OT - Lomas Brown purposely missed block to get Scott Mitchell hurt

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OT - Lomas Brown purposely missed block to get Scott Mitchell hurt

“We were playing Green Bay in Milwaukee,” Brown said. “We were getting beat, 24-3, at that time and he just stunk up the place. He’s throwing interceptions, just everything. So I looked at Kevin Glover, our All-Pro center and I said, ‘Glove, that is it.’ I said, ‘I’m getting him out the game.’ . . . So I got the gator arms on the guy at the last minute, he got around me, he hit Scott Mitchell, he did something to his finger . . . and he came out the game. [Lions backup quarterback] Dave Krieg came in the game.”

Host Ryen Russillo expressed shock that Brown would admit such a thing, but Brown showed no remorse.

 

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/12/22/lomas-brown-i-intentionally-missed-a-block-to-get-scott-mitchell-hurt/

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December 22nd, 2012 at 5:59 PM | (No subject) (Score:-1 Flamebait)
December 22nd, 2012 at 6:03 PM | stop. (Score:5 Normal)
All Aboard
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We need to start trying this Cool Story stuff like politics/religion on this board. It is getting incredibly obnoxious to see someone posting COOL STORY BRO on every damn post thinking they're hilarious...

ALL ABOARD THE A-TRAIN!!!!!

" ~ Herm "

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:27 PM | Especially when the story is (Score:5 Normal)
LongLiveBo
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Especially when the story is interesting.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 11:55 PM | I am completely in agreement (Score:1 Normal)
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I am completely in agreement with the "cool story bro," I hate it, but I still enjoy the "this won't end well." There are some topics that come up and you think to yourself exactly that.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:30 PM | Seconded. (Score:4 Normal)
GRBluefan
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Especially since this actually is a cool story

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:58 PM | This is how I feel when I get (Score:1 Normal)
Professor X
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This is how I feel when I get a cool story bro

December 22nd, 2012 at 10:10 PM | "this will not end well" is (Score:5 Normal)
evenyoubrutus
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"this will not end well" is equally annoying IME.

Not that I loved Rich Rod less, but that I loved Michigan more.

December 23rd, 2012 at 1:29 AM | While we're on the subject (Score:2 Normal)
Tater
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"Cool Story Bro" is the last refuge of those who aren't able to create original, smarmy comments.  It is becoming a tired ex-meme.

 

 

 

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:00 PM | Hmmm... (Score:2 Normal)
justingoblue
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I wonder if that's what he teaches tackles to do at Andover High School, where he's currently an assistant.

Go Blue!

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:31 PM | He should be fired (Score:-1 Overrated)
December 22nd, 2012 at 9:14 PM | Cool story, Bra.... (Score:2 Normal)
Rage7
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Cool story, Bra...

(hahahahaha.... I've been drinking and I though it was funny...)

December 22nd, 2012 at 9:22 PM | A couple letters off of the perfect gift for the holidays. (Score:5 Normal)
justingoblue
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http://s-ak.buzzfed.com/static/imagebuzz/terminal01/2010/8/24/13/cool-starry-bra-3480-1282670970-15.jpg

Go Blue!

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:32 PM | Probably not... (Score:1)
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Anymore, since Andover football no longer exists (Andover class of 1997)

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:46 PM | This was the last year, was (Score:2)
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Sorry for off topic, but...this was the last year, was it not?  They merge with Lasher after the end of the current school year, I believe.  I was on the Andover swim team and they are announcing some type of reunion for the last dual meet the teams will swim against each other. 

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:56 PM | Yep... (Score:1)
GRBluefan
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This was it. Andover only got through 3 games this year before folding due to lack of players. Just one Bloomfield hills high school next year.

December 22nd, 2012 at 11:14 PM | There is no more Andover (Score:3 Funny)
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There is no more Andover football team. They're merging with Lahser next year and canceled most of the season this year due to lack if student interest, specifically a lack of linemen.

(Blogger alias: "Misopogon") This team is under construction. We thank you for your patience.

December 22nd, 2012 at 11:29 PM | Yeah. (Score:1)
justingoblue
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I didn't realize that they folded midseason, just that he took an assistant job for 2012.

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December 23rd, 2012 at 7:40 AM | I thought they ran out of (Score:2)
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I thought they ran out of quarterbacks.

December 22nd, 2012 at 11:51 PM | As a former Andover High (Score:5 Normal)
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As a former Andover High School (Go Barons) lineman, we did just fine whiffing on blocks without professional help.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:01 PM | Wow (Score:4 Normal)
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This was probably a "best known secret" deal in NFL circles but to admit it on ESPN is nuts.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:05 PM | Green Bay isn't in Milwaukee (Score:-1 Overrated)
December 22nd, 2012 at 6:10 PM | The Packers have played home (Score:5 Normal)
Farstate
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The Packers have played home games in Milwaukee over the years.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:26 PM | The game was at Milwaukee County Stadium (Score:4 Normal)
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http://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/199411060gnb.htm

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:08 PM | Well that wasn't very nice of (Score:3 Insightful)
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Well that wasn't very nice of him. 

