Comments on: James Harrison gets called to the principal's office

By: Mel Kiper IV

Mel Kiper IV — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:47:38 +0000

Badell informs him that starting the 12th week of the season, all of the players will be wearing dresses and will not be allowed to tackle anyone. The League is going to become touch football. And, crying on the field will not only be allowed, but encouraged. Especially when it’s that time of the month…Badell wasn’t available for comment because he felt bloated and had “awful cramps”.

By: Spacemonkey

Spacemonkey — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 22:24:10 +0000

“Stiller idiot” here. I refuse to type in all caps, and won’t set foot in a WalMart. Apologies if my words are too big for you.
What I find entertaining about James Harrison is that the man is what, 4 feet tall? Honestly, look at how short he is. But he still weighs as much as I do, and he’s all muscle, with thighs like tree trunks – the man can move. Now that said, consider how difficult it must be for a 6’8″ offensive lineman to get an arm around him and try to “stand him up” when he’s already standing up… Talk to an offensive lineman someday if you get the chance, that is priority number one for the position: Stand up the pass rushers, so your weight advantage shifts momentum and takes away their leverage.
There’s a perfectly logical reason for him getting held all the time, whether you think it is fair or not, or on purpose or not. It does happen, and happens a *lot* more than it does for linebackers that are a foot taller. The tape don’t lie
Surprised at all the Ravens fans that hate Harrison. I’ll wager if he played for your team you would all follow him off a cliff. He plays hard on every play, tries to be a complete linebacker – and works very hard on coverage and does many things your prototypical pass rusher wouldn’t dare try – and he does it very well, well enough to be called the Defensive MVP.
Really, no more Ravens fans hating on James Harrison. It just makes no sense, man! Ravens fans are defense-hungry fiends, and a good player is a good player, no matter the team. Counterpoint – if someone told me my Steelers had managed a trade for Ngata, I’d bang my head on the ceiling from jumping up and down so hard. Imagine a four-man line with Ngata and Hampton inside!
/me runs off to fantasize about a defensive line that could crush a small elementary school with their bare hands, in one single pass.

By: Blackn'Gold

Blackn'Gold — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:42:07 +0000

Well perhaps Commissioner Goodell could learn to tell the officials to start calling holding calls on the offensive tackles that can’t handle Harrison. A couple of years ago, James Harrison was Defensive Player of the Year. Ever since then there’s been a concerted effort to help offenses deal with his playing skill, namely holding. It almost never gets called. But there it is on film.
Just make the call. Blow the whistle. The play stops and the precious quarterback is saved for another play. And if the left tackle can’t deal with Harrison then it’s time to get a new offensive tackle.
GO STEELERS!

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:23:18 +0000

olskool711
who do you watch the ravens? that get all the calls or pats ? I will admit when the Steelers hold and when they get away with it but Watch Harrison the next game against the Bengals and see how much he is held.

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:15:59 +0000

BradyGazelle
he clearly kept his head up , your just stupid and apparently blind, watch the play before you talk. there was no spearing involved a little late is all it was. Brees wasn’t event shooken up. He hit him with his chest.

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:11:22 +0000

Phokus
you are the typical person that has no clue about football, Pittsburgh is on the bad end of a call 9 out of 10 times. Games that are fixed are for the ravens, jets, Patriots. Steelers have never had a fixed game, get over the fact that they win when the win and lose when they lose. Harrison never gets a holding call and if you noticed he is the only one that they are applying the rules to. What about that guy that hit Farve helmet to helmet split his chin. He won’t get fined. So tell me how are the games fixed?

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 21:04:19 +0000

FinFan6886
lots of people do get held but no to the extreme of Harrison. And when Pit holds it is called usually so you could go powder your nose.

By: Spoonthis

Spoonthis — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:19:46 +0000

@ I didn’t hear no bell.
“Harrison is a nobody who hits hard and in many cases, illegally. Take that away from him and he’ll be exposed for what he is.”
Possibly the dumbest comment I’ve read on here to date. James Harrison was the defensive player of the year in 2008. He should have been the MVP of Super Bowl XLIII or at least co-MVP. He had the greatest play by a defensive player in Super Bowl history but you call him a nobody. He has 16 forced fumbles in the the past 3 years (4 more than any other defensive player in the same amount of time) and you call him a nobody. Too funny. Watch much football or do you just spew nonsense all the time?
I hope James left that meeting and handed GODell a blank check. Saying that he is a FOOTBALL PLAYER. Not some pussy that is gonna bow down to “the Commish” and stop playing with the desire and skill that he has learned over his lifetime. The sad thing is that sooooo many fans, players, coaches and owners would love, love , love to have a tough SOB on their team. The haters hate because of their loyalty to another team. The Steelers have an identity of employing hard nosed players that give everything they have, on every play and never give up. They draft tough players and teach them their system. Run the ball and stop the run and win Lombardi’s. Hate all you want (and us Steelers fans love the hated because it means we are doing something right) but this is a proud franchise that has done things right for many decades.
Go Harrison, Go Tomlin, Go Dan & Art Jr. God bless the “CHIEF”. And most of all, GO STEELERS.

