djvh@drutx.UUCP (VanHandelDJ) (01/11/86)
> >>shot or extra hit. The Cowboys are one of the worst at this; the Jets, >>Packers, and Redskins have done their share of dirty work as well; remember >>Payton getting dumped over the bench by Green Bay a couple of months ago? >> > > I have a comment about the incident mentioned above. First off: > > 1) I am an avid Packer fan > 2) I WAS disappointed in some of the cheap shots the Packers took this > year, especially in that Packer-Bear game. > and > 3) I am a Waltor Payton fan. > > Now . . . I watch the incident mentioned above, and I think that Payton > instigated the action. He held Mark Lee as Lee was pushing him out of bounds, > and Lee retaliated. Unfortunately for Lee, by the time he retaliated, both > players had run to the bench, which they then fell over. Payton has such a > reputation that he could certainly never could have started something like > this, and the Chicagoland media was nuts over how bad the Packers were. In > my opinion it was a classic "throw the flag and call two penalties" situation. > Payton, who is normally a reserved player, and an all-time great, got away > with one. To throw Lee out of the game was absurd, as even the League office > admitted later that week. > I, too, am an avid Packer-Backer (or at least I will be when they get rid of Jim Zorn :-)). In the play mentioned above, the way I remember it is: Lee grabbed Payton by the shoulder pads and rode him out of bounds. As both players reached the sideline, Payton grabbed Lee by the facemask and pulled him away from the playing field. So Lee grabbed Payton and swung him around. They just happened to be near the bench by this time, which made the play look worse on Lee's part. I thought if any call was made, it should have been facemask on Payton. > The cheap shot by Ken Stills on Matt Suhey in the game was FAR more inexpensive > (cheap, I mean -:) ). Stills deserved to be thrown from the game, but wasn't. > I'd be willing to bet if he had leveled Payton, he would have been thrown out. > Yeah, that one was bad. But it did look neat :-) I'll be rooting for the Bears in the playoffs . . . Dave Van Handel