Odell Beckham suspended

[HappyOnions]

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000606634/article/odell-beckham-suspended-one-game

 

[erod]

Should be more, but it's a Sunday night game, so it'll get plenty of replay and talk on the only game on TV.

Deserved.

 

[yesfan]

Teamates must love that. Tough road game in Minnesota and their star receiver out for stupidity.

 

[Don Corleone]

And the appeal is probably already turned in.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

That's it?

 

[Arkyvarminter]

ODB is nothing but a talented punk....

 

[JohnsKey19]

And the appeal is probably already turned in.

What are they going to do? Suspend him for a half? Denied. The Ballerina just cost his team the chance to compete for the division.

 

[JoeBoBBY]

I dunno, ODB deserved it for sure. But I was beating up on Dez when he got into with Norman. But after ODB, I am thinking Norman starts all this up......he might think its part of the mind game, or he might just be................a punk.

 

[rynochop]

When does the appeal get ruled on? I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow gets upheld until it's a meaningless game

 

[Don Corleone]

I dunno, ODB deserved it for sure. But I was beating up on Dez when he got into with Norman. But after ODB, I am thinking Norman starts all this up......he might think its part of the mind game, or he might just be................a punk.

It is a contract year for Norman. He will inflate his name until he gets a paycheck and disappears in the black hole of Oakland just like Larry Brown did.

 

[Nightman]

A lot of pissed off Fantasy Football teams in the Finals. Well deserved though. He should've been ejected.

 

[Don Corleone]

When does the appeal get ruled on? I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow gets upheld until it's a meaningless game

He won't serve the suspension this year. Especially when repeat offenders like Suh were allowed to keep playing. How quickly people forget the appeals process.

 

[StarBoyz83]

Good. Well deserved for the softie.

 

[CowboysFanSince88]

When does the appeal get ruled on? I wouldn't be surprised if it somehow gets upheld until it's a meaningless game

It won't be meaningless now because the game has already been flexed

 

[knightrider94]

He won't serve the suspension this year. Especially when repeat offenders like Suh were allowed to keep playing. How quickly people forget the appeals process.

With all of the focus on "Concussion" and head injuries right now, I think he will have to serve it.

 

[JohnsKey19]

The appeal will be heard and ruled on this week. Schefter...

 

[DOUBLE WING]

RIP to my two fantasy teams that are in the championship next week and have Beckham. My only glimmer of hope in this crappy football season.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

This keeps getting weirder and weirder.......
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-s...randished-baseball-bats-at-obj-200020413.html

According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, via Facebook, there was a little pregame saber rattling that led to the two players getting into it on multiple occasions Sunday — and they were not the only two involved:

In pregame warmups, at least one Panthers official, and possibly more, carried black baseball bats on to the field and were motioning with them towards Odell Beckham Jr. while making comments to him, per a league source. Norman later grabbed the black bat and was swinging it in pregame warmups – which, by the way, an NFL Films camera captured. Beckham, according to another source, felt threatened and it helped put him in a certain frame of mind. It does not excuse what he did during the course of the game, but it does explain what led up to the battle that still is the talk of the league today.

So there you have it?

Beckham, one of the league's most visible stars, was suspended a game for his helmet-to-helmet hit on Norman in the third quarter. He'll miss Sunday night's game against the Minnesota Vikings — a prime-time contest in fantasy football championship week.

Should Beckham have felt threatened? Oh, goodness, no. Did he think Norman or this unnamed Panthers official was going to take a cut at him before, during or after the game? That's ludicrous. But is it also tasteless and incendiary? For sure. Should the Panthers get fined for this? Likely — especially with video likely to show how much malicious intent there might have been.

Of course, injured Panthers cornerback Bené Benwikere says there's a reasonable explanation for all this.

Ah?

On a related note, I wish someone would say that my presence is defined by a baseball bat, but that's besides the bigger point. Which is that swinging a bat on the field pregame could be construed as a threatening act, not too different — if you're en extremist — than, say, the New Orleans Saints' bounty scandal deal. Or, if you buy what Benwikere is saying, or if the video proves harmless or the Panthers offer up a logical excuse, a harmless event that in no way excuses what Beckham did out there, which was seek out Norman and try to injure him.

The guess is that this story was leaked to Schefter either from Beckham's camp or from the Giants, who — at least judging from the words of support from Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning on Monday — seem to be firmly in Beckham's corner on this deal.

So there you have it. Another strange development in a bizarre story

 

[Direwolf63]

My guess is that the Giants will appeal and that the suspension will be replaced with a large fine. John Mara has a lot of pull with Goodell.

Another thing: before the game during warm-ups, a guy from the Panthers practice squad brought out a bat and apparantly threatened OBJ with it. There are several pictures on twitter with Norman and others with the bat. Not cool. The Panthers should be fined for that too.

 

[CowboysFanSince88]

Beckham is mentally disturbed