Steelers escalate trash talk as Super Bowl anger builds

Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter peeled back the facade of Super Bowl civility, calling out Seattle's Jerramy Stevens and vowing to confront him in Sunday's title game.

[fear MSFT]

That's right, silly Steelers - keep talkin' trash. You KNOW how that's going to work out, come sunday. You will spend all afternoon figuring out where things went wrong... In a gesture of poetic justice, I think you should all be required to take the bus back to Pittsburgh after the loss, so you can come to terms with the awful humility of getting drubbed by the Seahawks.

[SteelerDave]

fear MSFT wrote:

That's right, silly Steelers - keep talkin' trash. You KNOW how that's going to work out, come sunday. You will spend all afternoon figuring out where things went wrong... In a gesture of poetic justice, I think you should all be required to take the bus back to Pittsburgh after the loss, so you can come to terms with the awful humility of getting drubbed by the Seahawks.

Seahawks and their fans won't know what hit em....Seahawks players have no idea what they are up against and cannot hide behind any 12th man in this game..I pity you!

[Rev Graham]

I found Joey Porter's comment on sending Seattle Seahawks players "to the sideline" to "sound like" a veiled threat of injuring an opposing player on purpose. I find this disturbing and it makes me question the Carson Palmer injury. No...I don't believe it (the knee injury) was intentional. However, I believe that the combination of "hatred" and "over" aggressiveness transforms "the perception" of an NFL game into a street fight. Football by its nature is aggressive and rough. The NFL though has been very vigilant in recent years to update or create new rules to protect players from injury. For a player to make a comment that could be seen as an intention to play outside the rules is at least inappropriate and maybe even dangerous. For example, let's say that during the game Jeremy Stevens gets seriously hurt by a "clean hard hit" by Joey Porter who did "not" intend to injure "anyone". What then would be the "perception" of his earlier comments. I'm pretty positive that no matter how sincere he expressed that he did "not intend" to injure Mr. Stevens that the perception would always be that he did. That is why such comments are ill advised and maybe dangerous to the way people perceive the NFL,the Pittsburgh Steelers, and even Mr.Porter who now might be one hard hit away from forever being known as a "dirty player".

[SteelerDave]

Rev: You are missunderstanding his comments. "tap them out" means for them to give up as in wrestling when you tap out, i.e. give up....

[Tracy]

Rev Graham wrote:

I found Joey Porter's comment on sending Seattle Seahawks players "to the sideline" to "sound like" a veiled threat of injuring an opposing player on purpose. I find this disturbing and it makes me question the Carson Palmer injury. No...I don't believe it (the knee injury) was intentional. However, I believe that the combination of "hatred" and "over" aggressiveness transforms "the perception" of an NFL game into a street fight. Football by its nature is aggressive and rough. The NFL though has been very vigilant in recent years to update or create new rules to protect players from injury. For a player to make a comment that could be seen as an intention to play outside the rules is at least inappropriate and maybe even dangerous. For example, let's say that during the game Jeremy Stevens gets seriously hurt by a "clean hard hit" by Joey Porter who did "not" intend to injure "anyone". What then would be the "perception" of his earlier comments. I'm pretty positive that no matter how sincere he expressed that he did "not intend" to injure Mr. Stevens that the perception would always be that he did. That is why such comments are ill advised and maybe dangerous to the way people perceive the NFL,the Pittsburgh Steelers, and even Mr.Porter who now might be one hard hit away from forever being known as a "dirty player".

Get real Rev! This is football!!

[BuCCS]

SuperbowlXL was a joke one big steelers commercial, whats sad is the seahawks out played the steelers,even the part where they show the players posing in those black and white pics with the trophy were mostly all steeler players but dont get me wrong the seahawks sucked but the steelers got help from their own 12TH man aka bill levy ha!looks like the refs won the game for the steelers.

[djh]

BuCCS wrote:

SuperbowlXL was a joke one big steelers commercial, whats sad is the seahawks out played the steelers,even the part where they show the players posing in those black and white pics with the trophy were mostly all steeler players but dont get me wrong the seahawks sucked but the steelers got help from their own 12TH man aka bill levy ha!looks like the refs won the game for the steelers.

werd to that brother

[Bluto]

To Rev. Graham, you have no idea what Joey Porter meant when he said what he did. Stop trying to read into this "YOUR interpretation" of his quote. Go back to your house of boloney and pray for us sinners.

[STEELERS RULE]

fear MSFT wrote:

That's right, silly Steelers - keep talkin' trash. You KNOW how that's going to work out, come sunday. You will spend all afternoon figuring out where things went wrong... In a gesture of poetic justice, I think you should all be required to take the bus back to Pittsburgh after the loss, so you can come to terms with the awful humility of getting drubbed by the Seahawks.

Pop off now....where is your justice and your humility??
Thats what I thought! GO HOME and suck it up.

[beau]

you east coast ferrie's got a free one,you liked your three ref's from pittsburgh,steven's would rock porter in real life,you guy's will suck next year,your ref's just wanted the bust to get a ring.

[SteelersWoman]

beau wrote:

you east coast ferrie's got a free one,you liked your three ref's from pittsburgh,steven's would rock porter in real life,you guy's will suck next year,your ref's just wanted the bust to get a ring.

Well then THANK GOD for the three refs that "fixed" it for us. Wow, to think they cared THAT much about the "bust" (just ONE man on MY team), that they'd actually LET us win it!! I feel so honored...lol