BraveHeartFan;3178568 said:
I haven't been more angry about any missed called all year than that one last night. That was a clear as day illegal hit to the head and should have been flagged.
I know that the Skin player who did it had better at the very least be fined for that hit.
I was absolutely livid when Fletcher hit Crayton in that manner. Fletcher was coming full bore and forearmed a defenseless Crayton to the lower side of his head and upper side of the neck region. On the NBC replay it clearly bent his neck with Crayton thankfully going with the blow.
This truly outraged me because the Fletcher hit went beyond even spearing or hitting a guy helmet to helmet. Fletcher unleashed on Crayton as if he were a human numchuck.
I am not trying to exaggerate this vicious hit but Crayton could have been severely injured with a severe broken neck resulting in paralysis and death. Crayton did lumber over to the sidelines and looked out of it almost like being moderately concussed.
I was shocked Crayton was back in the game and I bet that helps Fletcher in the matter. If the refs would not have missed this very harmful action of Fletcher I bet he would have been ejected from the game. The announcers were sort of downplaying the foul as well probably because they were talking so glowingly of Fletcher prior to the incident.
I know we have to put this in the context of professional football but to me Fletcher either intended on doing Crayton serious harm or was extremely reckless in his action. If Crayton would have been carted off and his football career terminated, with the rest of his life being spent in a wheelchair wouldn't Fletcher be banned, even face criminal charges?
I know this sounds a little radical but then I remember some reports of Haynesworth facing the possibility of criminal charges when he willfully stepped on Gurode's face and head a few years back.
It almost seems that in football you can operate in the gray area of perpetration of no great harm than no significant fault no matter what your intent. Out in the real world you go out of your way to severely hurt someone you spend a decade in the slammer.
It's disturbingly akin to some nut taking a shot at you and if he misses, oh well no harm no foul.
