Fandom gone too far? Pollard immortalized for hit on Patriots' Brady

by MaPatsFan on Sep 11, 2008 1:59 PM EDT

Now, I can understand drunks in New York's sports bars cheering when Brady went down. We have the whole New York vs. Boston thing going. We've been rivals forever, or at least since "The Babe" turned in his red socks for pinstripes. Two east coast major markets battling it out - I get it. Heck, I could even understand fans of our mid western rival, The Colts, taking a few shots (actually, it was the complete opposite. They've been pretty darn cool about the whole thing). But Pittsburgh?!?!

I do believe not every Pittsburgh fan is a complete dolt. In fact, quite the opposite. I actually have a friend who's a Pittsburgh fan. Well, not during game week, but that's beside the point. Let's move on, shall we? Apparently, a Pittsburgh fan or fans had the brilliant idea to celebrate the misfortunes of #12.

In a blatant act of asshattery and douchbaggery, I give you...

Pollard-fanclub_medium

I'd like to take up a collection. I'd like to buy one of these shirts for each of our OLs and send them to the locker room. Or maybe we should turn Rodney Harrison and Jerod Mayo into blocking backs, Cassel's personal bodyguards, if you will. Come within 10 feet of our QB and you'll be eating fertilizer. Oh, I'm sorry. I've heard a little soap and water will take the yard marker paint off of your facemask.

Search if you'd like, but I will not honor these idiots with a link. 'Nuff said.

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Palmer

Of course the Steelers support taking out QBs, it’s how they shut down those uppity Bengals.

by Mainiac on Sep 11, 2008 2:06 PM EDT 0 recs

too add to this

This is actually insulting to Pollard, since he would not endorse this group.

by Mainiac on Sep 11, 2008 2:24 PM EDT 0 recs

No class fandom...

April in CA

by peytonsthebest on Sep 11, 2008 2:50 PM EDT 0 recs

it will come around

I say thank you to the morons that decided this was cool.
If the rest of the league has figured it out yet, too bad for them, because the last thing this team needs is motivation, they find it any way they can and build on it, so how nice of it was these guys to hand deliver some?

by SRD on Sep 11, 2008 2:51 PM EDT 0 recs

Boy, nothing but class by the guys who made that shirt*

*sarcasm

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by MrNFL on Sep 11, 2008 3:27 PM EDT 0 recs

At first, I was inclined to be angry.

But then I remembered…

As Mr. Sloan always says, there is no "I" in team, but there is an "I" in pie. And there's an "I" in meat pie. Anagram of meat is team... I don't know what he's talking about. --Shaun of the Dead

by JohnHannahRules on Sep 11, 2008 3:40 PM EDT 0 recs

Disgusting

What kills me is that the Patriots and Belichick have been called a classless organization ever since some rookies copied Shawn Merriman’s “lights out” dance (ummm…which was performed by Mr. Merriman specifically to taunt the other team) after the game. It only got worse after spygate.

This is a rap that the neither the team, coach, nor organization ever deserved. Ever. Think the media will start slapping the Pittsburgh fans with the classless tag? Well, since the New Yorkers dancing on the tables were let off the hook, the T-shirts will probably slip by too. Sickening.

[In the Boston Globe this morning, Rodney] Harrison said that fans lose sight of the human element involved in the NFL – that the players are brothers, fathers, sons. “They look at us like machines,” Harrison said. “A lot of times, people really don’t consider that we’re human beings, we have feelings, it hurts. We go through a bunch of different things, but they get so wrapped up in the game. It’s not real life.”

Keep the faith!

by Marima on Sep 11, 2008 3:47 PM EDT 0 recs

yes,

Buy one of those t-shirts and send it to the patriots locker room with a message from us. Beat those ignorant sons of b!tches

by PaulRevere on Sep 11, 2008 4:22 PM EDT 0 recs

http://www.believemerch.com/product/bernard-pollard-fan-club-red-tee

by skywalker on Sep 11, 2008 7:24 PM EDT 0 recs

Awesome in a certain way....

Don’t get me wrong it is an insult to Brady and the team… But like it is stated above it is more ammo for us on the bulletin board… In one way thanks guys and on the other it is a shameless and classless. It is crazy..

by whizzkydd on Sep 11, 2008 11:48 PM EDT 0 recs

riiiiiiiiiiiight.

ammo. yeah, that’s it. wood to fuel the fire. sure. keep tellin’ yourselves that. maybe it will make this whole thing sting just a little less. eat your humble pie patsies – i hope it tastes like mediocrity ’cause thats where your team is headed.

by SE7ENS on Sep 12, 2008 2:59 PM EDT 0 recs

May I remind you...

…Pitt has had 2 SB visits since 1996 and has gone 1-1. New England has 5 SB visits and has gone 3-2. The only way Pitt has a chance of seeing the inside of an SB stadium is if Peyton or Tom are out for the year or retired. Pitt is the AFC wannabe right now, face pressed against the glass watching other teams dine on filet mignon.

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by MaPatsFan on Sep 12, 2008 5:02 PM EDT up 0 recs

we'll see

who’s gonna be on the outside lookin’ in come january. pats were terrible before brady and nothing i’ve seen has convinced me that they’ won’t be terrible after him. bill’s not a genius. he just won the qb lotto. i don’t think lightning will strike twice with cassell. i have to say though, i wish brady hadn’t gone down because in order to be the best, you have to beat the best and i was really looking forward to a possible afc title rematch of our two teams. oh well. there’s always next year.

by SE7ENS on Sep 12, 2008 5:32 PM EDT up 0 recs