I guess becoming deliberately blind to the negative actions of those you root for is a necesary psychological mechanism for you to continue to support them, as they’re pretty egregious. It’s especially transparently ridiculous in this case given the history of Harrison.
Anyone else want to go on record as supporting Harrison again? Come on, stand behind your guy.
Who supported Harrison?
Not seeing it as a “deliberately hit on a quarterback” after he lowered his melt after the ball was thrown away and has an admitted trend of headhunting which he says he won’t deviate from is defending it.
So is trying to play the “your guys did it too!” lame excuse card when clearly they weren’t remotely the same thing.
If saying that he should be fined or suspended is defending it, I’m doing it wrong. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
In so far as you haven’t said what he did was wrong, but just said that the NFL usually punishes people for that sort of thing. Trying to draw equivelance with the clean sack of the rapist was just a desperate attempt to deflect.
I think there’s just been so much talk about Suh and Detroit being thugs that Harrison is feeling all left out, and had to show them up. The lesson to those Lions, of course, is that if you want to avoid punishment, you should play for a team the NFL favors.
I guess tonight is meme night for this thread. This is your second tired comment of the evening.
Umm… His first post about the subject was this:
I’d say that indicates he thinks it was wrong. Anyway, yes, Harrison’s a goon.
Still…gutsy performance from Ben and a great job by the defense clamping down after that first drive. Glad we have a long week before the 49ers to heal up a bit.
Not a deliberate attack on a quartback? Does it matter that he’s looking right at him as he releases the ball and doesn’t lower his head until it’s clearly gone? He initiated the attack after he saw the QB didn’t have the ball. And that’s bad enough even if you didn’t see he obviously attempted to damage McCoy’s brain.
Really? I didn’t see his eyes. Remarkable that you could.
Also, watch it at game speed. You can see anything you want to in slow motion, but when the hit came less than a second after release your claim doesn’t necessarily hold water.
James Harrison is a stupid, stupid man. There is not a person who watches him play that would argue against that. Somebody with his reputation should be very careful to make sure that he doesn’t hit other players like that, but he is incapable of learning and should be punished. But he is not Suh, he doesn’t hurt people on purpose. That requires intelligence that he has never indicated he has. You believe that in that split second he lined Colt McCoy up and teed off on him in front of God and everybody, knowing full well that Goodell was watching and was going to punish the hell out of him? He probably never gave it a thought.
Deliberate? No. Stupid? Absolutely. A stupid play from a stupid man.
Your defense hinges on the idea that it requires a high level of intelligence to want to hurt other people?
And I’m not saying he was thinking about Goodell when he made the hit. He plays to hurt people. An opportunity came up and he took it. It’s entirely consistent with how he’s played his entire career and how he says he’s going to continue playing.
What defense? I haven’t offered one. I’m just disagreeing that it was deliberate.
Good to see that all is as expected in Steelerland. A guy with a history of head shots and fines makes a head shot that will likely result in a fine, and it’s “not deliberate”. Pennsylvania’s ability to apologize and defend it’s football players and programs is something to behold.
Let me retract that last sentence, lest anyone think I was referring to Airman Doors specifically and accusing him of something horrible like supporting what is going on at Penn State. Sorry, Airman, I didn’t mean to leave that implication in there about you.
You know, Hamlet, Philadelphia is in Pennsylvania too.
And I’m not defending Penn State for a second- I’m a Pitt fan.
Let the league sort out Harrison’s hit, he’s not the only player on the defense.
NFL network mentioned that Ben is like Superman- I disagree. Superman would take the hit and comre right back, no injury. I think he’s a lot more like Wolverine, able to recover ultra fast.
Wow, I just saw the hit having got bored with the game last night and switching channels. James Harrison is without question the biggest goddamm price of shit in the NFL. Fuck him and fuck anyone that condones that unconscionable behavior, especially during a time when QBs and receivers thought better protections were to be expected.
Definitely a dirty hit. My question is why would the Browns let McCoy back in the game after that? That doesn’t seem very smart in this day and age?
Let’s ask Harrison himself (from here):
Do you still think it wasn’t deliberate?
My theory on McCoy being stuck back in there is that Shurmur very much wanted to avoid Wallace coming in and scoring the TD and winning the game and being a hero. Colt looks bad enough, yet it seems like they want to hitch themselves to him - but he wants to avoid a quarterback controversy.
Sucks as a Browns fan, because Wallace, who is decent but nothing great, looked like he knew what he was doing more in one play than McCoy has done all year.
Throwing away a chance at winning the game is absolutely dispicable, and if the reasons were to ultimately stick with a QB who can’t hack it so that you can lose even more games down the road - shitty decision from every angle.
I just heard them say that the Steelers clinch a playoff birth if both Oakland and Denver lose. Those happen to be the games on my TV right now and so far so good. I didn’t realize it would be that easy for them.
Oakland is a done deal, but Denver could still win, I guess. (10-0 with about 4 to go.)