By: superb owl

superb owl — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 20:10:53 +0000

he’s on dope. who the hell cares what he thinks?

By: seventhheaven7

seventhheaven7 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 19:04:11 +0000

Roger Goodell needs come to his senses and quit treating the NFL like a girly league and let players like Harrison do some real hitting.

By: FinFan6886

FinFan6886 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:41:05 +0000

Harrisonheld16 says:
November 3, 2010 5:24 PM
olskool711
9 out of 10 times Pittsburgh is on the bad end of a call.
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If you truly believe that, then you must be drunk or high while you watch the games. Everybody gets held all the time…it’s not just Harrison. Even objective Steeler fans (all nine of ‘em) would say that the Steelers get more than their fair share of “game-changing” calls.

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:34:23 +0000

MDS, if Harrison requested the meeting, how was he called to the principal’s office? I understand the temptation to go for the tantalizing head, but you should have an internal caution light when it comes to veering that far over the truth line.
Massaquoi was a bad hit. Goodell should have capped the fine at $50,000 simply because he made the issue more about Harrison than about the NFL’s renewed commitment to enforce its longstanding policy. James is a passionate guy. He got upset and took it too far. But he’d finally notched it back and the whole thing had died down … when this needlessly stirred it up again.
It was a late hit on Brees, and the flag was appropriate, but that should be the end of it. I honestly don’t know whether the NFL is contemplating a fine or whether that’s just something bloggers have concocted. It’s admirable that James is taking Colbert and going to the horse’s mouth to get an explanation. This particular horse tends to talk out of both sides of his mouth, but at least James is handling it in mature fashion this time. Let’s wait and hear how it goes.

By: 3octaveFart

3octaveFart — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 18:31:02 +0000

PARavensJeff says: November 3, 2010 4:05 PM
“Well I was going to spellcheck, but I knew this would get the usual Stiller moron fan comments!! Actually this crappy keyboard @ work sucks”
yeah, I imagine those chinese made PC’s you sell at Walmart sure aren’t worth a damn.

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:27:32 +0000

olskool711 Also everyone in the 70′s used steroids because they did not check for them. Check your facts moron.

By: Harrisonheld16

Harrisonheld16 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:24:12 +0000

olskool711
You clearly know nothing about football. The Steelers would have still won that Superbowl even if that wasn’t a touchdown. Do you recall the time Polamalu was robbed of a pick in the playoff game against the Colts? Or how Harrison never gets a holding call when he is basically raped on every other play? 9 out of 10 times Pittsburgh is on the bad end of a call. So my point is even without that touchdown in the Superbowl Steelers still win and they have had consistently bad refs, especially because Harrison and Woodly are held combined up to 60 to 70 times a game and they have only had 2 holding calls this season. That’s bad officiating. Harrison was saying he was going to retire because the rules clearly only apply to him and also that’s how he learned football, so he was not being a baby when he said that.

By: Art Van Delay's brother

Art Van Delay's brother — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:43:35 +0000

@PARavensJeff
I didn’t know 711′s had PC’s and keyboards! Keep selling those slurpies, America needs the little people.

By: steelersmichele

steelersmichele — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:43:00 +0000

PARavensJeff: Ray Lewis has a clean record, no criminal charges on it, he got probation for what he was charged w/ & then wiped clean after he served the probation for a year. So in reality, you have nothing to say about Ray Lewis because he has a clean record.
Yeah, Ben has a clean record, too (no arrests, no charges, no guilty verdict), and he got suspended for 4 games–so if that excuse works for Ray, then it better damn well work for Ben (in other words, your Ravens fans have to stop calling him a rapist if you want us to stop calling Ray a murderer)
But this is about a Steelers player going to meet with the Commish about the way the game is and should be played. What other player has done this?
Then again, some of you will definately say the fix is in and he’s going to bribe Goodell.

