I think it would be appropriate to have the Fins and Texans play on Wild Card weekend...I would be happy to travel to Houston and exact revenge for Keller and stomp and cut Smith for 60 minutes...oh year, stop the winless streak versus Houston.
Adam Schefter just reported that Smith is suspended the last two preseason games....Big deal. Whoopi ding.
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Commish did him a favor.
Albert Haynesworth got what, 5 games? What he did was only marginally worse. I'm stunned it was only 2 preseason games.
For everyone who was bitching about Swearinger's hit: THIS is what dirty looks like.
The two preseason games thing is a ****ing joke, if true. Goodell would basically be sentencing Antonio Smith to play in the number of preseason games he thinks everybody should be playing in. Not only that, but look at the message it sends overall. Guys are getting suspended four regular season games for PED violations, or for smoking pot or drinking when they shouldn't. Meanwhile this asshat beans a guy in the head with a helmet and loses like $5,000 in paychecks?
The NCAA and professional sports have developed their own Judicial Branches and serve to destroy fair play with the exact same exercise of favoritism and unfair treatment of players that they claim to protect. There's a ton of more appropriate legal and qualitative language that better describe the pure sham of equality being exercised by these institutions.
I remember when the government started sniffing around certain issues in professional sports that most fans questioned the waste of government resources in these matters. I personally believe the NCAA and professional sports leagues should have an independent higher authority in regards to player rights and oversight of fair, equal and consistent application of punishments and fines.
These systems are allowed to operate with total amnesty with regards to their stated intentions. I don't know what the answer is... but absolute power has indeed corrupted absolutely within these institutions and organizations.
blah, blah, blah... I'm done talking. I have a headache.