For a' that, an' a' that, 
Our toils obscure an' a' that, 
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, 
The man's the gowd for a' that. 
December 23rd, 2012 at 4:13 PM | I used to (Score:1)
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think very highly of Brown.  Now he is a piece of sh!t to me.  How can a lineman want to injure a fellow team mate?  I understand taking a play off every once in a while, but dang.

So in the spirit of Christmas (vacation) Mr. Brown is a......

 

From the Red Cedar Message Board:  "God hates us."  Yes He does Lil Bro, yes he does.  Everyone hates you.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:08 PM | Damn (Score:3 Normal)
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A Christmas gift from Lomas Claus....It's a broken finger!

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:14 PM | It's not uncommon in the NFL (Score:4 Normal)
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I remember a group of Bears who used to go after Cedric Benson in practice all the time. The lineman would tip the play, miss his block on purpose and Urlacher would clean him out.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:19 PM | Apparently Lomas is another guy Singletary can’t win with. (Score:2 Normal)
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What an ass. I understand not liking a teammate, but to fail to fo your job in order to hurt the guy and by extension, the team, is reprehensible. I lost all respect for a guy who was a very good tackle for the Lions.

"The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Urban Meyer!"

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:23 PM | So the awful history of the (Score:5 Normal)
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So the awful history of the Lions gets even worse. It's bad that the only really quality lineman they ever had in the Barry era deliberately missed a block; its worse that the "franchise quarterback" of the prime years of Barry Sanders was so awful that his own linemen were okay with him getting hurt and even tried to let it happen. And that said quarterback continued to be the Lions QB for another couple of seasons.

From the quotes of Brown in the article, his hostility toward Mitchell can't be just a result of Mitchell's bad play. There is clearly no love lost between them.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:57 PM | Kevin Glover and Eric Andolsek were good players as well. (Score:2 Informative)
SalvatoreQuattro
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Alas,  Andolsek was run over by a semi while mowing his front lawn. Add to this Reggie Brown, Mike Utley, and Chuck Hughes and the Lions curse makes the Cubs curse look tame. People suffer death and life altering injury in the Lions curse.

"The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Urban Meyer!"

December 22nd, 2012 at 8:43 PM | Ring Ring (Score:3 Normal)
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Joe Delaney called to remind you the Chiefs have had some pretty bad luck too.

But yeah, Andolsek's death never got enough attention in this town. He would have made the Pro Bowl his last season had he not uttered one too many racial epithets during play. He and Spielman were pretty tight.

Andolsek was the widest homo sapien I've ever seen. My wife suprised me with a trip to Lions' camp at Oakland U his rookie summer. Far off in the distance I saw an older Lion, a well-known DT whose name escapes me now. Eric Williams? Eric Williams. The guy was working on his own away from everyone else, with a coach. Every few minutes some other player was brought over to go one-on-one with Willams for some snaps. He ate them alive.

At some point they bring Andolsek over. Coach blows whistle and they scrum to a draw. Reset, do it again. Reset, do it again. Now Williams is pissed and decides to dish the kid some extracurricular physical abuse after the whistle. From the view of my binoculars the kid doesn't seem to respond at all. Williams is now just yelling at him. Coach decides to bring someone else in and Andolsek walks quietly away.

I didn't know who the kid was and I look him up on the program. Andolsek, 5th round from LSU. I learn his number and decide to keep an eye out for him after the practice is over.

Practice ends and the players begin the hike over to our part of the field and start signing autographs. I'm keeping an eye out for Rodney Peete. Hard to miss; the guy looked like a movie star from 50 yards away. He gets closer and closer, but someone else gets in my line of sight. The guy is so wide that he blocks Peete from view completely. Its Andolsek. A total eclipse of the Peete. Rodney could have died on the spot and I never would have seen it.

I get Andolsek's autograph and I'm practically speechless. I'd never seen a human built like him before. And never since. They called William Perry the Fridge. Andolsek got a nickname too; the Table. Could have called him the Doorway, because I don't know how he could fit thru one. He would have gone down as maybe the best guard ever to wear the Honolulu Blue & Silver.

The only thing you learn from history is that you never learn from history.

December 22nd, 2012 at 9:35 PM | The Chiefs have won a Super Bowl. (Score:1)
SalvatoreQuattro
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That eliminates them from the curse talk. Every team has real life tragedies, but few combine that with on-the-field futuility so superbly as the Lions do.

"The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Urban Meyer!"

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:25 PM | This changes my opinion of (Score:5 Normal)
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This changes my opinion of Lomas.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:35 PM | What a piece of shit.Not (Score:5 Normal)
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What a piece of shit.

