I came into the comments to make a similar point: is this really how the State Police should be using their time? I thought they were busy protecting the community, not acting as a courier service for a wealthy professional sports league.

NFL security requested that state police bring the balls to the stadium? And they did? Great use of taxpayer money.

Stories like this are really important for people who wave away concerns about concussions with “they knew what they were getting into when they chose football.” They really, really didn’t. When most of today’s pro players started out in the game, they knew about the possibility of physical damage but the neurological…

Really, as a rule, we should probably assume there’s a substantial amount of corruption in any sport that has (a) lots of money being wagered on it and (b) people aren’t making tons of money playing it.

Butt?

I’ve had a long day. I read your first point as, “when the choreography in ‘Deliverance’ failed to be nominated.”

I just assumed he still had a CompuServe email address.

I hope all these people can learn the following lesson from this: sports franchise owners are not your friends. They are a bunch of fucking snakes who don’t give a shit about you and will fuck you over in a heartbeat if it makes them an extra dollar. They don’t care about your kids or your emotions or your investment…

My wife and I came to the conclusion that as soon as our son can let himself out of the car on his own, he’s old enough to be left alone while running into the store quick.

Team anti-leather sofa, here. For napping at least. It’s either cold or sticky. I prefer to sink into a warm cocoon of blanket and stuffed cushion.

Off topic, but can someone please kill whoever is responsible for the ticking on the GB-WAS broadcast.

And not to mention that if the NFL and NBA want to use college athletics as a minor/developmental league, they should pony up, too.

Right there with you. About ready to step into the shower to attempt to wash the stench of this game off of me, and I don’t think there’s enough steel wool to help with that. That was so damned dirty to watch. When my four year old (!) said “Go Steelers!” this morning, I quickly replied, “Not after last night’s game!”

only jezebel readers would complain about ben roethlisberger being a rapist, you’re right.

Yeah that Space Station is out for blood.

I’m not sure how healthy Ben will be. If he isn’t healthy enough to throw the ball deep with some accuracy, then we lose. Your defense is too good. If Brown can’t play then I don’t know how we are going to get enough yards to score a TD.

Steeler fan here. I literally can not believe what I just witnessed. Totally thought we lost once Cincy scored at the end. Burfict wins the game for them, Hill fumbles, then Burfict and Jones hand the Steelers an easy field goal by committing dumb ass penalties. I guess they really wanted to keep that curse going.

Don’t know how to take this game. It had the great notes of a classic old-school football game: tough defense, terrible weather, heated rivalry, crazy ending, etc.

Reminder: A hit like this isn’t necessarily the cause of CTE, as nasty as it is. The repeated blows to the heads that many players, in particular linemen, suffer is what causes CTE. Football damages athletes’ brains, if you watch the NFL, you’re watching people damage their brains and having their brains damaged.