Yes folks, that’s right. I’m back after a brief little hiatus, and I’ve got a bone to pick with this little thing called Football, and the incredibly stupid nonsense it’s brought up in the past week. Yes, I know…I know that Big Ben is back. I know that the Cowboys aren’t “up to par”. I know that the Browns are exhibiting the same old, same old. And finally, yes I know that everyone’s bragging about the Jets..And it’s becoming ANNNOYING. And if the Jets make it to the big ‘ol SB, you can bet dollars to Rex Ryan’s large case of donuts that he won’t shut his mouth for a long…LONG time.
But I’m not writing this column for the sake of discussing Rex Ryan’s donuts. I’ve decided to throw out there a major issue that’s popped up this week (And one of the individuals who we’ll talk about has been involved in this scuffle many, many times. Helmet-to-helmet contact. You remember when you were younger…annnnd you remember your parents telling you to “use your right head” and not the other one? We’ll this is sort of the same discussion/and topic, but we’re talking about NOT using that head, and still using it wisely when not playing the rock’ em, sock’ em game of Football.
So who are the three lucky contestants who were fined for “using their head” this weekend?
Brandon Meriweather (Patriots) Dunta Robinson (Falcons) and James Harrison (Steelers)
Uh wait a second…is that James Harrison I see? Oh boy. Now Robinson and Meriweather I haven’t seen on this list of individuals who have done this. But Harrison? This surely isn’t his first. Earlier today, what did James Harrison have to say about the fine? Stay out of his way. “I don’t want to injure anybody. There's a big difference between being hurt and being injured. You get hurt, you shake it off and come back the next series or the next game. I try to hurt people." So let me get this right, James..Getting hurt and injured are two completely different things? HAHAHAHAHA. I can’t believe I’m about to do this, but for anyone reading this article who wants to DEFEND Harrison, we’ll showcase the meaning of “hurt” and “injured” and then we’ll see if your elementary teacher did just the cracker-jack job of teaching you your ABC’s and 123’s.
Just having to look up the definition of both words leaves me with a lower IQ than I can even think of right now.
Hurt(noun): injury, hurt, harm, trauma
any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
Injured (adj) injured
harmed
Um. Do you see the other words that are used to describe “hurt”? INJURY?!?!?! Oh no! That cannot be! James Harrison says Injury and hurt are TWO COMPLETE DIFFERENT THINGS.
WRONG! I just felt my IQ drop just a little lower. But that’s ok, I’m already to the stage to where I need diapers and someone to read to me so I can drool in a cup. Hurt means “any physical damage caused to the body by violence or accident or fracture, etc”. So what does Injured mean? Harmed. Harrison says (And this is actually stuff that is QUOTED) he doesn’t want to injure anyone…BUT there is a BIG DIFFERENCE..a BIG difference. To him being injured is different from hurt. Um…doesn’t being hurt sometimes count as injured? There’s being hurt because someone stepped on your toe…and then there’s your neck hurting because someone ran at you, full force, with the intention of TRYING TO HURT YOU. Does anyone see anything wrong with this logic? For those who go “It’s Football!” Ok that’s right. Football is the sport to play to where you can go “You know what, I don’t like the opposing team. If I see someone I don’t like, I’m hurting them” Um no. Hard, legal hits are ok. Hell that’s what football is about. However, it’s NOT about going onto the field with the intent to cause bodily harm and injury…and to James Harrison, DO NOT say that hurting is different from injury because ITS NOT! If you hit someone, annnd you break their neck because YOU think that it’s ok to have the intent to hurt someone, then maybe you need a lesson in elementary school lessons, because as far as I can see, your teacher didn’t do enough to educate you enough to use common sense.
Football is meant to be rough and tough. It’s a contact sport. But when you go out onto the field saying “I try to hurt people” that’s just dumb. And I’d like to know how a Quarterback can be accused of rape…not even proven (this is another story that irritates me because Ben is a pinhead) be suspended for 6 games, yet a player can say “I try to hurt people” only get fined several thousand dollars? The logic isn’t there. And it’s just another confusing aspect of Football and how people like Harrison get away with their beliefs. When someone hits Harrison with helmet-to-helmet contact, and should he be injured severely, I wonder if his opinion would be different?
Oh how one can hope that stupidity doesn’t occur in everyone
You can view the ESPN link with Harrisons claims, below.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5699976
And of course the dictionary meanings courtesy of www.definitions.net
Questions/Comments/Concerns/Mad readers? Contact me at justindombrowski@yahoo.com
By Justin Dombrowski, Contributing Writer
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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