The talking heads in the media went to work after the incident occurred and spared no time in saying the kick was intentional and continued on their rampage to explain how Suh is a "dirty" player.
Shannon Sharpe on the CBS NFL Today show gave his examples as to why Suh is a dirty player and deserves to fined and suspended because of the recent history. In the ramblings, he showed video of aggressive plays of Ndamukong Suh in his time in Detroit. The tape fails to show how exactly Suh has shown to be a dirty player and taking cheap shots on opponents and instead the video shows times of aggressiveness that many other players have done in this league, but those players have been ignored.
How is any of this fair to Suh and the Lions?
If one player performs a certain aggressive play and gets the moniker of a "dirty player" and another performs the same actions, and those same people disregard that, where is the fairness when analyzing Suh's game?
Now let's take a look at the alleged kick on Thanksgiving:
Slow-motion shots do show that there is a possibility of the kick being intentional, showing that when Suh's contacted Schaub's groin, he appeared to extend the leg as many of the analysts would describe. How in the good lord's name can anyone with common sense tell you that a 300 pound defensive lineman getting taken down to the ground with their legs flailing in the air possibly land a kick on purpose? Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee couldn't even land a kick like that on purpose let alone an accidental play. All this attack from many members of the media against Suh is fair and unjust, as there has been worse incidents that have occurred, and those same media members just turned their heads.
Speaking of which, I will now transition and break down a recent incident from the NFL that involved a kick that was intentional and received little to no recognition from the national media as signs of dirty play.
This video was taken during a game between the Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings in a 2011 game. The incident occurred between Packers guard T.J. Lang and Vikings defensive end Brian Robison:
Yeah, this was unintentional and just a good football play. Robison was fined a meager $20 thousand for a completely intentional kick and was not even thought of being suspended. The worst part of it was that after a small bit reported on, no anchor or broadcaster said one word following the incident. Where is the fairness?
There are a couple more incidents that occurred the Sunday following the alleged "groin kick." However, there is no youtube videos out for them and I have not found any other source to post them. So the video above will work just fine for right now.
In closing, I would like to say that if I had a reason to watch the FOX pregame show over CBS (even though I do anyways because FOX is just a better show overall), it would be because horrible display of journalistic integrity from the anchors on CBS. Their attacks on Ndamukong Suh is unfair and unjustifiable.
As a proud Lions fan, I am officially boycotting my views on the NFL Today on CBS based on the poor analysis from the staff and the constant bashing a team like the Lions receive from the panel and not being fair towards the team, the player, and the fan-base of that team.
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