James Harrison Sounds Like Just Another NFL Blabbermouth

Forget about bars, pool halls and boxing gyms.

As we all know, if you want to talk tough and prove that you’re a real man, the best place to do it is in a men’s lifestyle magazine.

James Harrison must have just come to that conclusion, so he decided it was time to show off his true masculinity.

The Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker unleashed a vicious tirade in an interview for the August issue of Men’s Journal. In the article Harrison calls out and disparages commissioner Roger Goodell and throws a few verbal haymakers at teammates Ben Roethlisberger and Rashard Mendenhall.

Today, the sports media decided that since it’s the All-Star break and women’s soccer certainly can’t carry a whole day’s worth of sports news, this apparently had to be a major story.

You’ve probably seen some of James’ feistiest zingers by now, so there’s no need to reprint them here.

I’ve read a few of the juicy excerpts myself, and all I can say is that it just added to my sadness.

Lately, I’ve been troubled by what this generation of NFL players seems to be turning into, and this only added to my dismay.

The Twitter fights, the brash talk in interviews, the empty threats.  

It’s all just so ridiculous. I can’t stand it.

Honestly, is there anything dumber than a Twitter fight between two football players?

What happened to settling things on the field?

It only makes me wish I could have grown up in the days when guys like Nitschke, Butkus and Tatum were playing instead of this era of big-talking, little-walking prima donnas.  

Back in the day, you simply rammed your facemask into a ball carrier, spit on him while he lied unconscious in the dirt and then went over to the sideline to smoke a cigarette while the trainers stitched up your head wound.

No need for talking. The actions spoke loud enough.

Now what do we get?

We get James Harrison posing with guns and calling the NFL commissioner a gay slur.

What the hell happened, people?

Enough with all the posturing.

Could you ever imagine a guy like Jack Lambert doing something like that?

Of course not. Jack Lambert had something that a lot of current Steelers seem to be lacking.

He had class.

He wasn’t a whining cry baby like James Harrison and a lot of these current NFL players.

James, thanks for telling us all how tough and fearless you are. It certainly doesn’t come off as insecure in any way. No sir. There’s nothing insecure about having to take your shirt off and flex your muscles while holding two big guns.

That just shows us all how tough and crazy you are, right?

Because I guess that’s the new NFL way. In this day and age of Twitter, it’s all about talking tough.

That seems to be the way it goes for this generation of NFL players. It’s all just a bunch of needless jabbering that the media blows out of proportion.

We get it James, you’re mad you got fined and you feel like a target. That’s fine.

There’s a rational way of conveying that without saying you wouldn’t piss on Goodell if he were on fire because you hate him so much.

That just makes you sound like an ass with zero class.

I guess, in the end, James should do all the talking he can now, because by the time he hits 50, his brain is going to be pure jello from all the massive head hits he's taken in his career.

Maybe then he’ll have changed his tune about how big of a jerk Roger Goodell is for trying to stop his employees from slowly killing each other with unnecessary helmet-to-helmet hits.

I have to say that I do find it funny that this story just broke today, yet Mr. Fearless Honesty is already backtracking and saying he was misquoted.

Got to love how Harrison stands by his word.

Integrity at its finest.