The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2

I honestly don't feel bad for him at all. The amount of idiots I saw yesterday fooking around with Fireworks in their hands or trying to light them with small windows to get away once lit. How stupid people become around fireworks here is baffling.

TMZ comments can be brilliant sometimes.

Eli Manning has also injured himself in a sparkler accident.

Knex. wrote: »

Thing with fireworks is, even following all protocols and taking all safety measures etc, sometimes they still go wrong.

Yeah, as a professional football player he shouldn't be near them, but saying you don't feel sorry for him is a bit harsh. Especially without knowing the full story.

There's reports at the moment that he might even need amputation. Assuming the mean fingers there, and not hand, but still pretty horrible.

No one should be near them or handling lit fireworks in their hands. There is a reason why they tell people to leave it to professionals. The fireworks they sell here are as powerful as a hand grenade in some cases and the amount of people handling them with mis care is baffling. Even some of the basic fireworks are powerful enough to tear your skin off.

As for the assumption yes I shouldn't be making it but for his hand to blow off means he was most likely handling a lit firework. Now unless someone shot one at him or threw one at him and he caught it fair enough he may have been unlucky or he jumped on one to save someone else from being hurt fair enough.

But why should I feel sorry for stupidity? Have we now become a society of feeling sorry for people doing stupid things with items they know can hurt themselves or people around them. Did you feel sorry for Plaxcio when he shot himself in the leg?

even following all protocols and taking all safety measures etc, sometimes they still go wrong.

They generally don't and here in the US very few follow any safety protocols. I was on a small beach yesterday with Firework shooting off no less 50 yards away from me but the only two handling them were two guys shooting them off. But even still they were not really following any safety protocols neither do many on July 4th. Drink, big groups and people not trained to handle them lead to accidents every July 4th. I am almost sure Pierre Paul was not the only one yesterday in the US that did himself damage due to them.

helimachoptor wrote: »

Fantastic article by Albert Haynes worth

http://www.theplayerstribune.com/albert-haynesworth-letter-to-my-younger-self/

Thanks for the link to that - it was an interesting read. Always good to hear another side to the story.

That said - and maybe A Washington fan can correct me here - Haynesworth really dogged it for two years in DC, was unplayable at the end of his time there (not in a good way unplayable) and couldn't get it done in New England with Belichick either. A simpler explanation might have been he got paid and mailed it in.