Athletes you love to hate

Drew may I ask that you explain your logic with the basketball hate?


solojones: That was a scary moment but I hate to crash your hate party and tell you it actually wasn't a bad hit.




~Liar, lawyer, Mirror for ya, What's the difference? Kangaroo be stoned, He's guilty as the government~

 

I agree. But he wasn't down. He may have been sliding but it doesn't really matter it's free game until he's down. If his helmet didn't hit Green's nobody would even be talking about it. It should just be looked at as a helmet to helmet play which are usually accidental.

EDIT: This is just my opinion of course.



~Liar, lawyer, Mirror for ya, What's the difference? Kangaroo be stoned, He's guilty as the government~

 

*helmet

 

Anyone who plays in Boston, I hate that team.

 

Sorry, it was a legal hit. Green did not go into the slide early enough for Geathers to stop his hit on him.

 

w00t I'm not alone!

 

Well the league is reviewing it again, given the fact that Geathers has had some other questionable hits since then. It wasn't an intentional helmet to helmet, but it was a seriously overaggressive hit on a QB who was sliding. Which isn't illegal, but I definitely don't think Geathers did what he could to avoid it. When about 3 of his teammates were able to avoid it and he just went right ahead, that's questionable to me.

Anyway, what upsets me more than whether or not the hit was actually avoidable is the Bengals reaction. They walked away. All of them just went over to their bench and left Green unconscious in the grass. Even once the medical crews were out there, no one from the Bengals showed any concern. Trust me, I was there and I've been there many other times when someone got hurt. Guys from the other team always show concern, say a prayer, something. With the Bengals? Nothing. Even after Green had been calling Carson Palmer all off season to encourage him through his knee injury. Unbelievable.


-sj loves kevin spacey

 

. Guys from the other team always show concern, say a prayer, something.

think back to LT screaming for medical personnel after joe theismann was crunched.

 

The Titans showed lots of concern about McNabb, yesterday.

 

think back to LT screaming for medical personnel after joe theismann was crunched.

Exactly. And most of the time, that's the sort of thing that happens. Opponents aren't too sad to see someone get injured enough to take them out of the game, but no one likes to see someone get really hurt. No one reasonable, anyway. I lost any shred of respect I might have had for Cincy. It's bad sportsmanship and just bad humanity in any case, but especially so because Green is a fantastic guy who went out of his way to help their QB in the off season. I couldn't believe their reaction. And y'know, Greg Wesley had a great chance to slam into Palmer's knees later in the game, but he made the effort to quickly jump out of the way. Because KC doesn't encourage dirty playing, and most teams don't. Cincy is officially a team I love to see lose now.

Well today on the radio he seemed pretty happy that it was being reviewed again, not because he's vindictive but because he genuinely wants to make sure QBs can be protected when they need to be. To make sure defensive guys get the message that bad hits are not ok. This isn't perhaps the prime example, but there's that whole slippery slope and I don't think Green wants to see the league going down it.

But yeah, of course it's not some huge, pressing issue. I'm more worked up about it than Trent is, I think. But he can't remember what happened anyway He does have a good sense of humour about it, though. After the Oakland game Len Dawson asked him about the scramble he took and why he went down on his side/shoulder (which caused a seriously audible gasp and murmur throughout the stadium ). Trent just said, "Well you know, I haven't had a lot of success sliding..."

-sj loves kevin spacey

 

here's that gruesome hit

LT looked horrified. You can't see his face, but just the way he was panicking and then putting his hands on his helmet as if saying, "What the hell have I done?!"


That video's still hard to watch.

 

Schilling will always have my respect for working through the Sox' incredible WS run while he was probably in the most incredible pain of his life. I can't think of another player who would do that for their team (please do not bring up TO and the Eagles Superbowl).

 

See, that's the way i felt about him BEFORE he opened his back fat mouth.

When he was pitching for the Phillies in the World Series against the Bluejays, i loved the guy. What a warrior!

Then he came to Beantown, where for some godforsaken reason the media loves to let their players talk even when they're absolute idiots.

Some of the things that i've heard outta Schilling....Argh. What a clueless jerk.

 

I couldn't have said it better.






~Liar, lawyer, Mirror for ya, What's the difference? Kangaroo be stoned, He's guilty as the government~

 

Jose Mesa. Neil O'Donnell.

 

I'm sure the whole town of Chicago shares your dislike of him.

I still have a passionate hatred of Steve Spurrier for decimating the Redskins during his time as Coach. Ol' Ball Coach my foot!

 

yes you are. he sucks.







~Liar, lawyer, Mirror for ya, What's the difference? Kangaroo be stoned, He's guilty as the government~

 

Hey, what about coaches we hate? Because Mike Shannahan plays dirty. Vaseline on the jerseys? Sure, they got fined, after they won the game


-sj loves kevin spacey

 

Tell that to Redskins fans after two seasons of losing records with him. There were a lot of us that where estatic when he quit. Saved Snyder the effort of having to pay him anymore of his costly contract.