Schefter says Harrison suspension coming Tuesday

[SteelerNation1]

Per his twitter. What a joke.

[Eddie Spaghetti]

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ridiculous, if true.

[Sugar]

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If true, he should appeal. IMO, he has a good case.

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

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If true, he should appeal. IMO, he has a good case.

Can he play during appeal?

We could use him against SF.

[Discipline of Steel]

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We knew this was going to happen before the season started

[steeler_fan_in_t.o.]

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The sense in Pittsburgh and around the league is that the NFL will wind up suspending Steelers LB James Harrison on Tuesday morning.

This is the quote from his twitter account. It does not say "inside sources" or "per a league source", it pretty much says that a bunch of people think that he will be suspended. Maybe the people on morning radio, fan message boards etc.......but in no way does it indicate that anyone in the league office has made a decision.

[Discipline of Steel]

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Give up all hope and seek your family. The apocolypse is nigh.

[_SteeL_CurtaiN_]

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I'm sorry but the F in NFL is rapidly approaching F(a)G status.

[pfelix73]

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I still say this league needs competition with another league...I'm starting to really hate the NFL...Bunch of pansies.....

[SteelerNation1]

Re: Schefter says Harrison suspension coming Tuesday

The sense in Pittsburgh and around the league is that the NFL will wind up suspending Steelers LB James Harrison on Tuesday morning.

This is the quote from his twitter account. It does not say "inside sources" or "per a league source", it pretty much says that a bunch of people think that he will be suspended. Maybe the people on morning radio, fan message boards etc.......but in no way does it indicate that anyone in the league office has made a decision.

Schefter is the "inside source." he doesn't float garbage info. I hope he's wrong but he's usually dead on.

[_SteeL_CurtaiN_]

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this just in adam shefter played football until he got his a$$ destroyed by someone twice his size and has ever since been on a crusade to "save" the small and weak. There is no place for hitting in this glorious game called football ( at least in americia ). Throw throw thorow you wonmderful Tommy tom tom!! brokeback? NO THANKS!!!


Pass me a tissue yinz f'in pansie wee todd's across this pansified nation, think the china man is worried about this sheet? Hell no he's working on ways to slaughtwer our...sorry where was I.



Fire the pollicically incorrect cannpons and damm the torpedoes this is bull$heet and totally unfair. Ben is soiled, the media hates/loves Ward, Harrison was arrested for murder in 2000 and had to plea.... no...was it...no....couldn't be...G(a)y..G(a)y?

James Harrision may not be the most upstanding citizen, ( Ben may not be either ) the world has known but last I checked he has never been arrested for murder has he? If it were not for the national crotch groveling over this wee-tood in tights by the conglomerate media such as ESPN and FOX this guy would be known as the criminal element in the game of football.

HOW THE FU@K CAN ANYONE LIKE RAY LEWIS???


Pi$$

[SanAntonioSteelerFan]

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I ask again - does the appeal process allow the player to play until a final determination is made?

[Mel Blount's G]

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I still say this league needs competition with another league...I'm starting to really hate the NFL...Bunch of pansies.....

I've been saying this for about 2 years felix. I am watching less and less of the sport I love because stuff like this really gets to me. Yes, it's true, I shouldn't let it, but it does and I am slowly, gradually losing interest in the game. James Harrison sHould be hailed as one of THE premier linebackers of the last several years. All the great ones before him made their mark doing what he is doing: Playing so ferociously that oppponents actually give up and quit. Not literally of course, but players on the field know when it happens. When an opposing player just wants no part of THAT action and are just punching the clock so to speak. We've heard the sports cliche "Imposing one's will on the opposition". See "James Harrison" for example "A". Nobody in the league thinks he is dirty but Goodell has a campaign to make James the poster boy for..i dunno....EVIL?...in the NFL. Though from everyone else James gets praise and accolades. So yes, Mark Cuban,...SOMEBODY!...ANYBODY! ...start another league and bring it back to what we all love. Tackle Football!

