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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“Dirty team”... Whatever...
It sure looked to me like multiple people were beating the hell out of each other.”
I’m thinking they should issue bladed weapons at half time and let them fight to the death during the second half!
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would warrant jail time if it happened on the street.
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It doesn’t in this circumstance? Why?
I don’t follow football so perhaps another Freeper could explain this.
Wintertime, I do follow football and I do not have an answer.
We’ve seen hockey players have assault charges filed for using sticks before. Garrett connected directly on the top of the head, seemingly hard, that could have gone really, really bad, and on live television.
Only answer I can muster would be along the lines of ‘slippery slope’. Sort of, ‘well if you prosecute for this... then what about that... what about cheap shots... blind side or crack back blocks... what about the crap that goes on in the pile at the end of a play, etc....’.
Because anyone that has played the game knows that when everyone is on the ground in a pile, some horrific s*** can go down. Fingers locked up and broken, ankles intentionally twisted to the point someone’s foot gets f***** up, junk grabbed and twisted on.
Not condoning those behaviors at all, just saying there are some nasty things that happen in this game that are not football plays, where 1 person intentionally tries to injure or maim another, and can have permanent results.
My answer is not good. I’m just trying to answer why the league may not want this prosecuted. Slippery slope is the only thing I can come up with. NFL will handle it, there is no place in the game for something like this.
I do NOT expect the Browns to handle it. I do not expect the same team that signed Kareem Hunt to dole out any sort of discipline for this incident. Although they should. Maybe they will surprise me.
My estimate is that Garrett gets 4 games, Pouncey (no seems to mention his kicks) gets 2 and QB gets1 for starting everything.
Oh please
Live up to your moniker
Thanks. I appreciate the time it took for you to respond. Other Freepers do as well. I’m sure.
A hundred years ago, people got killed regularly playing football.
hmm...first i ever heard of that....odd
I watched it with my family. They were down two touchdowns with 8 seconds left. My comment before all hell broke loose was that the Rudolph should just take a knee and call it a night.
I think that was Pouncy trying to kick Garrett in the helmet. Instead he kicked the calf of a different Browns player.
If you watch the replay, Rudolph is the first one who tries to rip Garrett’s helmet off, then Garrett get’s Rudolph’s helmet off, and hits him with it.
But Rudolph is the one who instigated this fight. He objected to being tackled after the ball was gone, and he went after Garrett.
You can’t start a fight and then bitch when you get the worst of it. Pussy move.
Word around Pitt is that Rudolph’s finger was actually stuck in Garrett’s helmet, Rudolph was trying to get it unstuck and Myles took it the wrong way. Which makes more sense than Rudolph trying to rip the helmet off one of the baddest MF’ers in the game. Idk if that is how it went down or not. Can’t tell from the video. But it sure as hell makes more sense than a QB that is pinned beneath a defensive end deciding that it’s a good idea to rip the DE’s helmet off so he could get a piece of him while laying prone on his back.
“But Rudolph is the one who instigated this fight. He objected to being tackled after the ball was gone”
I would think Garrett, who committed the completely unnecessary late hit tackle with 7 seconds left in the game was the instigator from the beginning.
I don’t know. It sure looks like Rodulph was just tying to rip Garrett’s helmet off.
I don’t disagree with u Haiku, in fact I think Rudoph gets in a kick to the nads before it all hits the fan too. Doesn’t support the stuck finger story. Could be the kick to the junk that really set Garrett off. But that’s the story floating in Pitt, and the NFL front office is fuming mad at Garrett.
Agree with what others have said, he’ll get 4 games... in the end. He probably gets more but it will be appealed down to a 4 game suspension. Aka the rest of the season.
Much information is available by internet. Football was a rather different then, although the evolution from that to the current game is smooth and continuous.
I dunno, by the time Rudolph kicks Garrett in the crotch, his helmet is already almost off. Garrett had started removing his helmet well before the kick.
You’re right. At first I thought he gets him twice, once before and once right after. But the first sort of upper-cut kick hits Garrett in the inner thigh. The second jab-kick gets him in the **** but Rudolph’s helmet is already coming off by then.
I cannot believe I’ve analyzed that frickin video so much now lmao.
To be fair to Myles, Rudolph does have a very punch-able face.
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