Dec. 3, 2017 - NE @ Buffalo - Gronk’s Dirty Hit

[Gugny]

Seven years ago today, Gronk lost his cool and hit Tre White with his bionic arm. 
 

He got suspended for one game without pay. 
 

After seeing Al Sharia’s hit on Trevor Lawrence earn him a 3-game suspension, I think Gronk’s penalty was appropriate. 
 

[Success]

What Gronk did was worse than Al Sharia's hit. 

 

[Gugny]

25 minutes ago, Success said:

What Gronk did was worse than Al Sharia's hit. 

 

Absolutely not. 

[Success]

6 minutes ago, Gugny said:

Absolutely not. 

 

Al Sharia's was reckless & out of control.  A bad hit.

 

Gronk's was pre-meditated and retaliatory.  Much dirtier by its very nature.

 

[US Egg]

Great timing on the thread. Can there be a thing as different level of scumbag hits?
 

If so I’m going with Gronkowski’s as 1st degree, Al Shaair as 2nd.

Edited 12 hours ago by US Egg
Oops, Shaair, not Sharia.

[BADOLBILZ]

 

I am glad the Bills fanbase is no longer in that whiny bichass sore loser mode like back then.    The exaggerated outrage over that hit was akin to that mom who claimed her daughter was thrown down the stairs at the game the other night.   There were jackasses that wanted Gronk to do prison time for a hit that wouldn't be in the top 10 of collisions in any given game.   Just because it was "premeditated".   As if what happens in the game is never premeditated.

[SageAgainstTheMachine]

I was at this game, the first live one I’d attended in a couple years.  The Gronk hit really distracted from what was otherwise the most boring game in football history.

[Ralonzo]

Gronk's move wasn't a football play, it was breaking a bottle over the back of someone's head at a bar. Al-Shabab was more like using knucks in a fight on a guy who already tapped, also a scumbag move but tangentially within the framework of the event.

[Sojourner]

So who’s worth $6m?

[Another Fan]

Seemed he went from a local well respected kid on these forums to ultimate scumbag after that play.  

 

 

Edited 14 hours ago by Another Fan

[US Egg]

21 minutes ago, Another Fan said:

Seemed he went from a local well respected kid on these forums to ultimate scumbag after that play.  

Ultimate scumbag? Nah.
 

Shaking the post career goofball image? Yeah, that’s gonna stick for awhile, but it pays, so…..???

Were he to consider pro wrestling the “Ultimate Goofball” kinda fits.

Edited 14 hours ago by US Egg

[Bad Things]

So, you started this thread to stick up for that dumbfark, Gronk now?

 

[SoonerBillsFan]

56 minutes ago, Success said:

 

Al Sharia's was reckless & out of control.  A bad hit.

 

Gronk's was pre-meditated and retaliatory.  Much dirtier by its very nature.

 

And he fought 2x with players after the hit and after the ejection 

[Another Fan]

35 minutes ago, US Egg said:

Ultimate scumbag? Nah.
 

Shaking the post career goofball image? Yeah, that’s gonna stick for awhile, but it pays, so…..???

Were he to consider pro wrestling the “Ultimate Goofball” kinda fits.

Maybe that wasn’t the best choice in words but it seems he was never exactly forgiven.  

[US Egg]

1 hour ago, Another Fan said:

Maybe that wasn’t the best choice in words but it seems he was never exactly forgiven.  

It was a scum bag move, but were it not a Bill he did it to, it likely get no run in here. He doesn't have a history like Al Shaair.    

Edited 12 hours ago by US Egg

[pennstate10]

2 hours ago, Success said:

What Gronk did was worse than Al Sharia's hit. 

 

No

[JP51]

2 hours ago, Success said:

 

Al Sharia's was reckless & out of control.  A bad hit.

 

Gronk's was pre-meditated and retaliatory.  Much dirtier by its very nature.

 

I agree with this... assuming Sharia's was not intentional... Gronk actions were with intent to injure.

[MJS]

The Gronk hit was worse because it was well after the play.

[947]

Tre was laying face-down on the turf, out of bounds, the whistle had blown the play dead. Gronk did an elbow-drop straight out of the WWE, while wearing a huge metal brace. That is worse than any hit that happens within the context of a play, legal or not.

[Rocky Landing]

2 hours ago, BADOLBILZ said:

 

I am glad the Bills fanbase is no longer in that whiny bichass sore loser mode like back then.    The exaggerated outrage over that hit was akin to that mom who claimed her daughter was thrown down the stairs at the game the other night.   There were jackasses that wanted Gronk to do prison time for a hit that wouldn't be in the top 10 of collisions in any given game.   Just because it was "premeditated".   As if what happens in the game is never premeditated.

I think there's a big difference between a dirty hit during a play, and elbow-dropping a prone player, from behind, with a metal brace, in the back of the player's head after the whistle. I am of the opinion that the league did not take those aggravating circumstances enough into account.

Just now, US Egg said:

I think Shaair’s forearm says otherwise, but it was “in the moment” unlike Gronkowki, who couldn’t handle White getting the best of him and lost it. 

Agree. Utterly dirty hit that has no place in the game.