the biggest of which is that the report says he wasn’t impaired, so thats a little comforting (as far as suspension goes). Also, it appears that it wasn’t even his vehicle.

THIS SUCKS

Great thing to see first thing in the morning. What happened to cops just taking your stash and smoking it themselves? Nice how he wasn’t even doing anything wrong to get pulled over.

Ah well, moral implications aside, at least my avatar is even cooler now.

Damn it it’s gonna suck when ‘Tone gets suspended later in the season. Hopefully it’ll be against browns or ravens when we already have the Division wrapped up.

Maybe ’Tone can convince Big Ben to stop funding drug dogs in every city they play in. Maybe change it to something useful like donating to the police benevolence association or buying them some kevlar or something useful instead.

Smoke at home you idiot!

Shame to see this one, but seriously what is with the players from Ohio State U – Buckeyes, they seem to always wind up in the NFL and with problems..

At least is was only POT, and he stopped beating his women… He should get a community service award for his respect to the police and authorities,, usually they flee and crash into someone..

GO STEELERS!! 420 at Hienz Fields (guess the buckeye is really a pot tree, just check out the leaves)

Over on PGH it is reported that Kevin Faulk pleaded guilty to the same exact charge and got a 1 game suspension. So all things being equal that is what it should pan out long dong silver.

Thankfully the league is a little slow on these matters. Its unlikely that the Rog can get a suspension in for this week.

The Rooneys, and Coach Sunglasses, on the other hand, may take it into their own hands, and they can act as quickly as they want. I see Santonio as a pretty important weapon this week, but I don’t think that even plays into the discussion in the front office. Moral stands > winning, I think.

This is very disturbing to me. I’m not naive enough to think the Steelers draft or sign choirboys, but one would have thought they’d learned their lesson after drafting Plaxico Burress. I know, Santonio hasn’t displayed so far the warning signs we saw with Plax, but to me, to risk the potential distraction on your team as it’s about to start such an important stretch run against a murderer’s row of opponents, smacks of the same kind of egotistical conduct. Bottom line: we thought Limas Sweed was kind of a luxury pick for when (gasp!) Hines retires or moves on; it may turn out we need him sooner than later.

assuming holmes is suspended for a game or two – does anyone think sweed can step in and make a couple big plays? Very disappointed in his efforts thus far, but maybe he’s not a practice player, and given the opportunity in the big time he will respond. Dont get me wrong, I like Nate he’s been solid this year. But I would like to see Sweed step up in holmes absence.

Is it just me or could this be part of Limas’ plan to get more PT? He keeps teasing Santonio by hanging his jersey in the locker next to Holmes….

(the world may never know)

sorry for the caps…

Declared inactive. Morality police +1, competitive team -1.

linky

someone inform Santonio he is in the NFL, not the f*cking NBA! Unacceptable behavior! Dumbass. Just another example of how many athletes are pretty much idiots when it boils down to it. For the hundreds of thousands of dollars a four game suspension could cost him, why not save the chronic for the off-season? He could have used the money for a sabbatical to the Amsterdam and get legally lobotomized by some killer black hash!

According to the AP, police found “marijuana filled cigars in his car…” Back in my youth I remember kids rolling up mini cigarettes and getting a great deal of mileage out of one of them, even passing them around so that several could partake from that one joint. The thought of a marijuana cigar astounds me. I guess when you are the home run threat on a team you go big-time. This is very depressing.

I’m surprised Ricky Williams was only mentioned once here.

I guess I’ll try to be cautiously optimistic. Not a lot of people expected Mewelde Moore to have a solid game against Jacksonville and he did. Hopefully Washington, Sweed, Baker and even Miller (if he’s not required to be in the backfield helping to block Justin Tuck the entire game) can give Ben adequate guys to throw to against a pretty average New York secondary.

But in a poor attempt to look on the bright side, at least we get to see how Baker plays in a regular season game (he looked good in preseason). Plus, maybe Sweed will get a few more chances to show us what he can do.
Another thing to keep in mind, Ben’s 3 and 4 Wideouts are considered tall, combine that with Miller and Spaeth, and Ben might be able to just launch the ball straight up in the air and let his receivers out jump the opposition.

still, I don’t like to see our players miss any games. If Goodell suspends him on top of what Tomlin has decided than that is two games gone, thats two too many for my taste. I hate it enough that he is missing the Giants game as is, we need all our players for this one.

