"I was glad we broke his nose"

He would throw the ball with his teeth, if he had to!

haha!

This is what is sounds like when tigers cry.

We have some mean football players. And it has helped us do rather well in the NFL. You guys have your fair share of “thugs” as well. Harrison in the last Superbowl punching and throwing a guy to the ground far away from the play. Then him saying he is going our there to hurt people. Ward intentionally leading with his helmet to block Ed Reed then jumping up and down like a school girl with joy for doing what he did while the play was still going on when he could have blocked someone else to extend the play.

This is football. These are huge men with short tempers. You want to hit people hard and you want to let them know what’s up. If you don’t like what Ngata did, then tell your O-Line to man up and not let him destroy them like he has been all season.

First of all, it was quite clear that Ngata didn’t intentionally break Ben’s nose and he explained, on the record, that it came after a swim move to shed a blocker. I frankly don’t think Ngata shouldn’t have been fined. It wasn’t malicious. He wasn’t even flagged. Accidents like this happen when a 350 lb man is trying to take down a 240 lb one.

Suspend Harbaugh? Jesus. I won’t waste my time responding with an original thought so you get a cliche: this is a man’s game. People get hurt and in fact try to hurt others within the confines of the rules. The comment was a bit ill-advised, but there’s no need to soil your Depends over it. Harbaugh made his comments in the context of praising Ben’s play.

Also. This quote from the article above is ludicrous: “I’ve always felt like the Steelers were a team that were tough without having to be dirty.” Considering that Wines Hard is on your team, this is easily the most naive thing I’ve read all day. Harrison certainly doesn’t deserve the fines he’s gotten this year but that fella’s no saint either.

Sheesh. I would have expected those comments to get Steelers fans fired up, not inspire an innernet whine festival.

go there with the nose statement and when he was asked to clarify what he said by the Pitt media he totally backtracked and got short I think…he knows he’s roasted….and yea I guess now we can bash Flacco’s face to see how he “plays through it”…and why not since it’s only a 15K fine.

doesn’t mean he has to like the guy. I would think that the fact that he’s never beaten Ben in his entire career as a head coach might lead him to have a bit of a resentment.

It’s a loaded statement this year. With all the talk about player safety and the fines people are judging it within that context. Same as Harisson’s ‘I try to hurt people’ line more often than not it will get interpreted the wrong way.

That’s because all you do is whine about Steelers fans behavior.

and I don’t think we are either. You know, I just think it’s good bulletin board material, and also demonstrative of why our franchise has the tradition it has, and Baltimore doesn’t. We’ve been very fortunate to have coaches that are smart enough not to say these kind of things.

Also I hadn’t really had much to think of Harbaugh before this year, either positive or negative. But after his ‘tsk, tsking’ of the Steelers on that Sunday night game interview, his subsequent foot in mouth comments that pissed off his own fans after they lost this game, and now this — I have to say I’d be glad if we broke his nose.

heh heh.

We injure people and then say we are happy we did it? No, not really.

That would be sweet to see…Joe running for his life…hoping like all hell to see that come Sat…since I live in Balto I’ve offered to go to city hall after the game and take down those stupid purple lights they have hanging everywhere down there!

Harbaugh was asked about the comment and said in effect "C’mon, guys, I was kidding, I was laughing when I said it."

I don’t buy that for a minute. What else would he be able to say? “Yeah, I meant it?”

This is what he said. He never said C’Mon.

Go back and listen to it, you’ll see it was in humor. It was in response to a humorous question and I was laughing. It was tongue in cheek, it was fun. I took the opportunity to praise him for how tough he is. I go back a long way with him. I’ve known him since he was a sophomore in college. I have tremendous respect for him. He knows we try to be physical, Pittsburgh plays physical and that’s the way we want to play. But it was tongue in cheek.

See that’s the part that makes me mad. That yinz enjoyed it so much.

bulletin board material is anything that will get the players AND the fans ready to rumble. And personally I don’t want to have a laugh with the ugly flying rats. save the peace-making for after the game.

If you hear the guy talk, you could tell if one person tried to fight him he wouldn’t look so super unless he used his tazer.

I’ve always been a believer in the “it’s much more important to walk the walk than it is to talk the talk” theory. I’m excitedly awaiting this game as it could be the the premier game played this whole season: When it’s all on the line; I don’t have a doubt that both teams are going to not only bring their A game, but bring it in spades!

Side note: I hugged a Ravens fan yesterday. That’s right..hugged a Ravens fan. I felt a little dirty afterward, but it was for a good cause. (her dog was injured (he’s ok now) and she was quite anxious prior to the surgery) How do I know she was a Ravens fan? Her Ratbird hoodie stood opposite my fabulous, new Steelers shirt. We bantered a bit and agreed that this will be a game the football-lovin’ world will not only appreciate, but try to emulate.

Are we ready for some serious, playoff football?!!!