That’s how Dick Butkus was.
Nice second half by the Packers. Sure the Lions helped by beating themselves, but the Packers defense got the turnovers and the offense looked good in the second half. 11-0!
You just made that name up. Admit it.
Yeah you know the Lions had this game circled on their calendar for weeks now and they were the better team early, but still they couldn’t convert and made mistakes. The Packers get a road win in the division on a short week, that is something I will take every time.
I’d be more likely to believe that Suh is a “genuine person with the media” if he stopped fucking lying. He’s saying the only thing wrong he did was give the officials a chance to eject him over a misunderstanding, and that he didn’t intentionally stomp on Dietrich Smith. Genuine my ass.
Yeah, the idea that he was just trying to regain his balance, as he claimed in the press conference, is completely ridiculous.
I’m a Lions fan and I still think his excuse is ridiculous. I can’t even homer my way out of this one.
I was happy for the Lions this year. Not now. Fuck 'em. Bunch of talentless assholes.
Oh yeah, the case could made for Woodson being the defensive MVP of the year.
Fuck Detroit. Fuck their dirty players and fuck their dirty failing city.
It takes a particular type of fortitude and moral vision to use a football game as a platform for ridiculing the victims of deindustrialization and urban decay.
I salute you for your courage and clear-sightedness, and hope that you get everything you deserve in life.
It’s just a game. Perhaps I went too far hating on the city.
The Lions though deserve everything bad that happens to them. So Fuck the lions and god-speed to Detroit.
No doubt. Every interview I have heard from him he comes across as an very bright and personable guy. I guess that plus being a Lion fan has made me reluctant to believe he is a dirty player. But he stomped on a downed player, there is no way to misinterpet that. So screw him. I think that our coach has a lot to do with our current problems. We needed some swagger back but we are putting swagger ahead of discipline. Combine that with a lot of sloppy play that points to lack of focus and we have a recipe for underperformance.
I hear that one of the members of Nickelback is a huge Lions fan and was really psyched to be playing halftime during Thanksgiving.
Except a lot of the stuff Suh does now was probably legal play when Butkus was doing it…
Didn’t Haynesworth get four games for stomping Gurode?
That sucked.
Yeah, but that was a helmetless head, much more severe in import and potential injury. That said, if he got 4 games, especially after his press statement, nobody would complain.
I just want to point out that I said he came off as genuine, not that he was. And now with his rant with the media (which hadn’t been revealed when I posted), obviously we see he isn’t. That doesn’t change the rest of his career in which he very much came off as a genuine, likable person off the field, despite the horrific things he did on the field.
It seems to me that Suh is showing sociopathic behavior, and I’m no psychiatrist so please don’t take that as a professional evaluation or anything. Yes I think he acts like a thug and a jerk on the field, but they way he looked at Jim Shorts when he was ejected seems like he didn’t get why. Or maybe he’s just a good actor.
In any case, I can appreciate his talent and how hard he plays the game, but he’s not doing himself any favors with his extracurricular activities on the field and I really don’t think his coach is helping him much either. Just about everyone on the team looks like a thug after the way they’ve played in the past month or so, Schwartz included. Suh might have been better off getting drafted by a team with a coach who can push his energies and abilities while tempering the harder stuff. Who wouldn’t appreciate watching one of the best football players in a generation?
Two things that impressed me was that, for the most part, they kept their cool in a game full of chippiness, and that they did so with three backups (at guard, both ILB’s). The youth and depth on this team is quite encouraging.