I don't care how bad someone is, doing something to deliberately cause physical harm to a teammate is just...  man, I don't even know if there's a word for it.  

I don't recall if he's a hall of famer or if his number is retired but if either are the case they should be revoked.  

 

CJK5H

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:39 PM | Does frequency of occurrance (Score:3 Normal)
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Does frequency of occurrance make it right? If you found out that virtually every major college football program cheated, would you then say "well okay, then, must not be that bad?" 

I'm really tempted to provoke Godwin's law here. So what if it happens a lot?

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:51 PM | Way to generalize it (Score:2 Normal)
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Every league have their share of criminals. You sound like a kid who got picked last at dodgeball and get beat up by the jocks at dodgeball

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:56 PM | Most players are criminals? (Score:4 Normal)
SalvatoreQuattro
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Do you have data to support your conclusion or are you, like a bigot, labeling an entire group based off of the actions of a tiny  fraction of said group?

"The Ruhr will not be subjected to a single bomb. If an enemy bomber reaches the Ruhr, my name is not Hermann Göring: you can call me Urban Meyer!"

December 22nd, 2012 at 7:00 PM | What? (Score:5 Normal)
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"Play some time and you'll understand it's kill or be killed"

 

So by kill or be killed you're suggesting that somehow Mitchell's being on the field was a threat to Brown?  It really dumb when people (you in this case) throw out stupid rap lyric or whatever it is and pretend it actually means something.  The guy intentially didn't do his job to try to injure a teammate.  When you played football you did that all the time? I guess that doesn't surprise me JayZ.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 7:08 PM | You (Score:5 Normal)
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Are an idiot.

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December 23rd, 2012 at 12:07 AM | You do understand (Score:1)
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That they were on the same team, right?

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December 23rd, 2012 at 12:21 PM | I highly doubt that the (Score:3 Normal)
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I highly doubt that the majority of players in the NFL have a criminal record. 

See it through.

December 23rd, 2012 at 2:45 AM | If it's not an inherently (Score:1)
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If it's not an inherently harmful situation, the frequency of occurrance can be a good argument for making something legal that is currently illegal: prohibition is a good example, the overtures towards paying college atheletes a stipend last year is another.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:45 PM | "And for Brown, who is suing (Score:5 Normal)
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"And for Brown, who is suing the NFL because he says the NFL didn’t do enough to protect players from concussions, to celebrate the fact that he once stood by and allowed an opponent to take an injury-causing free shot at a teammate, is pitiful."

Sums it up perfectly.

December 22nd, 2012 at 8:15 PM | Aside from actually doing the (Score:4 Normal)
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Aside from actually doing the deed, he is a fool for publicly admitting it. I doubt it could happen, but it would be cool if this info derailed his participation in the lawsuit.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 6:48 PM | Go back to Bo's Team speech. (Score:3 Normal)
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It puts that into perspective I guess. Also underscores the Lion's inability to win...everybody was rowing their own boat.

December 22nd, 2012 at 6:58 PM | Yea Lomas, Dave Krieg would (Score:1 Funny)
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Yea Lomas, Dave Krieg would have done a much better job.

"im saying to myself should i do it should i not. I crossed the goaline and hey...fuck it" Desmond Howard on his Heisman pose

December 22nd, 2012 at 7:35 PM | Actually, Dave Krieg did do a (Score:3 Normal)
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Actually, Dave Krieg did do a much better job. He basically led the Lions into the playoffs that year and posted significantly better stats. 

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December 22nd, 2012 at 7:39 PM | If you listen to the rest of (Score:2)
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If you listen to the rest of the interview, the Lions ended up losing by three. They were down 24-3 when Mitchell went down. So, yeah, he did play better.

It might not be the smartest or cleanest thing to do, but the point of the story was that teammates get super frustrated with terrible quarterback play, i.e. Mark Sanchez. Brown talked about how the o-line was busting its collective ass and mitchell was making terrible mistakes, killing the team.

The dirty part was when the host suggested why not tell mitchell to fake an injury and sit out. Brown insinuated that, because he was so frustrated, he wanted mitchell to get hurt. That's pretty low, but I certainly can understand getting frustrated at awful QB play, especially when it appears he isn't giving it 100 percent.

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December 22nd, 2012 at 7:43 PM | Well... (Score:3 Normal)
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He kind of did.  Went 5-2 from there on out with 14 TDs and 3 INTs.  I could tell he was better even though I was about eight years old.  I still remember him getting sacked at the end of that playoff game against the Packers... although that doesn't exactly help my point.     

December 22nd, 2012 at 8:08 PM | Can't be held against him. (Score:2)
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Can't be held against him. The Lions never, ever win in Green Bay, and that playoff game was a classic example. Of course, in '94 the memory of the last win ('91) was still recent, but we know now that the Lions basically enter an infinite improbability field whenever they cross the Wisconsin state line.

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