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 .....?
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...
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.
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.
The Slum Dog Millionaire controlled BLM/NFL is still rolling down hill as per a long (not worth reading) ESPN article about this week’s owner - players’ union - league meeting. Whether they realize it or they would ever admit it, they keep discussing how they can fool White Americans into believing the Slum Dogs are really patriotic Americans who don’t hate White people. They wasted time and energy avoiding the glaringly obvious: Fire the Slum Dogs who refuse to even make believe they don’t hate White America. That would bring some back BUT as time goes by that number will shrink and the “I don’t give a damn I’m not going back” meter will continue to creep closer to 100%.
I’ve been boycotting the NFL for overa year and don’t care about anything they do.
If you're hoping for outrageous verdicts, you don't want deplorables. Barking moonbats will do that job in a heartbeat.
There was a time when this would not even have drawn a flag, let alone talk of a suspension. The QB protection rules are a good thing, but when Alonso started his dive toward Flacco, Flacco was still up and running. Could Alonso have pulled up? Maybe, but the momentum of a 240 lb man running at full speed isn’t easy to stop. And if Flacco had abandoned his slide and kept running to pick up another 3 yards while Alonso pulled up, Miami fans and Miami’s coaches would be roasting Alonso alive.
It’s what Alonso does, especially to QBs. Miami should never have taken this thug.
These things happen very quick, and Flacco was going for the first down marker. Unnecessary roughness? Yes. Flagrant? No way.
They might as well put flags on their waist if a quarterback is allowed to run for a first down without worrying about getting hit.
I've been watching football for over 40 years, and that hit, while extreme, was nothing flagrant. Had Flacco not ducked at the last moment to slide, Alonso would have hit him well below the neck.
If you go back and look at the wider angles of that play, you can clearly see that Alonso was into his motion well ahead of Flacco's slide attempt. Alonso definitely put hot sauce on the hit, but, like I said, that's just football, and there are flags to cover such situations. If they can't allow these defenders to punish a ball carrier—any ball carrier—they might as well all start wearing dresses.
Look at what these running backs do with their forearms and helmets. It's a total double standard. If I want to see f(l)ag football, I'll go down to the municipal field and watch the grade-schoolers play...