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Steelers File Protest Against Unfair Advantage by Patriots

December 11, 2007 by Still Mill

Steelers to appeal unfair advantage by Pats
Steelers File Protest on Unfair Advantage by Patriots

 

Inside sources confirmed today that the Stillers have filed a formal protest to the National Football League, citing an unfair advantage by the Patriots that allowed the Pats to cruise to the easy 34-13 cakewalk victory on Sunday afternoon.

 

Some folks initially thought this protest involved video cameras, similar to the Jets� complaints early this season after playing against these same Patriots.�� Alas, the protest has nothing to do with illegal videotaping, but rather the situation in the 2nd half in which the Stiller defense was forced to play with 10 football players against the 11 of New England.

 

An unnamed source inside the Steeler organization stated on the telephone, �What the Patriots did in the 2nd half simply wasn�t fair.Their offense had 11 players on the field while our defense had only 10.�� This is a gross injustice and an unfair practice by the Pats, and we expect the NFL to issue sanctions against the Patriots or even force them to forfeit the game.���

 

The Stillers� protest apparently stems from what they thought was a mandatory 2nd half usage (by Dick LeBeau) of a fat, overweight, lethargic, slower-than-whaleshit, one-dimensional, entirely useless 340-pound nose tackle against an offense that refused to conduct a genuine running play until 2 meaningless plunges in the final 2 minutes of the contest.Forced to play 10-on-11, the Stiller defense was overwhelmed by the Patriots in the 17-point 2nd half cakewalk, in which the only Patriot drive that was stalled was due to the drop of an easy TD pass to a wide-open receiver in the end zone. ��

 

�It�s just not fair,� the Steeler source continued, �just because we employ a one-dimensional defensive football player that can�t do a single productive task except for �clogging the middle�, we should not be taken advantage of like this.It�s totally unsportsmanlike, unethical, and against the rules of common decency that The Rooney Family has established in the NFL.�

�Sure, we already know we have a defensive football player that cannot rush the QB, or harass the QB, or chase the QB, or bat passes, or cover receivers, or chuck receivers, or tackle receivers.Actually, he can�t do much of anything, but we�re paying him $4 million a year and it�s not fair that he�s on our payroll, eating a huge chunk of salary cap money, and an unscrupulous opponent is making him totally irrelevant, useless, and worthless.It�s just not fair and we think the NFL will see things our way.�

 

The NFL headquarters confirmed receipt of the protest by the Steelers, and is taking the matter under advisement. An NFL spokesman said the league office would issue a decision on this protest by Thursday.

 

 

(Still Mill and Stillers.com -- when it comes to the analysis of the Pittsburgh Stillers, no one else comes close�.)

 
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