The Spitting Ejection

i love sean taylor but come on guys,the ref was standing right there and i guarantee he saw it,why else would he call a penalty?guys are complaining about non calls all game long.if he didnt see it,he should be done refereeing playoff football.i thought the crew as a whole did a good job and let them play,for the most part

how many bad calls result from refs thinking they saw something that didn't happen or misconstrued(sp?) what really happened? I know I have an inherent distrust of the officials and what I've seen from the multitude of replays of the situation doesn't match what the ref supposedly saw so I have some doubts and will not throw Taylor under the proverbial bus especially when the people whose trust in this matter counts, his teammates and coaches, r taking him for his word. for once I'll give the guy the benefit of the doubt. Plus it's all in the past now and what matters is what he does this week and with his level of play the last 2 weeks, I think we could be in for a show this weekend. GO SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :point: :httr: :towel: :httr:

Why do people insist on confusing the real world with the football field? NFL players are not held responsible for playing by the rules the rest of us are. Deal with it.

I think it's disrespectful to call someone else's wife a whore, but I have no doubt that kind of stuff gets said across the line of scrimmage all day long.

Spitting is no different than any other insult, and I dont think it means anything in the game of football.

On the street is a totally different thing and what doesn't fly for you and me is completely irrelevant to the NFL.

Again I am amazed that you think spitting in someones face is the same as calling them or their wife a name. They are completely different.

You are correct about the NFL not being the real world and things that get passed off as being aggressive on the field would be criminal acts on the street which is why we like sports.

Football players spitting is apparently a global (http://dwb.newsobserver.com/24hour/weird/story/3058484p-11754868c.html) issue

Football players spitting is apparently a global (http://dwb.newsobserver.com/24hour/weird/story/3058484p-11754868c.html) issue

"Football has done much to bring people together and combat problems such as racism," Woods added. "Now it's time to tackle spitting."


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Again I am amazed that you think spitting in someones face is the same as calling them or their wife a name. They are completely different.

They might differ in magnitude but they do not differ in intent, unless your argument is about the sanitary issues relating to saliva.

If you're arguing spit is dirty, we can have a whole different argument about how sanitary it is to play in the NFL.

Otherwise, what we're talking about here is disrespecting someone. And someone saying they boned your slut-whore of a wife doggy style (and she liked it) is pretty disrespectful, wouldn't you say?

That would make me pretty hot under the collar. Much as someone spitting at me would.

Like I said previously it isn't even about football. Its about a classless act from a Redskin. Do you think Joe was happy about it. NO. I guess if Joe came out and went off about it and said how wrong and ignorant it was, then you all would fall in line.

You're delusional.

Have you ever read any of the crap that Riggins got away with back in the "Golden Age" of Skins football? He used to get drunk in the clubhouse after practice and they'd find him passed out drunk in the locker room, pissing all over himself. You think an NFL head coach who's been around as long as Joe hasn't seen a LOT WORSE than this? :frusty:

Joe Gibbs is a great, kind, inspiring person, and he doesn't care for vulgarity and that sort of thing. But he's also a good judge of character and he hates to lose. Do you think he'd come out and say all the POSITIVE things he said about Sean Taylor after the game if he believed Taylor was as bunch of a piece of crap as YOU seem to think he is? Maybe Taylor told him what Pittman had said to him which made him spit. Maybe he told Gibbs he didn't spit at all.

So given that Gibbs defended Taylor's behavior this year as a good kid and didn't disparage him, maybe YOU should be the one falling in line instead of looking to crucify one of the best players on the team you claim to love.

i love sean taylor but come on guys,the ref was standing right there and i guarantee he saw it,why else would he call a penalty?guys are complaining about non calls all game long.if he didnt see it,he should be done refereeing playoff football.i thought the crew as a whole did a good job and let them play,for the most part


How many times have you watched a basketball game and a guy takes a swing at another player, the other guy takes offense and swings back. The ref sees only the second guy swing, and ejects him?

Happens all the time. As others have said, I think the 17k fine, plus the lack of a fire and brimstone press release tells me they really didn't see anything blatant other than Pittman taking a swing.

Did anyone just see Sounds of the Game on NFL Network??

They showed a great angle of the incident and it's pretty clear, you can see spit coming from Taylor and in fact it almost hit the ref. Case closed.

Did anyone just see Sounds of the Game on NFL Network??

They showed a great angle of the incident and it's pretty clear, you can see spit coming from Taylor and in fact it almost hit the ref. Case closed.

Was it talking spit? Like "say it don't spray it". Can we start calling him Sylvester the Cat? Or did he actually lunge forward and spit? I'd love to see a clip of that

Did anyone just see Sounds of the Game on NFL Network??

They showed a great angle of the incident and it's pretty clear, you can see spit coming from Taylor and in fact it almost hit the ref. Case closed.

lol
Seems ya got a woody over that fact.


hahaha

I don't give a spit about saliva. Salivaia yes! Saliva no

lol