Romo beats the cr@p out of a teammate...

[TargetPractice6]

Originally posted by Bee
Fine...let's string him up by the testicles in Time Square and everyone can take a swing at him with a very large club.

Sounds fun!

[TroyF]

Originally posted by Bee
Fine...let's string him up by the testicles in Time Square and everyone can take a swing at him with a very large club.

My guess is he'd like that.

I can't believe I wasted so many words on this scumbag. The quicker he gets out of the league, the better.

TroyF

[Bee]

Originally posted by TroyF
My guess is he'd like that.

I can't believe I wasted so many words on this scumbag. The quicker he gets out of the league, the better.

TroyF

Well, it's good to know you're not prejudging him or anything.

[dawgfan]

Is it prejudging when you have years of evidence handy to support the claim he's an ass?

[Bee]

Originally posted by dawgfan
Is it prejudging when you have years of evidence handy to support the claim he's an ass?

My mistake...I thought people were wanting to see him released because of the fight, not because of him being an ass.

[TroyF]

Well, he's been an ass for years and years. I wish he'd never have been on the two Bronco Super Bowl teams. Always have.

The fight? It just shows he's an ass all the more. If the fight was his first instance of bad behavior? That would require swift punishment and an apology to the team. (you send your teammate to the hospital, you apologize for it, period)

This isn't a first instance. Nor does it change my opinion of him. It just solidifies it.

TroyF

[Bee]

Originally posted by TroyF
(you send your teammate to the hospital, you apologize for it, period)

I can agree with that.

[Scholes]

Originally posted by FrogMan
I was a linesman at the now defunct Quebec Nordiques training camp for about 5 years, just before they moved to Colorado. While what you say is very true, about fights being pretty common place in an NHL training camp, they are also part of the game, which isn't really true about football. Also, fights in NHL training camps would sometimes be very short with a whole lot of dancing around, maybe a few jabs, but mostly right on the helmet...

FM

When I played Junior hockey in Sioux Falls during tryouts the coaches would come up to you on the bench, tap you on the shoulder and tell you to "mix it up with #6", basically ordering you to fight. They would tell #6 the same thing, and when you went out, you scrapped. Sometimes it would be friends fighting, other times not, but I just thought it kind of strange. I guess they wanted to see who could handle themselves, because it was a rough league, but that was tryouts. This was practice. With a known teammate. I don't think it's right.

BTW Skip Bayless was Rome's guest host and he was swinging off of Romo's nuts the whole show, and there were an awful lot of people upset with him.

[revrew]

Originally posted by TroyF

This guy lost a tooth. He had an orbital bone broken. He has damage done to his nose.

That's THREE big punches, anyone of which should have ended the skirmish. (we've all fought with our brothers or cousins, we know when we've landed somehting that crossed the line) Even if you say that one of the punches could have caused two of those things (which I'd concede could happen), that's still an extra punch.

TroyF

Don't understand this. Isn't the orbital bone the eye socket? So a fist the size of Romo's couldn't land a blow on the cheekbone, damaging both nose and tooth as well? I'm sitting here with my fist against my face, and it easily spans nose, eye, and upper teeth.

I'm thinking this is evidence of unavoidable problem in pro sports. Romo is almost certainly doped, only upping his rage factor, and he's so strong that bone is no match for one of his blows. Is this a surprise?

ESPN mag just did a piece on David Boston. Doctors are concerned that the human body can't take 250 lbs running at 4.3 speed. They think his ankles and knees will continue to blow out, because the body can't take what science is doing to him. Couldn't this just be a case of a man built too big to be able to throw a punch without it being potentially lethal?

I'd like to see this as a warning to the league, rather than as a villification of Romo. If Romo can do that much damage with one punch (I'm assuming a bit here), should these incredible Hulks that play football adopt a different standard of safety?

I could throw a punch and barely leave a mark. But when an NFL man throws a punch... He just has to live by different rules than the rest of us mortals. Couldn't the rest of the league learn from this?

[cincyreds]

just another senseless and classless act by Romo. He should be suspended for the season, just like the teammate he beat is out for the season.

The guy he beat up has a broken orbital bone in his eye.

Romo is a poor excuse for a football player!!