THREATENED RETIREMENT: PLEASE DO IT


There are definitely bigger stooges that the three pictured in the too small image on the left. Most, but not all, play in the NFL.



They seemingly want to cause life threatening, career ending injuries to opposing players. I'm not talking about a good, pad-popping tackle. I'm talking about assault. Spearing a player by leading with the helmet resulting in a violent collision. One that caused paralysis to a Rutger's football player on Saturday.

So after three brutal hits past Sunday, the NFL took action adding suspensions to the fines. And now some players are squawking about it as if it were their right to make more players look like Muhammad Ali in later years. Ali is living proof of what taking too many hits to the cranium can and will do.

The biggest cry baby, a linebacker from Pittsburgh (surprise) James Harrison threatened to retire from football. He even sat out a practice. That's showing 'em James. I wish he and any other headhunters on any of the teams would follow suit. But, hey, as they say out here, "Cowboy up." Retire or shut up about it and play by the rules.

I know it's football. I appreciate the speed and the hard hits in the game. But I have been in stadiums where on more than one occasion a player has had to be carted off the field. Where he was lying unconscious. It's a terrible thing to witness, much like seeing a car wreck happen.

So, just play the game. Play it hard, but not cheap. "Hit 'em fair and hit 'em square" an old, old cheer used to go. I don't know of any that say "and keep your trap shut," but it seems to apply to Harrison and a bevy of other complainers these days.