Jets Assistant Apologizes for Intentionally Tripping Opponent
- Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:45am by
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A New York Jets strength and conditioning coach has apologized for intentionally tripping an opposing Miami Dolphins player during a punt on Sunday.
“I made a mistake that showed a total lapse in judgment,” coach Sal Alosi said in a statement. “My conduct was inexcusable and unsportsmanlike and does not reflect what this organization stands for. I spoke to Coach [Tony] Sparano and Nolan Carroll to apologize before they took off. I have also apologized to Woody [Johnson], Mike [Tannenbaum] and Rex [Ryan]. I accept responsibility for my actions as well as any punishment that follows.”
“They’re cheaters,” Dolphins inside linebacker Channing Crowder said, according to ESPN. “They do what they do. They cheat. They talk junk. But we beat the hell out of them today.”
“It’s the Jets right?” asked Dolphins running back Ricky Williams. “We’re not surprised.”
ESPN says NFL spokesperson Greg Aiello told the network that the league will review items like this Monday and through the week. Dolphins coach Tony Sparano said he would submit the play to the league for review.
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Ksera Sugarmail
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:12amNot suprising from an assistant to a Ryan. I’m not suprised that Rex has a guy like this on his staff. The Rex apple didn’t fall far from the Buddy tree. But the Jets and the Ryans are being exposed for what they are…..Lard a _ _ bully frauds. Everyone in the NFL has figured out how to deal with the Jets and the Ryans. The same way you deal with any bully. You call their bluff, hit ‘em right in the mouth, and dare them to do anything about it. Then sit back and watch them disintegrate like Buddy did in Arizona. The ‘85 Bears weren’t about Buddy. They were about the players. Heck, Al Pacino could have coached the ‘85 Bears defense (even after that God-awful movie “Any Given Sunday.”).
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:11amFire him, simple. talk about unsportsmanlike conduct. and yet they go after a happy well-adjusted Christian kid who points to God after a blazing TD.
Report Post »westfayetteville
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:29pmBURNTHILLS
Report Post »great point
d35player
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:10amCan his ass!
Report Post »Packerdogs
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:50amBest form tackle the Jets had all day.
Report Post »Tagudinian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:47amApology? Why? You did it intentionally Sir. Why don’t you be a man and say, as your head coach would say, “That is just the way things are in the NFL… so get used to it.” You are a girly man for apologizing and a bedbug…
Report Post »VegasLibertarian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:40amHE should resign. The ONLY way he’ll ever get respect again.
Report Post »ron117
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:39amI suppose this guy has no character buy evidence of his actions, but if he has any ounce of character left he should not wait to be fined, fired or both, but resign immediately.
Report Post »Volsense
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:32amIf this clown is still coaching, then he makes a fool of Rex Ryan and the whole Jet organization.
Report Post »FaithHopeCharity45
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:25amCheap shot. This guy should be fired. What is happening to us and our sense of sportsmanship and common decency?
Report Post »Gas137
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:12amDandy Don Meredith attempted to do this when he was a quarterback. An opponent was running down the Cowboys sideline toward a TD and Don wento out about a yard on the field and tried to trip the ball carrier. Howard Cosell showed the tape to embarass Don on MNF.
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:23amIn this video it looks like the runner was way out of bounds, but he ought to get a Oscar for his performance after the fact.
Report Post »theVirginian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:18pmIt was a way different game back then. Dirty hits on the QB to knock him out of the game (or just out) were a part of the game. As physical as football is, the league fights to keep things as clean as they can or the cash cow it has become will dry up. And HD, if you took a shot to the thigh like that at that speed, you’d drop like a house of cards.
Report Post »tjdavid21444
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:07amLadies and gentlemen, we are witnessing the slow, steady transformation of the NFL into the WWE. How long before we have players (or coaches) going to the sidelines, grabbing a chair, and hitting an opponent with it? It’s all for the amusement of the masses. What do you thing the Finnegan/Johnson “fight” was all about? Lockout? Hell yeah, bring it on bitches!
