Furore as NFL star Rashard Mendenhall lashes out at people who celebrated bin Laden's death

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/4/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

NFL star Rashard Mendenhall is at the centre of a storm over Twitter posts he made on Monday night about Osama bin Laden's death.

The Pittsburgh Steelers running back criticised people who celebrated the terror mastermind shooting.

It forced the team's president to issue a statement distancing the organisation from Mendenhall's comments.

Mendenhall ranted on Twitter against the general reaction to the Al Qaeda's death and even questions that Bin Laden was responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

He tweeted: 'We'll never know what really happened. 'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.'

The scenes of celebration around the country on Sunday night and Monday annoyed the football star.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

This is the same moron who compared the NFL to "slavery." (Video at link).

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

[BenLurkin]

“It’s a ‘burgh thing.”

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Correction, it was Adrian Peterson who made the slavery remark. Mea culpa.

[BADROTOFINGER]

No, it isn’t. That was Minnesota’s Adrian Peterson.

[BADROTOFINGER]

Got me by one second...:-)

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Corrected and acknowledged. Man am I gonna get an earful on this! lol

[re_nortex]

“It’s a ‘burgh thing.”

Mendenhall learned well from Dan Rooney's classless shout out to O'Bambi after the Super Bowl.

[SoldierDad]

What a complete putz!!

[Frank_2001]

Is he a muslim?

[higgmeister]

'I just have a hard time believing a plane could take a skyscraper down demolition style.'

I just have a hard time believing an individual can receive bone quaking hits to the head over-and-over, year-after-year on the gridiron without causing permanent and progressive dainbramage.

[SoldierDad]

I don’t know. I wasn’t able to find any information on his religious affiliation.

[devistate one four]

Another lame brained celebrity.

[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

Either terminally stupid or has taken too many head shots. In either case, he’s an irrelevant ahole.

[shibumi]

"The scenes of celebration around the country on Sunday night and Monday annoyed the football star."

Well, as they say in the old barroom dice game, "That's a horse apiece."

You see, Rashard-baby, scenes of celebration in end zones around the country on Sunday afternoons and Monday nights which are carried out by illiterate morons who couldn't pass a sixth grade civics test annoy the hell out of a lot of the people who pay their wages.

In short, Rashard (is that ~really~ your name?) the visibility of your opinion does not constitute its value

[Lazlo in PA]

I guess this Truther thug never heard any of OBL taped rants on the Hip Hop/Rap station he listens to. When a terrorist and all his friends take credit for and there is evidence of them planning both attacks on the WTC, it seems likely they is guilty.

[fhayek]

Lash out all you want. I downed a glass of bourbon upon the news. And, in response to Mr Mendenhall, I think that I shall consume another. The world is a better place with the coward bin Laden dead. Learn it, live it, love it.

[Slump Tester]

As an Ohio State fan, I can relate. We’ve got some real doozies on our football team. Trading memorabilia and autographs for cheap TATOOS! What idiots.

[expatguy]

You must be kidding...

An American Expat in Southeast Asia