandatory bunch of sessions with an anger management counselor.
I just looked at Myles Garrett’s stats.
He made All Pro (Second Team) last year with 44 tackles and 13.5 sacks.
After just 8 games this year, he has 27 tackles and 10 sacks!
He was obviously playing at a very high level.
He was the Number One pick two years ago.
On top of no pay checks for the next year, he will almost certainly have to give back some bonus money, too, because that is “front loaded” in his contract
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