Report Post »The Judge
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:58amEasy on the coach. Its not like he ran over a drunk guy (Stallworth) or stuffed his dead pregnant girlfriend in his trunk (Carouth) or killed some mangy beat up dog (Vick) I missed about a hundred other exploits. What about the player that ran close enough to him to put the coach at risk just for standing out of bounds. I am sure that the unprotected coach recieved some sort of injury since he was the one with zero protective gear plus he has suffered enough with all the humiliation. One might consider who the real victim is here. Left thinking is too dangerous to make a parody out of some will think its serious.
Report Post »MJPinCO
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:28amHow about we compare people to the best of others instead of the worst of others? The left loonies do this all the time. Classic example is Bill Clinton and his poor judgement. Instead of holding him up to someone honorable they responded by saying “so what? so and so did just as bad.” Bad and twisted argument.
Report Post »theVirginian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:13pmThe “coach” having his knee blown out would have only been poetic justice as he heads for the door. When he has paid some price (like jail time for assault) and can claim he has done his time he can reapply somewhere else in the NFL, if anyone will have him (re Vick)
Report Post »NoRoomForSocialismHere
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:56pm@ the Judge, you have been disbarred for lack of sportsmanship like conduct.
Put on Iron Mans suit and tell me where to meet you. I will find the ***** in your armor and I will show you ambush and unsportsmanlike conduct. See of you laugh then…I presume you like face masking, spearing, crack back, hitting the quarterback after he has thrown the ball and clipping and other personal fouls to name a few.
To please the new blood thirsty fans maybe we should just give them hatchets and let them have at it and may the biggest cheat live…
Spearing with the helmet has always been forbidden and why it has come back this year with a vengeance is unacceptable. Some of the thug teams have gone past football and made it more like the Roman style barbarianism. Remember when Jones of the Cowboys had the only money to so lavishly spend on uncontrolled overgrown children like Eric Williams. He cheated so bad they made two new rules just for his conduct. The Cowboys cheated for all of Jerry Jones bowl rings but the other teams got their money together and now Jerry Jones is suffering. Payback is hell.
Read up on Faith based moral-sportsmanship, it has been the center of AMERICAN LIFE from the beginning.
On the old abandoned corner lots with chicken wire barely hanging and holes filled with water for bases is where we learned sportsmanship without corrupt legislate from the bench judges. This is America and we still have morals regardless of you one percenters who do not count in the GAME of LIFE. I say it is time to implode all so-called sporting arenas and learn to live life. It would save billions of citizen’s tax money.
Dallas citizens that never went to game paid for Texas Stadium and now Arlington is paying for the new Cowboy arena of fools as well as their second stadium for the Texas Rangers while the players of foreign countries walk off with millions for just playing a kids game on juice. Many of them will be broke after they are turned out to pasture at 35 without any life skills such as fair play or sportsmanship much less responsibility.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:57amAh yes, the emergence of the culture of hate and cheating.
Sports are sports and ultimately not important as far as things go in life. However, actions like this reflect the culture that they’re perpetrated in. A one off isolated butt head, ok, whatever. But who hasn’t noticed the culture becoming more mean spirited and crude? I don’t mean “you crazy kids get off my lawn!”, I more mean things like Cheetos commercials that instruct you to enact actual revenge on people, or shows that glorify hatred, or classes where bullies are ignored but let little Johnny defend himself and he’s expelled.
Dunno. Things are strange now, I’m not feeling a lot of connection with what the world is becoming.
Report Post »Bad Thunder
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:52amBFD they are all just a bunch of whiners…..damn cameraman
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:50amWhat an embarrassment. You’re fired! Get your money and get out!
Report Post »heavyduty
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:48amYes, but the real question is would he have apologized if he hadn’t got caught? Everyone that gets caught is quick to apologize. There was no excuse for this type of behavior and if he doesn’t get fired then what is that telling the rest of the teams, and management.
Report Post »clockwatcher
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:46amFired.
Report Post »YouMayFireWhenReady
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:36amJets coach can always do the “Charles Barkley” excuse and say that he’s not a role model…he’s just an Ex-coach! He should start looking through the Classifieds and update his resume!!
