This issue is bigger than the Ravens’ rivalry with the Steelers. Ray Lewis and the other Ravens knew that when they vocally backed Harrison last season. But you only have to read some of the comments on these boards to know guys like Ray have a heckuva lot more character than some of their fans. If you knew diddley about the game, you’d know how ridiculous your post sounds. Save it for the post-game trash talk. These are serious matters.

This is a good rule. Teams like the Pittburg Steelers that support dirty play and basically teach players to play the way Harrrison does will have to start to come out of pocket.

Makes sense. Because when you listen to press conferences by coaches like Tomlin, its clear they support the dirty hits and might even be reimbursing certain fines under the table.

And yeah, some refs are throwing bad flags. But they don’t always create fines, and the league has shown it has good judgement with regards to this.

The issue is guys like harrison who continue to use their helmet as a weapon and go for the Goldberg Spear rather than actually wrap someone up and tackle.

Haha sorry, I just read this….if this guy had his way Goodell would make up weapons of mass destruction within the league and invade.

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More likely he would have Jacksonville and Buffalo pay a portion of the Cowboys, Giants, and Jets salaries.

All money collected in fines goes to charity not the retired players

Haha sorry, I just read this….if this guy had his way Goodell would make up weapons of mass destruction within the league and invade.

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Yea right… Mike Brown… Is freaking out about this…

I can’t write more, as I just had to give Deb a thumbs up for one of the first times ever, so now I have to go lie down!

The problem is, these calls are rarely obvious. And it also seems that a certain star level for a player will generate a flag on clean hits and therefore could generate fines as well (a la Jackson’s perfectly legal hit on Vick). Look at some of Harrison’s fines. The guy gets a certain reputation, warranted or otherwise, and then delivers a clean, hard hit on a QB and gets a flag and fined. So the deck will already be stacked against him when it comes to calls.

Then you add into the fact that even fines are not standardized but a case-by-case basis, making it a rather unfair system. It isn’t like in basketball where you get “x” amount of technicals and then tossed for a game. Rodger Goodell can randomly drop a fine amount on a player that will rapidly accrue and then hit the teams.

So all-in-all, in the absence of a fair, non-subjective system, this policy doesn’t make much sense.

a team is gonna give a crap about paying out 50k in fines in exchange for having much nastier team play? its basically a parking ticket to them.

I bet about 32 teams will happily pay that every season in exchange for letting out the dogs….

stupid

(there’s your Tebow content for this article- PFT is slacking)