Post by Steelers GM on May 17, 2009 19:52:01 GMT -5
May 17, 2009 16:48:22 GMT -5 @saintsgm said:
I still believe that thing of this sort still need to be carried out as a TEAM, because football is a team sport and the Pittsburgh Steelers are a team, not the Pittsburgh James Harrison's. He needs to shut up and join the rest of his colleagues.Seriously? So if the whole team goes bowling but he doesn't go its him needing to shut up? Please that is the most stupid thing I've heard today.
James Harrison would probably give his life for most of the team and lays it all on the field where gasp...a football team plays FOOTBALL.
I disagree. I see it as similar to TO's antics. He's disrespecting both the White House and his team by doing this.
Edit to Note: Specifically and especially, by doing this and by making a public scene about it.
To not go is not negative.
To not go regardless of administration is laudable.
To not go because the Cardinals had a chance to go is kinda, well, stupid. Of course the Cardinals would have gone had they won. I admit it's not exactly the same, but that's like me saying I'm not gonna marry Lori because you could have. You know? Kinda silly and stupid. I guess the best way I can put it is "childish." To say you don't want something or you don't want to meet/partake in an event because someone else would have been invited to do so is infantile
That said, it's his decision and it's not a negative thing. However, I would like to know the real reason he doesn't want to go. And I think the comparison to T(H)O is unjust. I'm not defending/attacking either player here, btw.
His comments about the Cardinals were basically a statement of the White House not wanting to meet the Steelers but instead the Super Bowl Champs. He was making a public statement that the TEAM visiting the White House doesn't matter but instead the TITLE the team carries. James Harrison was proudly saying that the STEELERS should be invited to the White House if they really care about the Steelers.