Week 15

[coffee]

Originally Posted by Giantone

AS well as he should have ,the NFL had to and they did do the right thing but again the refs aren't getting enough of the blame and nether is Norman for the knee to ODB head .Really the black baseball bat is a punk move and I'll bet some good beer it won't be done this week.

So much back and forth happened that it's hard to keep up with, but I don't remember that, though it very well may have happened. Do you know when it happened? I definitely saw the play where Norman dropped/pushed OBJ to the ground and I thought he should get a flag for that, but I don't remember the knee.

As for the refs, They warned both coaches. I liked that they were trying to avoid throwing flags early on and I love a 'let 'em play' approach by the refs. As it progressed, though, I agree that it got out of hand and OBJ should have been ejected, but just for the one hit. I think everything else was childish (on both players' parts) and flag-worthy but not ejection-worthy.

I don't know, but I assume the refs didn't see that hit. If they had, I think they'd have known right away that ignoring it would mean discipline for them. So, I think it was a big miss by them, but that's all it was.

Sorry, but the bat thing is stupid. At best it's like a rapist saying "The way she was dressed, she was just asking to be raped."

Mostly though I'm just PO'd at the media. This started out a boring game but turned into one of the best games of the year, with all kinds of playoff implications and great plays, yet the ONLY focus is on this story and figuring blame and conspiracy stories to keep it going as long as possible.

As a Panther fan, sure, I could whine about OBJ. G1 could cry about bats. I think both of us would agree that there are a heckuva lot of other things we'd prefer to spend our time seeing every time we turn on ESPN.