Spoken by the guy that clearly hasn't seen any highlights... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/7mggnKtpQfM&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/7mggnKtpQfM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> Point it out, I dare ya. Hell, we all know the going theme in the NFL right now is it's "fixed". Everybody loves the Steelers and they'll cheat to let them win...blah blah blah. But damn, even the biggest of the pundits don't even share your thoughts on this one.
What are you babbling about baller? Harrison could have politely refused to attend the event but instead he chose to give some truly idiotic reasoning to skip it. Its as simple as that.
Babbling? I made one point: that he turned down an overblown formality that to an accomplished athlete and multimillionaire probably isn't that big of a deal. To you or me? Sure. But to a player like Harrison that's been down this road before it probably isn't. Did he need to publicly state he wasn't going like that? No. Does the fact he did make him an "OMGGZZ IDIOT!!"? No, to that as well.
when you don't seem to understand that only the champions of the sports are generally the only ones invited to the white house, then yeah, you're an idiot no matter what you did in the super bowl.
Harrison is not the brightest man. Neither is Rocketman; he apparently has issues with his memory. http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/090203&sportCat=nfl Seeing what he thought was a mega-blitz, Warner audibled to a slant to Boldin. (Was the play supposed to be a lob-fade to Fitzgerald? I'd love to know.) Six Steelers rushers started forward, then two dropped back into the slant lanes, one on each side. Woodley came barely impeded from Warner's back side -- though the Cardinals had six rushers to block four. Warner sensed Woodley approaching -- if Warner allowed himself to be sacked, that would have ended the half without a field goal attempt. Warner rushed the pass. He threw the ball directly into the arms of Harrison, who surprised him by dropping into the left slant lane. Now the really interesting part starts! Harrison caught the ball at the goal line and started up the right sideline. When he caught the ball, 17 seconds showed on the game clock. Fitzgerald had run a decoy route for Boldin, and was 8 yards behind Harrison when the ball reversed direction; Fitzgerald was the fastest man for either team on the field. For 15 amazing seconds, a hefty linebacker rumbled down the sideline, directly in front of the Arizona bench, three times breaking tackles. Steelers defenders reacted beautifully, not standing around but setting up a six-blocker convoy along the sideline. Arizona's offensive linemen and quarterback Warner reacted beautifully, going all-out to chase Harrison and nearly stopping him. In the end, a big, hefty linebacker lumbered for 15 seconds -- an eternity in football terms -- without being run down by any of the four Arizona speed players on the field at the time. (Two seconds showed on the game clock as Harrison scored -- in the replay confusion, this was missed and the half was ruled over.) Tim Hightower was well-blocked by Woodley at about midfield, then driven to the ground at the 30 in what might have been an uncalled block in the back. (Hightower was turning when he got hit, so TMQ would not have thrown the flag.) Breaston was farthest from Harrison when the play began, and caught him a yard from the goal line. Boldin utterly disappeared during the action -- he was so far from the play I don't know whether he was well-blocked or just quit. Now, about Fitzgerald. Initially he chased Harrison at half-speed, seeming to assume the half was about to end anyway. This is the Super Bowl -- go all-out! Then he chased Harrison madly at full speed, and at about the 25, seemed about to make the tackle; if he had, considering a penalty was called on Arizona during the play, Pittsburgh would have been in position for a half-ending field goal and a 13-7 lead. But at the 25, Fitzgerald slammed into his own out-of-bounds teammate. That white stripe along the sidelines in front of the team box? It's an area where players are not supposed to go, unless speaking to a coach. Technically it's a penalty for players to be standing on the white stripe unless talking to a coach. This foul ("sideline violation") is almost never called. At any rate, as Harrison and his convoy passed the out-of-bounds Cardinals players, veteran Antrel Rolle stepped forward to get a better look. Rolle was just inches from the field of play, and Fitzgerald, struggling to maintain his balance, slammed into Rolle. Fitzgerald is so fast and agile that he still recovered enough to reach Harrison at the goal line, but by then it was too late, and Pittsburgh led 17-7 at the half. The most important, most interesting play of the 2008 season included an Arizona player slamming into his own out-of-bounds teammate along the sideline at the key juncture.
Dude, go back re-read what I wrote. And take me up on my dare while you're at it. I'll be back later tonight to check whatever "I SWEAR I SAW A BLOCK IN THE BACK. THE NFL IS FIXED" halfway intelligent response you can muster up.
That was an incredible play, and perfectly legal in my book. Not really close to a textbook definition of a block in the back. But... just because you make an incredible play in the Super Bowl means you can say whatever you want? Somebody call Dexter Jackson and tell him he can go into a public kindergarten and tell everyone to **** off. wtf kind of homerism is that? you're better than that.
You people are all partially r****ded. He was joking. Did you watch the vid? He was talking about doing a 10 peat and joking. Then he said "naw but really (AKA thats the end of the joking) I don't feel a need to actually go, it is not that big of a deal to me." That is his reason. Not the other stuff he was joking about. If he does not personally feel it is important enough to take away from his kid during HIS OFFSEASON, how can you disagree. These guys work constantly during the football season and the season is getting longer and more involved now.
Joking or not he went on the record and said it with a straight face. So its still a stupid thing to say to the media regardless.
It seemed to me like he was only referring only to the part about winning 10 rings, not the comments as a whole.
I thought it was pretty clear that he was joking about winning all those titles...the stuff previous wasnt said in a joking manner.
I've seen and heard all the little conspiracy theories. Even in the Hangout, here. People muster up these little half-assed "the league fixes it so the Steelers can win" type of nonsense arguments. Groogux's post about the imaginary block in the back sounded like it was headed in that direction so I responded accordingly. Trust me, if this had been the Texans you would be sensitive to this type of crap too.