[hawaiiansteel]

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Madden: Harrison deserves suspension

Mark Madden Times Sports Correspondent | Posted: Sunday, December 11, 2011


James Harrison's helmet-to-facemask hit on Cleveland quarterback Colt McCoy Thursday was sinister, malicious and designed to injure. Any other notion is just plain idiotic.

Steelers linebacker Harrison has mostly been a changed man since his $125K shakedown at the hands of NFL commissioner Roger Goodell last season. But the blow to McCoy's cranium spotlighted the old Harrison (the real Harrison?) at his nastiest.

Harrison lowered his helmet and drilled McCoy in the head. It was deliberate and explosive.

Not only was McCoy concussed, Harrison's illegal action affected the game's outcome.

His brains scrambled, McCoy served up a red-zone interception to the Steelers' Willie Gay. The Browns had a chance to take a 10-7 lead with time ticking down. Instead, they lost 14-3.

Yinzer Nation apologists are out in full force, citing scripture and verse regarding gray areas in the NFL rulebook that might put Harrison in the clear.

The most popular notion is that McCoy was fair game, losing protection afforded quarterbacks because he was attempting to advance the ball as a runner.

That's nonsense. McCoy was still acting as a quarterback, evidenced by the fact that he threw the ball and drew a roughing the passer penalty. Furthermore, the rulebook safeguards every player, regardless of position, from helmet-to-helmet hits.
Harrison is a repeat offender. Gray areas shouldn't protect him. Zero benefit of the doubt.

Harrison should be suspended. Media sources say the NFL is considering a one- or two-game ban.

Harrison delivered a fistful of questionable hits last season. Perhaps the deterring effect of fines has worn off. Maybe Harrison was frustrated by having to sweat a difficult result against an easy opponent. At any rate, HE DID IT AGAIN. The next logical step is suspension.

A suspension would anger Harrison. But it wouldn't change Harrison. Harrison doesn't want to change. Harrison had played 16 games since his last dodgy tackle. That's not that long.

Harrison's demeanor after the McCoy hit showed no remorse. He just made excuses. I bet Harrison relished blowing up McCoy. Harrison loved delivering that shot.

Fining Harrison large amounts last season didn't make him think twice Thursday.

Suspending him might actually be waving a red cape in front of the bull.

No matter. The NFL needs to act. Harrison should be banned for for at least one game.

But it probably won't happen that way. Harrison will absorb another big fine (six figures this time?), perhaps saved from suspension by the Steelers' Monday Night Football date with San Francisco. Goodell won't want to affect competitive balance in a marquee game via suspension, nor will he want Harrison to become that contest's focal point in absentia.

Maybe Harrison will get suspended next time. And there will be a next time. Harrison had me believing he had changed. But his credibility vanished Thursday.

After Harrison gets whatever punishment the NFL levies, everyone will again be subject to Harrison's (and the Steelers') thoughts about the "man's game" football should be, and used to be. I'm not interested. Football is what the NFL decrees it to be. Play it their way, or go bounce in a strip joint.

Football gave Harrison everything he has. Harrison works hard for it. But he's still an employee. There are rules. I don't want to hear Harrison's idealist rantings or his explanations.

But the Browns certainly have some explaining to do. Cleveland management claims McCoy was medically cleared to return, but I'm guessing an examination conducted during two plays wasn't very thorough. McCoy's dad had it right: The signs of a concussion were obvious, even from a distance. Heed common sense. Seneca Wallace might have won that game.

That said, if I'm McCoy, a 25-year-old professional, I'm not crazy about my father acting as my media spokesman. "Aw, dad...not in front of the guys!"

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[phillyesq]

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I ask again - does the appeal process allow the player to play until a final determination is made?

Not entirely sure, but I believe they can hear the appeal very quickly like they did with Suh.