Urlachers take
Guess I’m not the only one upset with the pussification of football.

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The NFL to stop selling these photos.

I hope that these fines/suspensions are limited to especially flagrant hits to the head and neck that are maliciously intent. Violent hitting and intimidation is inherent to the game and I would hate to see a player “let up” before making contact for fear of drawing a penalty or worse. That can put the tackler at increased risk, IMO.

Jay Cutler and Kyle Orton. Have at it.

At the end of the day, I think that the NFL has to decide if football is evolving in a way that will sell tickets and still be true to the traditions of the sport. I personally don’t like where the sport is headed. I’m old school. I like the football of Ditka and Butkus. As Urlacher said, injuries are part of the game and that is indeed some part of the reason that ballplayers make more money than the average person. If I had the physical ability to play pro, I would jump at the chance and screw the injuries, to tell you the truth.

…and not doing interviews, until the next 6+ sack game for Cutler.

money is everything, and anyone denying it is complete liar. The NFL is no different than any other corporate giant. Just like the company I work for….Wells Fargo.

the game though is comparatively different now than it was in butkus’ day. weight, size, speed, training, viciousness, all of these have improved over the past 75 years of the sport… yes, injuries occur, but isn’t about minimizing injury and maintaining some sense of team continuity?

these are people, not rag dolls. i agree in principle that more needs to be done to protect the players to prevent the sins of the past, but, this move though, doesn’t really do it for me… malicious intent is too much of a gray area.

For millions upon millions of dollars.

I just don’t get how the NFL expects these guys to adjust their bodies in mid air at full speed to avoid helmet to helmet hits. Do they really think the guys laying the big hits want to be going helmet to helmet anymore than the guy on the receiving end?

The funny thing is if massaqoui had just caught the ball he would have been upright and got clocked in the chest but he bobbled it and started to fall to the ground which made harrison’s big hit turn into something illegal, how the hell is Harrison supposed to adjust himself at full speed? Same goes for the heap hit. It was a freak hit because another pat hit his legs first which adjusted his body in mid air and went from merriweather getting him in the chest/shoulder to him unfortunately getting him facemask to facemask.

Herr Goodell is all about making conformist machines who do everything exactly the same, lost in the fray of all the big hit fines is the NFL fined Darnell dockery 5 grand because his socks were too low, what a effin joke.

But, “devastating hits” and the rest of this stuff? Put flags on them! The only dirty hit out of the ones that drew fines on Sunday was the Meriweather hit, the rest were all legal.

Let’s see Harrison or Meriweather lead with their noggins then.

Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead

Maybe to change the official account of the incident, but the fines go to charity, and I have a hard time believing someone like Harrison cannot pay $75 000.

http://www.chicagobears.com/news/NewsStory.asp?story_id=7205

I’m gonna go ahead and let you take it from there.