OH! THE HUMANITY!!!!
I've stayed out of this one ….so far.
So much hysteria & drama from the media
….helmet as a "deadly weapon"
ME: Anybody see the movie Sideways? When the motorcyclist girl finds out that her Romeo is engaged?
….filing aggravated assault charges
ME: Every football play constitutes "assault". Don't believe me? Go down to your local shopping mall and perform a form-tackle on another shopper walking towards you and see what happens.
Yeah, yeah....Garrett went over the top, no doubt......but the "OMG....the humanity!!!" reactions of some of the media, to me, was frankly, laughable.
Think I'm being too blasee about this? Maybe.....maybe so.
See in Canada, we grow up with hockey, another sport where speed and violent collisions occur (in fact more speed and kinetic energy occur with skate blades on ice, than result from cleats on grass)
so hockey…..ya know, where fighting between players occurs quite often.
Google and check out 2 videos:
MARTY McSORLEY & DONALD BRASHEAR (knocked cold with hockey stick)
TODD BERTUZZI & STEVE MOORE (career ending 3 broken neck vertebrae)
Both these incidents went to Court with dubious results.....BUT TONS OF SPORTS MEDIA AIR TIME & HAND-WRINGING (like this Rudolph//Garrett deal is garnering so far).
IMHO...
The NFL will mete out AMPLE punishment to prevent any future recurrences of this type of retaliation/fighting on a regular basis. So let's move along sportsfans…..nothing to see here!!
Another thought:
Has anybody calculated exactly how many millions Garrett will lose for 8 seconds of bad behavior???
…..and not that I concurred even 60% with Samuel L Jackson's initial rant//observations... ME: "Hey Samuel, so what's in your noggin??!!"
BUT, Jackson's rant had a kernel of truth did it not?
IE. usually it takes two to tangle, right?
....and Rudolph tried to remove Garretts helmet first, did he not, when they were both on the ground grappling?
And did Rudolph not kick Garrett in the pills as Garrett stood up?
So, did Mason Rudolph have ZERO percent blame in this thing? ZERO?
Just asking a question about this "Rudolph 100% anointed victimhood".
To me, the poor folks in Las Vegas, who were just sitting & watching a Country concert across the street from the Mandalay Bay, who were shot.....they were 100% victims, with zero percent fault.
Can Rudolph make the same victimhood claim? I don't think so.
Wait till the ambulance-chaser lawyers sue on behalf of Rudolph's parents for the "pain & suffering" inflicted upon them when they watched the incident on TV in real time, and the subsequent agony they had to re-live each time the replay was aired thereafter!
In the end....just too much Sports Media drama for me here. I mean, Mason Rudolph didn't even chip a tooth in this heat-of-the-moment, non-premeditated Garrett deal.
So....not exactly "no harm, no foul", but can the Sports Media babies like Skip DramaQueen Bayless stop with the hysteria already???!!
Like I already reported, in a top-tier junior hockey league up here in Canada, where guys are trying to catch the NHL Scouts' eye via "feisty aggressive play" (and most are missing a lot of their teeth already), this Garrett 8 second meltdown is a nothing-burger. It's 5 minutes penalty for fighting.....and maybe another 5 minutes more in the penalty box for drawing blood!
Oh yeah, Rudolph never shed a drop!
Anyhoo, I'm moving on.....and if Myles Garrett is made out to be some sort of a deplorable pariah in Cleveland, then let's get Snead to get him in
Horns,
because it's not like Garrett kicked a defenseless woman in the head in a hotel hallway, or drove drunk and killed a St.Louis housewife and mother eh!!
As always....JMO.