This past Sunday, Patriots’ lineman Matt Light got into an altercation with Dolphins’ linebacker Channing Crowder. Crowder’s helmet was ripped off, then Light proceeded to land about 3 haymakers on the head of Crowder. Check here for the video.
And what was the end result from the league? Both men were fined $15,000 and no one was suspended. Sooooooo, if you play for New England and punch a guy in the head, you get a $15,000 fine. If you play for Miami and get punched in the head, you also get a $15,000 fine. If you play for the Steelers, you get fined for making perfectly legal and non-flagged blocks.
But if you play for the team Roger Goodell loves - the Pats - you get a free pass every time. Can these fines be explained???
—Light fined $15,000 with no suspension for repeatedly punching Crowder in the head after the play was over.
—Steelers’ wideout Hines Ward was fined $5,000 for making a great block during a play.
—Jets’ safety Eric Smith was fined $50,000 and suspended for a helmet-to-helmet hit on Anquan Boldin. (While this was a rough hit and really messed up Boldin, it still occurred during an actual game play in the end zone - not after the play was over.)
—Dolphins’ linebacker Joey Porter was fined $20,000 for commenting after a game that the refs missed a call. Specifically, he said, “When they took that away I’m like, ‘Hey, that’s crazy. It’s the same referee’s staff. Something always happens out there.”
So if you say you don’t agree with a ref’s call, you get fined $20,000. But, if you punch a guy repeatedly in the head, you get fined less and not suspended.
The moral of this story? Play for the Pats if you want to not follow the rules.
And really, is there any difference between Roger Goodell and this guy?
After watching Oregon trounce Alabama in the Maui Shoot-out last night by a score of 92-69, Bob Hoffman, the first year head coach of Mercer, stated the following, “These guys are killing our RPI!”
We would like to congratulate FSU safety Myron Rolle on his accomplishment of being named a 2008 Rhodes Scholar. Really an excellent achievement.
And, that means that the Noles will only need to have about 986 more Rhodes Scholars in the next few years to equal the number of players arrested while Bobby Bowden has been the coach. Almost there!
We don’t much follow hockey, but we did find it quite amusing when our buddy sent us the following link: http://www.bamahockey.net/home.asp.
Yep, University of Alabama hockey. But here’s what was the most interesting part to us… apparently they came up with the nickname in honor of Mike Shula’s red zone offense.
That’s right: The Alabama Frozen Tide!
Nice tribute, we think.
We thought Tyler Hansbrough’s suit choice was the worst decision last night. Seriously, even Bob Huggins would be too classy to break out the black pinstripe suit with an Under Armor black t-shirt. But not Tyler.
He held the honor of biggest mistake of the night until about 2:15 am eastern time, when the final seconds ticked away in the Arizona-UAB game. The Wildcats were down 3 points with 25 seconds left and were at the line. Wildcat player makes the first free throw, misses the second. A freshman for the Cats grabs the rebound and puts it back in - tie game! Then that same freshman fouls on purpose as soon as the ball is inbounded. Yes, he had just tied the score. So, UAB walks to the other end and proceeds to miss the free throw. After an Arizona timeout with about 15 seconds left, the Cats have the final shot to win the game. Arizona fires a jumper with about 5 seconds left - no good.
UAB rebounds, and just as the Blazer is about to heave a 60-footer, he is grabbed from behind by another Wildcat freshman, Jamelle Horne. Intentional foul with 0.8 seconds left in a tie game. Of course, UAB makes a free throw and wins. Nice.
Just in case it sounds like we made up the fact that Arizona committed fouls on purpose twice in the final 25 seconds of a tie game, here’s the video…
After watching Urban Meyer call two timeouts in the closing minutes of a 49-10 win over Georgia on Saturday and watching Meyer leave Tim Tebow in late into the game in a 63-5 win over Kentucky, we have now figured out why Ron Zook is not still the head coach at Florida.
Clearly, he’s not a big enough asshole.
Which one of these is not like the other… Spurrier, Zook, Meyer?
But the University of Tennessee has finally realized that you are supposed to dispose of your pumpkin immediately after Halloween.
As best we can gather from reading this report, the Charlotte Bobcats’ Sean May is out “with a belly.”