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 | NFL Player Booted After Stomping Player's Face | Local 6 | Mon Oct 2 | 2 |
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{"commentId":311447,"authorDomain":"ryanstone"}
is there a photo of him doing it?
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#1 - Sun Oct 1, 2006 11:10 PM EDT{"commentId":311718,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
I saw the video footage last night - it was nasty. The cowboy was on his side, with his helmet having fallen off, and this guy, after the play ended, just picked up his foot and drug it across the cowboys face.
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{"commentId":311727,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
ESPN has some video footage of it on their story for the incident:
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{"commentId":312055,"authorDomain":"firsty"}
he should be suspended without pay for the remainder of the season and forced into anger management therapy.
i'd like to say that he should be suspended for the rest of his career, but since it was a cowboy he stepped on, he deserves some leniency.
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#2 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 12:59 PM EDT{"commentId":312123,"authorDomain":"bendavis"}
Agreed. Anything less is being too lenient.
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{"commentId":312133,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
If it was, a hockey player who commited such a blantant act to maliciously harm a defenseless person I can guarantee the penalty would be stiff.
Bruin Marty McSorley slashed Vancouver's Donald Brashear from behind, sending Brashear, skull down, crashing to the ice and knocking him unconscious. The NHL suspended McSorley for the last 23 games of the 1999-200 season, effectively ending his NHL career. McSorley stood trial in Canada and was found guilty of assault with a weapon, but didn't serve any time in prison.
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"I anticipate that there will be those who will say that Mr. Bertuzzi's 17-month suspension is inadequate," Bettman said in a statement. "I disagree."
Bertuzzi was suspended for the final 13 regular-season games of the 2003-04 season and the Stanley Cup playoffs. His punishment continued throughout last season's NHL lockout, which kept Bertuzzi from playing in the World Cup of Hockey last September and the past two world championships.
He also was barred from playing in any European league last season...The suspension cost Bertuzzi $501,926.39 in salary. -- source ESPN.com
In addition, the Canucks were fined $250,000. -- source about.com
Neither of those punishments were severe enough and I am certain Haynesworth's won't be either. Heck, Peter King (of SI) last night after MNF suggested he would get a "substantial fine of about $25,000 but no suspension". What a crock.
What tihs guy did, in my opinion, is no different than the cold and callous acts of those two hockey players. All three willfully attempted to do serious bodilly injury to another, unsuspecting player. Gurode is lucky his eye wasn't hit by Haynesworth's attack. The guy Bertuzzi attacked (Steve Moore) had his career ended by the event. McSorley's victim (Donald Brashear) at least was able to resume his playing career.
In none of the professional sports leagues do they punish players severely enough for their violent actions. They'll ban you for life for making a bet but break a guy's neck and we'll keep paying you $5 million/year (Bertuzzi).
It's crazy.
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{"commentId":312151,"authorDomain":"firsty"}
there is a certain risk assumed when you strap on the pads, however. each injury that was caused by intent to harm could also just as easily been caused by an accident.
in these cases, i'm wary about applying the rule of govt law. i'm more in favor of lifetime banning from the sport (or all professional sports) and possible civil-type action (to compensate for the victim's loss of pay, medical expenses, forced retirement, etc), but even in those cases, i'd rather the burden of investigation, examination and judgment be handled by each league and not by actual civil courts.
if bertuzzi or, earlier, mcsorley, had been deemed unfit to play by the NHL and forever banned from the league, intentional actions like this would quickly end. there arent many to begin with, fortunately, but i do agree that the leagues need to be more firm with their punishment. if mcsorley, for example, had lost his career and been forced by the league to pay the future expenses and brashear's loss of salary, that would carry a lot of weight, and the NHL would have one fewer thug on their hands.
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#3 - Mon Oct 2, 2006 1:51 PM EDT{"commentId":312155,"authorDomain":"finalcut"}
that was my point though not as clearly stated as you made it.
I think in all three of these examples (the two hockey and this football incident) the intentional nature of the act is blatantly obvious. It's a shame the leagues just don't really lay down the law. But, between them and the damn player unions which don't really care about the players (just the money) I doubt there will ever be any real punishment handed out to these scrubs.
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{"commentId":312305,"authorDomain":"colemanm"}
I see no reason that someone shouldn't press criminal charges in cases like this. Not only is it unsportsmanlike and unacceptable on the field, that would get you thrown in jail outside the stadium...
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- 4 votes
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