{"id":25195,"date":"2010-02-04T16:30:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/02\/04\/saints-unapologetic-about-unus\/"},"modified":"2010-02-04T16:30:49","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T16:30:49","slug":"saints-unapologetic-about-unus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/04\/saints-unapologetic-about-unus\/","title":{"rendered":"Saints Unapologetic about Unusual Hurt the QB Strategy: “I don’t care about no fines, I’m gonna hit him” says big scary guy."},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent post<\/a>, I earned the ire of many poorly informed denialist football fans when I noted an obvious fact: The strategy used by the New Orleans Saints to win the playoff game with the much more deserving Minnesota Vikings, which involved trying as hard as possible to knock the Quarterback out of the game, was unethical, unusual, and intentional. Despite the protestations of commenters on this blog post<\/a>, numerous sports experts have joined me in this assertion.<\/p>\n

For example, Joe Theisman: “Ive been out of the game some 25 years. So, if you take approximately 40 years of professional football, I have never seen one man take the beating that Brett Favre took yesterday.” (source<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Since that game the Saints have been overtly describing their strategy for the SuperBowl: Hurt the Quarterback and knock him out of the game. They make no apologies for this strategy, even to the extent that one of the Saints defensive backs has openly declared that he does not care if his actions earn him a fine.<\/p>\n

See for yourself:<\/p>\n


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This is the end of football as we know it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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