Oowner Art Rooney and head coach Mike Tomlin met with Commissioner Goodell and NFL football operations staff yesterday in New York City to get on a better page regarding lot of calls and fines Steelers players have been hit with according to Jay Glazer of FOXSports.
This is similar to the type of meeting Goodell had with Ndamukong Suh recently but this meeting instead actually included owner and head coach of Steelers. It sounds like the hit that Ryan Clark was fined for against Ed Dickson of the Ravens is the call really in question.
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Jolene
November 18, 2011 at 6:29 pm
What about the hits our guys have received but penalties were never brought against the other team. Like the one with HInes? This is crap…same as the year when Harrison was fined. Always fining the Steelers, but the other teams get away with it.
Clint
November 22, 2011 at 1:37 am
You Steelers yinzers are unbelievable. Your team is the dirtiest bunch of low-lifes in the NFL. Why don’t you pop a bottle of WHINE and CRY into you towel.
jay
November 22, 2011 at 7:49 pm
And the tears will moisten the towels up enough to polish our 6 Lombardi’s with you douche bag!
Steeddie
November 18, 2011 at 7:07 pm
I agree with Jolene how about all the calls when steelers get hit? The guy that almost took out Harrison,s eye, what aboutnhim? What about last season Ngata broke Rothlisberger’s nose and it didn’t even merit a flag? And suddenly a late hit is 40k?
It speaks volumes that its now a recurring joke on the web and social networks, even amongst fans of other teams and some sports comemtators how the steelers get fined by anything and big sums at that.
DrGeorge
November 18, 2011 at 8:14 pm
NFL football is a multi-billion dollar business, a business franchise that R. Goodell is charged with protecting and expanding. The question of fairness on the field of play strikes at the very heart of the fan loyalty on which the entire league is built. Whether it is true or not, there is today an appearance of injustice in the way NFL rules are unevenly applied, as if targeting some players and some teams. That perception is contrary to the image of fairness on which the game depends.
The relationship between fans and sports entertainment is a very tenuous one. One need only look to Major League Baseball or the NBA to see how fragile that connection is. Goodell would be well advised to receive Rooney and Tomlin with courtesy, listen to their concerns and suggestions, and then come up with better means for safeguarding player safety. Drafting special contact rules for QBs and WRs implies that the welfare of other players is of secondary concern. Helmet to helmet contact, to take one example, occurs on nearly every play and at all positions. Often the man being tackled initiates such contact, by bending forward to protect the ball and his body, and thereby lowering his helment into the defender.
If the NFL is really concerned about eliminating concussions — as opposed to ratings and money — then draft contact rules for all players and apply them evenhandedly. Requiring players to make fine adjustments in tackling technique while both are converging at top speed is simply not working well. NFL rules have simply become too legalistic, resulting in too many flags, too many reviews, and too many judgment calls that determine the outcome of games and turn off fans. If Goodell cannot come up with a better approach to protecting players, then perhaps the NFL owners should come up with a better commissioner.
George H
November 18, 2011 at 9:49 pm
Amen brother
kevin
November 19, 2011 at 12:36 am
I have been say this for years this has this is a steelers rule to slow down our aversion
jay
November 21, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I have no idea what Kevin is talking about but I could not agree more with you, Doc! I would like to add that the (savvy) Rooneys picked a very strategic time to have their meeting with cocksucker Goodell…Late in the year whilst it is still fresh in his mind…Since bullshit rolls down hill, I can almost guarantee you that you won’t see any (egregious) calls against Steelers players from here on out…To the contrarian that might opine that if that’s the case, why not wait until even later until the playoffs roll around to which I say that the NFL, like Doc alluded to, is also savvy and, in a shorter (playoff) season where the law of percentages dictates that there is a lesser likelihood for “concussions” and “injuries” than in a 16 game season, the NFL litigates more loosely and trumps it up to competition than anything else! This is the PERFECT time for the Rooneys to have met with him…coming off a bye and with only 6 games left; almost like they’re saying to the one who thinks he’s God, “Now leave us the fuck alone while we position ourselves for a top seed in the playoffs!”
kevin
November 19, 2011 at 12:43 am
Too slow down our persuad too the ball that what we are great at among other things.