Wanna laugh?

[Docosc]

Football is supposed to be rough, mean, violent and nasty! If you don't like it, then go watch the real housewives or something!

You have obviously never had the misfortune to see any of those travesties. Football is a very gentlemanly pursuit compared to these backstabbing people!

[Starlifter]

Even before JuJu applied partial payback for what Barfict did to Bell and Brown (and Ben?), those two clowns in announcer suits were trying to make Barfict into Mother Theresa with a little Ghandi thrown in.

ESPN decision, in all likelihood. I'll keep that in mind going forward!

the only time I watch espn is when the Steelers are on Monday night. That network lost me years ago. I think they have been awful for a long time - and the comments during the game were absurd.

But now they are concerned about hard hits. I don’t recall gruden ever stopping sapp (a quality character guy) from skipping through opponents during warmups.

And now they’re against hard hits. So says the network of ‘JACKED UP!!!’

[feltdizz]

It makes sense that it was ESPN. They are agenda driven and I thought it was weird when the lady in pregame said “You guys have no idea how nice Burfict is” and went into a slobber fest about spending time with him and his kids.

It it almost felt like the NFL and Burficts agent made a deal to try and change his image.

Almost makes me wonder if that’s why he rode the stretcher off the field instead of walking off. I bet the trainer screamed “stay down, get the people back on your side”

[Captain Lemming]

Football is supposed to be rough, mean, violent and nasty! If you don't like it, then go watch the real housewives or something!

Wait.....aren't real housewives also mean, violent, and even MORE nasty?

[skyhawk]

My feelings exactly. It is amazing how much control the prime time commentators have over the discussion. Reminds me of SBXL. Madden kept whining about legitimate penalties committed by the Seahawks. Postgame, all anyone was talking about was how the refs cost them the game. Afterwards, the former director of officiating was on NFLN and said that the only wrong call was the block below the waist after Ike's int, but people still took Madden's worthless opinion.

BTW, did anyone else notice this on the holding call that brought back the TD? During the replay they were saying that they don't see the penalty. Then, after saying that you see Watt break away from the lineman and the OL grabs his jersey and you see it stretching as he is held back from running away. It is visually blatant. One of those things that you have to call if you can see it. I don't know if Gruden and McDonough just stopped watching or didn't want to backtrack and say "oh, there it is. Now I see it", but the holding call was obvious.

^^^This!

I was just mentioning this to a friend. I lost all respect for Madden after that game. It influenced everyone!

John Madden single handedly ruined that game.

[williar]

Wait.....aren't real housewives also mean, violent, and even MORE nasty?

Lol, You're right! My bad, maybe we should start them on the HSN channels first...