Posted on 10/27/2017 5:50:39 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Joe Flacco started his slide, and it’s not like Miami Dolphins linebacker Kiko Alonso was trying to make a tackle. Flacco wasn’t going to suddenly levitate into the end zone.
Maybe there’s a fine line between trying to injure someone and simply inflicting punishment. But it’s hard to make an intellectually honest argument that Alonso wasn’t trying to injure the Baltimore Ravens‘ quarterback on Thursday night when he blasted Flacco even though the quarterback was well into his slide.
Flacco’s helmet came off and he was sent to the locker room to be evaluated for a concussion. (He was later placed in the concussion protocol.) He didn’t return to a game that was just as ugly as that incident, a 40-0 blowout victory for Baltimore.
“It was a bang-bang play,” Alonso told reporters postgame.
Hope the jury is filled with Trump voters when they take CTE cases to a jury. Punitive damages of $1 billion per case sounds about right to me...
It’s the NFL
Who gives a .....?
I live near Baltimore, where football is close to a state religion, and I don’t really care.
Bunch of thugs playing a kids game
Watching NFL football on TV or attending a game will not make you taller, thinner, or smarter. It won't improve your marriage, your relationship with your kids, or your golf game. In the course of human events the outcome of games, even championship games, means nothing. Give your heart and soul to your team and you will get back a national anthem protest and a brace of felonies committed by players.
To paraphrase Jerry Seinfeld, "You are rooting for laundry".
This is what happens in a sport populated with anti-culture thuggo felons. Flaccid got mugged.
Damages should be against the person who inflicted the injury. Since most owners don’t suit up, that would be the players.
Black thugs have destroyed the NFL. Kiko Alonzo is just one of many who missed learning about sportsmanship in the ghetto.
Well a story on MSNBC cited a poll that more people are ok with these aholes taking a knee...https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/poll-number-of-voters-who-consider-kneeling-during-anthem-appropriate-ticks-up/ar-AAu6oNt?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartandhp
It tells the NFL that they can ignore us and stay the course and they will be back up in no time...
That just sux...
I never really understood the “our team” stuff for any sport. Its not like the team is going to perform better or worse. I think its a substitute for tribal behavior that has gone away from American life. People want to feel “part of something” but there are a lot of people who dont want to put in the work, so buying a jersey and cheering is easy.
You know they were going to concoct a fake poll. This is not surprising.
The only polls you need are the half-empty stadiums and the declining viewership numbers.
We’re back to November 4. These idiots never learn.
If you don’t cancel your cable, it won’t mean much.
The major networks and the nfl all get guaranteed money from your cable subscription.
When my son was young and participated in AYSO soccer, it was a given that the best player would be taken out by injury in the first period. Even children are taught, if they have a bad coach, to injure those who are going to ‘hurt’ their team. Heartbreaking that our youth are too frequently taught that winning is more important than good sportmanship.
Apparently none of you watched the Raiders in the 70’s.
Forgot about the game being on but then again, haven’t watched any games this year. However, I did see a clip of the hit. Bang/bang play, as they say.
Yes, it wasn’t at the goal line but it was at the 1st down marker. Flacco was in a full sprint, looked up and saw the defender coming at him. Pause frame by frame and you see Flacco starting to bail out two yards short of the 1st down line and the defender was already bracing for a collision from the opposite direction. Keep in mind, 2 yards is shorter than Flacco is tall. Sure, they can throw the flag but I don’t think the hit was an intentional attempt to injure. Nor was it apparent (in the only angle I saw) the defender “targeted” Flacco’s head. He was simply trying to get between Flacco and the 1st down marker.
The NFL has come a long way as far as the athletes are concerned. The players are too big and too fast for the protective equipment to be of any substantial use, let alone the penalties. It’s an aggressive game. Always has been. But it only gets ugly when the trash talking and look-at-me showmanship is allowed to fester.
For every lethal injury or injury that takes a player out of the game, ONE owner should go to jail for a minimum of one year.
Football is a murderous game.
Kiko Alanzo is a white thug.
Not that it matters...
I live in Baltimore. I am not a fan of the Ravens. I watched some of the game and saw the play where Flacco got hit. In my humble expert football opinion, Flacco tried to get to the first down line and started his slide too late to avoid the collision. The defender, Alonso, was at full speed on a collision course to prevent the first down. It was like the car trying to beat the train at the crossing. This time, the car lost. Just football. Dumb old Flacco ain’t no Carson Wentz. Fifteen yards of penalty was enough.
You’re a dumbass.
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