What happened to Sportsmanship?

[panther1012]

I was taught as a young boy to play hard, respect the game and your opponents. Most everyone else must have been taught the same thing because that's how everyone acted. Never in my life have i witnessed a more dispicable act of classless sportmanship than watching Albert Haynesworth "stomp" on a fellow ball players head. It was not only non- accidental, but it was done with malace and hate in his heart. What does it say about a young man and how he was brought up to deliberatly try to cut or gore a man lying on his back defenseless?

Fisher should cut him from the team or suspend him for the remainder of the year. Goodness gracious, he almost took the guy's eye out!! Haynesworth is a sick man who needs help and now would be a good time to show him some "tough love" by forcing him to get some.

Honestly, the athletes have gotten faster, stonger and dumber. They have also turned into selfish, classless greedy adult children. This was and is another low in the sport. Gentleman, sportmanship is dying a death of a thousand cuts. The holder of the knive is called "money"

 

[SupermanXx]

good post

 

[Cbz40]

I'm w/you Sir. Excellent post.

 

[theogt]

I don't think much has changed. There used to be some nasty players. Human nature is human nature. Some people are just scumbags.

 

[Payton34Smith22]

AMEN! Great post!

 

[MapleLeaf]

...my son's peewee football game. Would someone be so kind as to give me the "Dummies" version of what happened. What QTR? What play/down, etc? Thanks in advance.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

Just let me say that Haynesworth has more problems than that. He has been arrested here in Nashville several times. Most recently in Smith County for drunk driving and running from a cop. They guy is messed up and needs to be suspended so he can concentrate on getting some help or he is going to remain a classless individual.

 

[Spontae]

Worst of all, imho, is his arguing with the referee afterward, as if his actions were somehow justified!

Psychopathic/sociopathic. Anti-social. Denial. Narcissistic. He has severe issues.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

...my son's peewee football game. Would someone be so kind as to give me the "Dummies" version of what happened. What QTR? What play/down, etc? Thanks in advance.

3rd Qtr, Barber's TD Haynesworth stripps off Gurodes helmet and kicks him in the head and then stomps on his head with his cleats. Gurode gets 30 stitches and is lost for the game.

Oh yeah, Haynesworth starts yelling at the ref like he did nothing wrong, throws his own helmet and the Cowboys kick off from the Titans 40 yard line.

 

[Cbz40]

Worst of all, imho, is his arguing with the referee afterward, as if his actions were somehow justified!

Psychopathic/sociopathic. Anti-social. Denial. Narcissistic. He has severe issues.

Would you say padded cell issues....

Good to see you Spontae.

 

[MapleLeaf]

3rd Qtr, Barber's TD Haynesworth stripps off Gurodes helmet and kicks him in the head and then stomps on his head with his cleats. Gurode gets 30 stitches and is lost for the game.

Oh yeah, Haynesworth starts yelling at the ref like he did nothing wrong, throws his own helmet and the Cowboys kick off from the Titans 40 yard line.

...I just saw some images of the incident in another post on the forum. Was it as bad as the still photos show it to be?

It looks like he intentinally stomped on his head from the photo. Also, there is another picture of him yelling at Fisher, his head coach, wiht a ref intervening in between them?

How bad was the whooping Dallas was giving at the time?

I hope I can get a torrent of the game it seems to have alot of interest now.

 

[Spontae]

Would you say padded cell issues....

Good to see you Spontae.

I concur, and its good to be back and seeing you too, Grand Poobah.

 

[SupermanXx]

link to pics?

 

[MapleLeaf]

link to pics?

It should be on the front page.

 

[SupermanXx]

that thread doesn't have the pics of the incident though

I mean I saw the game obviously, just wanted to see those pics too

 

[Cajuncowboy]

...I just saw some images of the incident in another post on the forum. Was it as bad as the still photos show it to be?

It looks like he intentinally stomped on his head from the photo. Also, there is another picture of him yelling at Fisher, his head coach, wiht a ref intervening in between them?

How bad was the whooping Dallas was giving at the time?

I hope I can get a torrent of the game it seems to have alot of interest now.

It was worse than the photos show because you actually see him intentially kicking him and then stomping on him. It was sickening to watch.

 

[MapleLeaf]

that thread doesn't have the pics of the incident though

I mean I saw the game obviously, just wanted to see those pics too

...ninth and eleventh pictures in Woody's Girl's thread called "Game Photos".

 

[big dog cowboy]

It looks like he intentinally stomped on his head from the photo.

That is because he did.

 

[Boy's fan in Giant land]

Couldn't agree with you more. I've been watching football for pretty close to four decades now and I have never seen such a despicable act.

I could really care less about his multitude of problems. There can be no excuses made that will in any way mitigate his behavior this afternoon.
I agree with the game commentators 100% in that the league must hand down their most severe condemnation. At the very least, he should be suspended for the season & forced to participate in some type of program that will get him some relief from his inner demons.