Report Post »jnobfan
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:07amAs a coach myself I strangley understand what he did. Its something that is simply not permissable to act on the urge and he must at least be banned from the sideline. The tripped player IMO should consider having him arrested for assault. There’s a check waiting for you dude.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:56amI have read every post here. I am now asking every hunter and gun owner to please go to Wal-mart and buy a book to read…..“HOME INVASION” by William Johnstone. Cost me $5.24 and tax. The title is about a Texas town called HOME. [not about home invasions] It is a novel, but all novels IMO have a grain of truth in them. It is a fast read, at least for me it was. Took me 5 hours, but I tend to devour books. :)
Once you read this book, you will first find a place to hide your weapons.
guyperram
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:07amFar to late for that. They have been recording ownership since before I was born (a long time ago). You produce the weapon, or you get re-educated. Then you produce yoour weapon (assuming you have survived the re-education process, of course). Nothing new, that is the way it is always done.
Report Post »Sheepdog911
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:09am1st, What the heck does Home, TX have to do with Jet football? Stay on point.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:16amSHEEPDOG911 What they are saying is the coach should have shot that player…lol
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:53amAnother Woody Hayes moment, I Love it…….Who cares anyway their going on strike next year.
Report Post »So, Suck it up Nancy boys….
guyperram
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:53amHey dummies! IT IS JUST A GAME! Dispite all the BS, it has no meaning whatsoever in the real world. (except of course, to filling the pockets of a select few) So get real. The romans called it “bread and circuses” you are the circus.
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:07amRomans and the lions-however the gladiators-never had the spectators onto the floor of the coliseum.
Report Post »This guy is a coward-just like a terrorist-he hides like a woman-springs on the unsuspecting-and then says “i’m sorry”
Never-and the word is never should he be allowed near any sports program.
Creestof
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:27amI disagree. When so many of our kids today look to these sports and their players as role models instead of their own fathers (if they have one)…we have to at least hold them (including the coaches and others) to the sportsmanship we grew up with and hold in highest regards.
The man needs to be fired and banned from the game. He could have altered the outcome or even badly injured that young man.
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:50amI played football for years. Fun game but I (really) always tried to be the meanest player on the field. However, when the play was over, the play was over. One of my best friends played the line, across from me when we were in High School. On the field, neither one of us would ever give in, after the game, we split a pizza (with our girl friends, of course).
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:58amhe was running downfeild over 5 yards out of bounds with pads and a helmet on…if I saw him coming at me 5 yards out of bounds I would have tripped the murderous idiot too… some of you people think this is a Woody Hayes incident … I say different
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:50am5 yards is 15 feet…
Report Post »Creestof
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:54amOh, and in reviewing the tape, you can see he has 2 defenders on him and forcing him to the sidelines and beyond. It’s not like he ran out of bounds on purpose with some insane idea of hiding among the other team and tackling the runner in an ambush attack.
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:12pmFire and BAN that coach. The Miami player would never had been able to make a tackle if he had run out of bounds, per rules, so he was of no consequence. The Jets are like school on Christmas-no class!
Report Post »Dakota
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 6:04pmHey…time to lay off the coffee buddy… you are getting a bit too high strung.. Relax. Breathe.
Report Post »ebaytoad
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:53amcheaters never win…..
Report Post »Lesterp
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:51amSportsmanship Fail!
Report Post »ZOMBIE JESUS LOVES ME
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:40pmWin at any cost. That’s the way to play.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:49amThey have to fire him, that was one of the most unsportsman like things I have ever seen.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:52amJust another example of how all the honor and respect is being sucked out of this country.
Report Post »Shurmus
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:57amI‘m amazed he didn’t make up a special dance….
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:29amIt’s funny , They always say, I‘m sorry and I’ll except any punishment that I get.. First off, why did you do it in the first place ? and second , you’re out of the NFL forever, do you except that ? No ? ok uumm, how about a slap on the wrist ?
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:43amoh suck it Kate… why was he running off of the playing surface ????… I would have tripped the jerkwad too…
J… E…. T…. S…. JETS !!! JETS !!! JETS !!!!
HillBillySam1
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 9:50amNice to see that SOMEBODY on the Jets can actually tackle……
Report Post »JustTheFactsPlease
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:03amI want to think that football is a pure sport of competition. But sometimes I wonder… is there a george soros of the NFL? some one who is a puppet master who while they can’t control every aspect, could say have one team go super aggressive and then have refs not call it. Just saying… not sure myself. Some one please tell me it’s straight up competition.
