Remember kids, its ok if your player does it. I thought Sherman was bush league after the Bucs game antics. It was now confirmed after the Vikings game. What a bulbous puss-filled sack of shit this clown is. Guess what skippy- The first playoff game the Pack plays on the road, you lose.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/football/news/2002/12/09/vikes_pack_scuffle_ap/
From the link:
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After gaining 17 yards on a pass from Daunte Culpepper, Walsh took a knee at the Minnesota 43 with four seconds remaining.
Edwards teed off on Walsh, and the Vikings called timeout with one second left, giving Culpepper a chance for one long last pass.
** Vikings head coach Mike Tice argued that a player cannot be hit after he kneels. But Packers head coach Mike Sherman said Edwards was within his rights.
“The whistle hadn’t blown, and the officials had not said the play was over,” Sherman said. “Until the play is over, he had the football, he’s a viable threat with the football. So, I don’t see how he could have done it any other way.” ** bold added. Nice double standard, idiot.
Jim Daopoulos, the league’s supervisor of officials, said Monday that the whistle should have been blown the moment Walsh took a knee.
“Yes, we missed that one,” he said.
Daopoulos cited NFL Rule 7-4(a), which reads: “An official shall declare dead ball and the down ended when a player is out of bounds or declares himself down by falling to the ground and makes no effort to advance.”
If Edwards would have hit him after a whistle, the Vikings would have gained 15 yards on the personal foul and would have had the ball at the Green Bay 42 for the last-chance pass.
** Asked if Edwards should have just touched Walsh down, Sherman said no, because Edwards was trying to force a fumble. **
Sherman said Tice didn’t bring up the issue when the two spoke Monday about the postgame scuffle.
“Mike’s a good guy and felt terrible about how the game ended, as did I,” Sherman said. “And I don’t anticipate that to happen again.”
Tice said the fight brought shame on both teams.
“I don’t condone that type of thing, although I’m not a guy to back down from any challenge and don’t want my players to back down from a challenge, [but] there is a 60-minute time limit in the game,” Tice said.
“If you want to take care of those challenges during the 60-minute time limit, I have no problem with that, but after the game’s over, the game’s over and you go on your way and then you live to fight another day.”
The Vikings also were upset by the Packers’ blocks on Sharper’s return and said Green Bay players should be especially sensitive to such things after Warren Sapp’s blindside block away from the play Nov. 24 that ended Chad Clifton’s season.
Sherman said he admonished Sharper for his game-ending antics.
“What you should do on that play is just knock the ball down,” Sherman said. “But if you catch it, you fall down, the game’s over, we don’t risk injury, we don’t risk a turnover, which is really the only thing at that point that could lose the ballgame for you.”
Jim Kleinsasser started the brawl by shoving Marques Anderson. Hunter Goodwin and Matt Birk of the Vikings and Mike McKenzie, Rod Walker and Cletidus Hunt of the Packers, among others, joined the fracas.
Packers wide receiver Javon Walker ended up at the bottom of the pile and bruised his knee when somebody twisted his left leg.
**About 40 yards away, Favre crossed paths with Hovan.
Hovan said he “felt this shove on my shoulder and I looked over and I was about to say 'Great job, or ‘Great game, man.’”
But Favre was hop-skipping away, pointing at him and taunting him like a little kid on the playground, he said. ** Bolding for ** jarbabyj **
Hovan hollered back, shoved away security officials, ** was pelted with beer and tobacco juice ** on his way up the visitors’ tunnel and had some choice words for Favre afterward.
“To say there’s some bad blood between the teams might be an understatement,” Favre said. “I’ve always said football’s a tough sport. It’s not a nice man’s game.”
For Sherman and Farve, and the lovely drunken morons fans at the game, this :smack:'s for you.