Note to NFL Bullies: Pick on Someone Your Own Size

By jawarrener  |   Wednesday, October 07, 2009  |  Comments( 0 )

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Has anyone else noticed a disturbing trend this year? I’m starting to notice this trend of big NFL guys picking on little guys. It all began with Tom Cable, this year. Now, none of this is yet proven but someone on the Raiders staff blindsided and punched out Randy Hanson. The poor guy tried to keep it under wraps but when the pain from his shattered jaw was more than a handful of aspirin could quell, he went to the hospital. There was no more hiding it. Someone had broken his jaw. Scattered anonymous reports decried Cable as the assailant and although it has not been equivocally proven, we al know who it was. If it were any other staff member they would have taken the fall by now and this whole mess would be over. It was Cable. This is where I have a problem. Hanson is not a small guy but Cable weighs as much as one of those Serengeti Crocodiles that wait around in shallow streams and eat Wildebeest by the dozens. They get so fat they cannot move over land and have to swim to get anywhere. He must outweigh Hanson by a hundred pounds. Now this was not even a straight-up fight. It wasn’t like Hanson and Cable were mixing it up in one-on-one drills and got chippy. Not at all, what happened was Hanson was arguing with another coach and Cable came up and blindsided him. I don’t know how Hanson could have missed the black-shirted Tsunami hurtling toward him, nor how he could not hear the thunderous footsteps; he was probably arguing pretty hard, and “WHAM!” broken jaw, hospital. What was Cable trying to prove with this gesture? What example was he trying to demonstrate to his players? I guess the frustration of knowing you suck really gets to you after awhile. Just ask Braylon Edwards.

This guy, while out partying, cold cocked a promoter outside of a club he was promoting. A close friend of LeBron James, Edward Givens is a slight man, only about 5’7” and about 130lbs. Is that right? A 6’3” 220lb.man punched out a middle-school kid? What could have possessed him to do this? Did Givens provoke him? I suppose he might have. Was Edwards in the middle of a drunken pity-party when the provocation took place? More than likely. Is Edwards jealous of James’ athletic ability and success? Do you think? Even if this guy Givens heckled Edwards all night, did he deserve to get punched? I thought NFL players were supposed to be role models, that due to their great physical ability, they could rise above petty criticism. Apparently not. At least Edwards is a diva-charlatan and has no real fighting skills. A solid punch from a man almost twice your size that knows how to punch, will land you in the hospital every time, occasionally the graveyard. All I can say is thank God, Edwards (princess-fingers) can’t hit, otherwise this situation would be a whole lot worse for him, his team and for Givens. Walter Payton must be shaking his head right now.
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