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:03am… now that is funny hillbilly… LOL !!!… I remember quite a few decades of twinkletoe tackling……
Report Post »flamingliberal
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:12amMy Pats showed them what PUNKS they are last week, this is NO suprise…..
Report Post »CYCLONE
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:15am@justthefactsplease…..you are exactly right on this… it is better orchestrated than WWF wrestling…. (*this is why I would NEVER bet on an NFL game)*)…. look at the point spreads of each game every Sunday and then look at the results… a little bit more than bizarre irony….yehhh… it’s not rigged or anything(*sarcasm*)… that is why I like the purity of college football exponentially….
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 10:21amGive me a break TX, this is not a representaion of the country, this represents NY at most, the NYJ at least.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:04amBan him from the game. Not cool at all.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 11:18amThe entire NFL has lack of credibility and no integrity since they’re all juicing anyway.
Who even watches this crap anymore…
Report Post »drbage
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 12:39pmAlthough I agree that his action was at best unsportsmanlike, if he is fired it will only prove how hypocritical the NFL is. One set of rules for coaches and fans, but another set of “slap on the wrist” for the prima donna players.
Report Post »kindling
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 1:06pmI NEVER watch foot ball and I have to wonder why this player makes such a big deal out of such a move. He reals like he has never fallen down before. Don’t they learn to fall? Even my kids taking martial arts learn to fall in sports. This was way over blown and yes it was wrong to stick his knee out a few inches. I think that player got his pride hurt.
Report Post »hud
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 2:32pmIs that a white coach tripping a black player, must be racism. They should ban the whole team.
Report Post »SLAPTHELEFT
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 2:37pmThank you Cyclone… you’re everything we have come to expect of a jets fan. Your team sucks and theres nothing that can change that. The reason? Douche bags like you who lack honor, talent, conscience, and willingness to play by the rules. The Patriots will always kick your teams ass. Suck on that cheater. C-H-E-A-T CHEAT CHEAT CHEAT…then lose.
theVirginian
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:06pm@Kindling -
I think it was the unexpected charlie-horse to the thigh at 4:40 speeds that put him on the ground. You obviously haven’t been on the sidelines much – the players run, everyone else moves. He should be fired.
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 3:08pmWhat is this, “I do wrong, but forgive me because I’ll take punishment”? This guy sghould have been FIRED ON THE SPOT. “Lapse” of position, integrity, and character? No. People who do such things in any one instance will do them in any OTHER instance; they can not be trusted. Separate yourself from such people or be contaminated by them. The JETS ARE CONTAMINATED.
Report Post »canuck44
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 4:28pmDon’t fire him but run a pattern right at him…helmet to face will give the lesson. He will have to unbutton his pants to brush his teeth but the message will be sent. Sympathy? He will find that in the dictionary between syphilis and scurvy.
Report Post »Kurty C Wipe
Posted on December 13, 2010 at 8:45pmAgain…..Your watching this country rot
Report Post »Moment of Clarity
Posted on December 14, 2010 at 2:50amdrbage writes
“Although I agree that his action was at best unsportsmanlike, if he is fired it will only prove how hypocritical the NFL is. One set of rules for coaches and fans, but another set of “slap on the wrist” for the prima donna players.”
I say it’s not hypocritical at all … after all, the prima-donna players are what bring in the m-o-n-e-y, and that‘s what it’s all about. The NFL is not a democracy, it’s a business. Assistant coaches and fans do not generate bazillions of dollars for the NFL, so they, being of a low revenue class in the eyes of the NFL, have a different set of rules – it ain’t personal, it’s just business.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 10:54amShoot, I‘m suprise it was even brought to the publics’ attention. You think the Media is Biased toward politics, that is nothing compared to their sports coverage. I call ESPN “TheTom Brady Channel”…lol try being a Saints fan and getting any praise from the Sports Coverage. It’s a joke.
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 10:57amHilbillySam1 now that is funny…lol…and true
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 15, 2010 at 11:04amFLAMINGLIBERAL the Saints showed the Pats what was what last year when it counted, The only chance the Pats have is to win Home Field advantage and drag everybody into the snow where the whole country knows is an unfair advantage (except for ESPN that is) I am for leveling the playing field and making all bowl game into dome games
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