All that being said though…..I don’t smoke but for crying out loud legalize it. Steelers’ playing time is in jeopardy. That cop needed to get his priorities in order…..Steelers THEN upholding the law…..

Football is a team sport and Santonio knows the rules. He let his team down and I am really disappointed in him. Several prognisticators, including myself predicted a huge season for him. As it stands, Hines Ward is continues to be the best receiver on the team and Santonio can only aspire to his level. He also might want to take a page out of Hines’ book on personal conduct. Greatness is earned, not handed out. It might be time for a little self reflection.

Santonio’s stoner move (plates, license, smoke) is now a distraction to the team.

So far this season Tomlin has managed to keep the club together and focused on game day. Now the team is facing numerous distractions this week from Santonio to Hines’ issues with the league to mounting injuries.

Do the Steelers come together and rise to the challenge tomorrow against the Giants, at home on almost nationwide TV, or lay an egg?

So just had to weigh in on this one. Agree with the suspension. Given the rules its the way to go, but when the hell can we grow up as a country about drugs?!? And when the hell will police stop harassing motorists who are not impaired?

I thought I would share a song by my favorite songwriter on the matter. Change the lyric to “How I came to be suspended on the day of the game” and you’ve got the ballad of Santonio Holmes.

Dan Bern – Jail

Song Lyrics
I wish you well on your travels
My friends I wish you well along the way
This is the story of how I came to be
In jail for a night and a day

Well I’m driving my ‘88 Olds Cutlass
It’s raining and it’s dark
My wipers are beating slow and steady
Like the thump, thump, thumping of my heart
I’m rolling down from up in Colorado
Some little town in Texas tonight
When my rear view flashes blue, blue, blue
It’s a cop; my license plate’s missing a light
He smells sweet green Colorado
Hidden in the lining ‘bove my head
Next thing I know there’s four cop cars flashing
And around my wrists are bracelets of lead
Well, take my license, take my fingerprints
Take my wallet that I’ll no longer need
Take my belt in case I want to hang myself
For a nickel bag of weed
Then put me in a cell on an old mattress pad
To measure out in minutes this night
One cup of water in styrofoam
Four walls and one fluorescent light
And this is my one phone call
And baby I’m calling you
You tell me, “stay strong boy”
I say “well, I’ll do the best I do”

And I wish you well on your travels
My friends I wish you well along the way
This is the story of how I came to be
In jail for a night and a day

Now at first I’m thinking, man, I’m such a fuck-up
My head is lonesome and bowed
Figure I’ll join some program, get religious
My abstinence will make my mother proud
And I stare at the stone cold floor
I guess that’s what you do in the pen
Then I get to thinking what I’d really like to do
Is to come back here and fight this to the end

Your honor, think of Johnny Cash
And Elvis and Hank Williams too
Whatever it took to go get those songs
Those good old boys would do
If it’s illegal, then throw out Blonde on Blonde
And every Beatles song since Hard Day’s Night
Go ahead and burn Walt Whitman
Unpaint Starry Night
Coltrane, Louis Armstrong, let ‘em burn
Kerouac, Thelonious Monk
Alice in Wonderland, Picasso
Burroughs, Blake, Ginsberg, throw it out, it’s junk
Then throw out all your favorite records
Throw your books of poetry away
Close the museums, burn the paintings
Restore us to Galileo’s Day
Then to the drug store we will go
For Vicodin and Chloraseptic spray
Scarf a couple Darvocets and Xanax
And then we’ll go floating away
Dear Governor, dear Governor, dear Governor
The ultimate enforcer of my fate
Did I interrupt your three-martini lunch?
Are you off on your cigarette break?

Well, I wish you well on your travels
My friends I wish you well along the way
This is the story of how I came to be
In jail for a night and a day

Next day, my buddies bail me out
Toward late afternoon
And the grass, it never smelled greener
Sun drips honey like from a golden spoon
I jump in the car and drive on out of there
Soon I’m miles away
And I get to thinking what awaits me
When I come back some not-so-distant day
Will I stand before the judge
And say, “Your Honor, this law, it is wrong”
Or do I just do the time and pay my fine
Shake this town from my boots and be gone

I wish you well on your travels
My friends I wish you well along the way
This is the story of how I came to be
In jail for a night and a day