The people trying to justify this, with whom I pretty much disagree, are saying in different ways that AD was provoked. For example, when Britt pushed him out of bounds.
Here's the thing though.
How many times in football have similar things happened?
Yet how many times has a player retaliated
after a game--not even in the heat of the moment, but after the game--while deliberately putting his helmet on (which highlights how premeditated this was) and then confronting the opposing player violently. Got lots of examples of reactions like that...AFTER a game? Heck I know some NFL fans who never got over Richard Sherman shouting into a microphone about Michael Crabtree (I think it was) after a game. This was light years worse than that.
I would wager to say that whatever was done to Donald, or something very much like it, has happened to dozens of players a year.
Yet to my knowledge there is no one who begged the wrath of the NFL that way by deliberately putting on a helmet after a game and marching toward the opposing player consciously looking for trouble.
My best guess is that the league can't possibly allow that action to exist as a precedent inviting other players to do the same thing. The ax has to fall, they don't have much choice.
And...2 seconds of thinking on Donald's part before doing anything would have easily led him to that obvious conclusion.
Plus, it really does look classless.
I remember when Steven Jackson was playing with a broken finger and Saffold (I think it was) talked about how guys would go after the finger in pile-ups. Jackson would just get back up and play.
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Edited 4 time(s). Last edit at 11/11/2018 09:17PM by zn.
