Haynesworth suspended 5 games

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Titan sits 5 games for head stomp-CBC Sports
Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth was suspended five games Monday for stomping on the head of a helmetless player.

Haynesworth, 25, is eligible to return Nov. 19.
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"There is absolutely no place in the game, or anywhere else, for the inexcusable action that occurred," said NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.

It is the longest suspension for an on-field incident in NFL history, more than double the two-game suspension that Green Bay Packers defensive lineman Charles Martin received for body-slamming Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon to the turf on Nov. 23, 1986.

"What the league has done right now is adequate," Titans head coach Jeff Fisher said. "Five games and five paycheques is substantial.

"This is an unprecedented suspension. But I feel like his actions on the field were also unprecedented."

Haynesworth was penalized and ejected for the infraction, which occurred early in the third quarter of Sunday's 45-14 loss to the Cowboys.

When Dallas scored a touchdown on a five-yard dash by tailback Julius Jones, Haynesworth took his frustrations out on Cowboys centre Andre Gurode by kicking him twice in the head.

Gurode, who was lying prone on the field and had lost his helmet on the play, needed stitches to close gashes on his forehead and left cheek.

"In all my years of football, this has never happened to me," he said. "I've never been kicked in the face like this and I've never seen anybody kick nobody else in the face."

"What I did out there was disgusting," a remorseful Haynesworth told reporters afterward.

"The way I feel right now, you just cannot describe it."

Haynesworth has a history of questionable conduct since being drafted by the Titans, from fighting with two teammates in 2002 to punching offensive lineman Matt Martin and kicking centre Justin Hartwig in the chest in 2003.

He also scuffled with Jacksonville Jaguars safety Deon Grant, a former college teammate, following a 31-28 loss last Nov. 20.

"I'm shocked and appalled for this [Sunday's incident] to take place, regardless whether there have been behavioral issues in the past or not," Fisher said. "To me, there's no place for this type of condition on the field,"

Haynesworth is a five-year pro who has amassed 158 tackles, 8½ sacks and two fumble recoveries in 56 NFL games (42 starts)since being drafted 15th overall by Tennessee in 2002.

The #$%@ black jock sniffers are already minimizing this and saying he hasn't done this stuff before and it is "not the kind of man he is." Even knowing what I know about the media, it still makes me want to hurl!
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serves him right... they should have given him a season suspension at least
 

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After the game, Tennessee cornerback Pacman Jones said that the Titans needed "more thugs." As always in the NFL, the team's plantation boss, Jeff Fisher, explained away what Jones said: "That was out of line, especially considering what happened in the ballgame. I think what Pac was referring to was he wanted more tough guys, not guys that violate the rules or break the rules."


Jones is one of the league's premier idiot thugs himself. I don't think the average NFL fan still realizes the mentality of many of the players who are so highly valued by the league's white coaches and executives, players given endless opportunities and who are coddled time after time, while white players who are just as good and often better are excluded from getting any opportunity at all.
 

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Stomped is not the most accurate description of what Haynesworth did. He raked his cleats over the man's face, with is more deliberate and cold blooded. This psychopath should be done for the season.
 

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Albert Haynesworth apologizes for stomping Cowboys player, saying "I don't play dirty." Has apparently forgotten about that little incident in 2003...Link.

Then, in the last week of the 2003 season, Haynesworth exchanged heated words with backup Titans backup offensive tackle Matt Martin before hitting him in the back of the head.

it seems he never fights fair...
 

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Jimmy Chitwood said:
it seems he never fights fair...

A UT reporter nows says back in college, Haynesworth got mad at an offensive lineman in practice. He left the field, picked up one of those metal rods that players stretch with, and returned to practice to fight. He had to be restrained by several managers and eventually Fulmer. This wasn't reported at the time but apparently has an aversion to a fair fight.

Don Wassall said:
I don't think the average NFL fan still realizes the mentality of many of the players who are so highly valued by the league's white coaches and executives, players given endless opportunities and who are coddled time after time, while white players who are just as good and often better are excluded from getting any opportunity at all.

The average NFL fan listens to these thugs weekly radio shows. They typically have one or two players and an articulate cohost who tries to piece together their fragments into cohesive thoughts. Lots of "you knows" and 'uhs" as the players with single digit Wonderlic scores try to organize their feelings about the game or the season in front of a captivated live radio audience of fans.



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I heard a bit of "Mike & Mike" on ESPN this morning, and "Greenie" was lovingly describing how Hayneworth, while he was "not excusing what he did in the slightest," had handled the aftermath of this incident about as perfectly as anyone could. Co-host Mike Golic quickly agreed with him. Huh? Didn't this savage continue to go nuts after his Don King-like fit of stomping fury was stopped? Didn't he at first claim to have done nothing wrong? These incidents all seem to run together as one; black thug breaks law or commits some violent, inexcusable act, is slapped on the wrist and suffers no real consequences and the white jock-sniffers in the media quickly forgive him as the act is slipped down the Memory Hole. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that it is impossible to get the white "establishment," which in the case of pro sports would be the league hierarchy, coaches and general managers, fans and the journalism community, to adequately punish any black athlete for any crime, no matter what it is. In Don King's America, every black celebrity is completely above the law.
 

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lets see his bitch ass try that on Steve Hutchison or John Tait...I dont think ole' Haynesworth would be breathing right now.
 
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