By: notwhoyouthinkitis

notwhoyouthinkitis — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:18:04 +0000

This is a classic example of a very lazy reporter, Smith, making up a false headline. The second paragraph of the linked story to the Pittsburgh Post Gazette (the second link in this article) clearly states: "It was not clear who requested the meeting with Goodell,..." What part of "It was not clear who requested the meeting..." can Smith not comprehend? So the typical anti-Steeler writer comes up with "Harrison *gets called* to the principal's office" lie. The sad thing is that you can bet Smith won't even bother to acknowledge his lie or correct it. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10307/1100296-100.stm#ixzz14FhsGmW1

By: whocaresaboutdallas

whocaresaboutdallas — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:12:59 +0000

The Steelers are talented enough that they will beat every team if the players play up to their potential, even if some starters are missing. If you want to whine (like the haters are above), then by all means go right ahead.
Are you sure? Typical stepford steeler fan.
Ok – so what was the excuse last year? 8-8

By: Just JTO

Just JTO — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:11:43 +0000

I truly wish James would have given GODell a head-to-head hit. That would have been priceless.

By: thereallacardsfan

thereallacardsfan — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:08:36 +0000

Harrison is a punk. How he wasn’t ejected from the superbowl for punching a defenseless player in the back of the head is beyond me.
Oh wait he plays for the steelers

By: contract

contract — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:07:46 +0000

“Indefinite suspension. Guy is too careless and will kill someone soon. If Goodell doesn’t suspend him, that death will be in his hands.”
Yeah … and Chris Simms had his spleen ruptured because Al Wallace hit him in the noggin. Right? A player is no less likely to die from a blow to the body.

By: PARavensJeff

PARavensJeff — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:05:04 +0000

Art Van Delay’s brother says:
November 3, 2010 3:06 PM
I was going to comment on the meeting, but PARavensJeff post is a classic moron Baltimore fan. Spell check moron…spell check.
Well I was going to spellcheck, but I knew this would get the usual Stiller moron fan comments!! Actually this crappy keyboard @ work sucks, but its worth it to see the Stiller scum froth @ the mouth & start throwing around their usual stupid comebacks about Ray Lewis & such. Ray Lewis has a clean record, no criminal charges on it, he got probation for what he was charged w/ & then wiped clean after he served the probation for a year. So in reality, you have nothing to say about Ray Lewis because he has a clean record.

By: FloriosHairHat

FloriosHairHat — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:59:19 +0000

# TakingBackSundays says: November 3, 2010 3:19 PM
“Talk about a deluded fan base.”
Not deluded. It’s just sometimes easy to become a bit disoriented after staring into the blinding brilliance generated by six trophies standing next to each other.
Lucky for you, you don’t have that problem.

By: FinFan6886

FinFan6886 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:58:00 +0000

Harrison does hit hard and sometimes shit happens. He runs his mouth trying to sound tough and when the league hears that garbage he no longer gets nor deserves the benefit of the doubt. The questionable calls will not go his way because he is a dumb thug and loves to act that way. He can hit hard, just not illegally. His little temper tantrum/retirement meltdown did not help his case.

By: SteelTown-6

SteelTown-6 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:50:32 +0000

# PARavensJeff says: November 3, 2010 2:57 PM
“The Steeers & their fans clim to be so tough, but in reality they are the biggets criers/whiners in the league!!”
LMAO…
Have a listen to your fans following a loss, ANY loss.
The Ratbirds fans whining is the stuff of legends…

By: Bdrunk

Bdrunk — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:49:53 +0000

MACHINE GUN IBIZA says:
November 3, 2010 3:23 PM
“Like you can talk about THUGS. Heck Ray Lewis KILLED somebody and the Ravens extended his contract and named a street after him.”
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What idiot wrote that? All Lewis did was act as an accessory to murder and when he was tried he hired a high priced lawyer and then turned snitch on the guys he was with.
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Nuh uh. Ray totally pulled the trigger. I heard it on the internet.

By: andyprough

andyprough — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:47:41 +0000

Harrison and Goodell met in New York.
Goodell will be out for 2-3 months, due to the mobility restrictions of his new body cast

By: hineswardcriesafterfumbling

hineswardcriesafterfumbling — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:46:59 +0000

@Steeler-lady
That is the reason people don’t like Steelers fans. There is no need to be angry. Harrison hit Brees late and deserved a flag. I don’t think it warrents a fine, but it’s not my call.
The crying about Harrison being held every single play is getting as old as “Ray Lewis is a murderer” jokes. We get it, but I highly doubt that Harrison is the only player in the league that gets held frequently and doesn’t draw the penalty. It probably happens every other play. Get over it.
The “helmet to helmet” hit on Ward was non-existent, which is why there is no outrage.

By: SteelTown-6

SteelTown-6 — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:45:52 +0000

He wasn’t summoned and the meeting wasn’t planned.
He showed up unannounced to remind Goodell face to face, that he can run but he can’t hide.