Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Perfectly Understandable

Patriots quarterback Tom Brady was fined $10,000 for kicking Baltimore defenseman Ed Reed at the end of a play in last Sunday's AFC Championship game.

I appreciate the fact that the NFL must be seen to apply the same rules to its greatest stars as well as its everyday players, but there's not a man alive who wouldn't raise his leg in self defense if a hard-hitting free safety who was previously suspended for dirty play was about to crash in the family jewels. Sure, Ed Reed is supposed to pull up when the quarterback slides, but would you be 100% confident, with only a split second to decide?

No one's crying for Tom Brady:
For a guy who's scheduled to make about $14 million next season, $10,000 is virtually nothing (it'd be like having to pay a fine of about $36 for a guy who makes $50,000 a year). But hey, Brady did something the league has deemed illegal, and he'll have to pay for it.
Nevertheless, what he did was perfectly understandable.  © 2013 Stephen Yuen

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