We're starting to get the feeling that the Jets and Dolphins view the actual game they're currently playing as a pesky sideline to their feud.
A week, an entire season actually, of sniping back and forth between the teams culminated in a shouting match between Jets safety Kerry Rhodes and Dolphins linebacker Joey Porter during pregame warmups. The players then exchanged a few pushes and shoves before they were pulled apart by Jason Taylor and other Dolphins players. CBS cameras captured the scrap and aired footage just before kickoff.
The teams are scoreless halfway through the first quarter of their second and final meeting of the 2009 season, which you can follow on NFL.com. Something tells us that they may find other ways to keep the fires burning until they meet next year, however.
Kerry Rhodes, Joey Porter in shoving match during warmups
Posted by Josh Alper on November 1, 2009 1:22 PM ET
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And this is EXACTLY why Porter does this. So an article (any article) gets printed.
I see the following PFT.COM Headline in the future......
FORMER NFL PLAYER JOEY PORTER FOUND LIVING IN CARDBOARD BOX
Porter doesn't just mouth off to get coverage. It's his personality. He has a fiery, passionate personality. He acts that way in practice when no reporters are around. He's also a big motivational presence in the locker room, and he has a lot of other good qualities--like being able to man up when he screws up.
Joey and Seattle tight end Jerramy Stevens got into a war of words before SBXL. After the game, reporters tried to goad Joey into ramming Seattle's loss down Stevens's throat--especially given that Stevens played poorly and had a couple of big drops that cost Seattle. But Porter refused and told the reporters he didn't have any show-stopping plays in the game, he didn't do anything big either so who was he to rub it into Jerramy's face.
That's called character--the kind you don't have when you wish a guy would end up homeless just because you don't like his football team.