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Raiders DE Tyler Brayton Is Not a ManOn most Monday nights, one can find an interesting matchup or, at the very least, a good team whose performance will hold your attention for a few hours. This is usually helpful in cancelling out the mind-numbing commentary of Theismann, Kornheiser, and, when he's not sleeping, Mike Tirico. But tonight's game between the Raiders and a Seneca Wallace-led Seattle had so few redeeming qualities that I can't imagine many of you tuned in. And even if you did, you had to hang in until the waning moments to catch the first action of the evening. With 1:54 left to play, Mack Strong made a solid 4-yard run to keep the clock moving. But long after the play had ended, Raiders DE Tyler Brayton and Seahawks' TE Jerramy Stevens were still going at it. There was a lot of pushing and grabbing before the volatile Stevens made what appeared to be a half-hearted attempt at kicking Brayton in the knee. Brayton responded by kneeing Stevens in the jimmy.
Cristina is pictured in Lisbon carrying his man purse while sporting "see my bulge" jeans and carefully bleached ends. He is an abomination. He is not a man. And what Tyler Brayton did tonight is the type of shite Cristina would pull. I have no truck with kicking a man in the groin but as a woman, I'm protected by a double-standard. If I need to neutralize a hazardous situation, a swift kick to the goolies will aid my cause. But this is not acceptable behavior for man-on-man aggression. Jerramy Stevens has proven himself to be a wanking git, time and time again, and tonight was no exception. But at no point during the game did his behavior warrant such a weak dick move. If a man has the stones to go after another, be it on the football field or otherwise, I expect him to fight like a man, not like me. Had Brayton ripped off Stevens' helmet and beat him in the face, fine. If he had wrestled him to the ground and got a few licks in, okay. But when his first course of action was to kick Stevens in the sack, he should have left the field, showered, and hopped a red eye to meet Cristina Ronaldo at Louis Vuitton. He has more business getting a Mystic and a manicure in a London salon than playing football with the Oakland Raiders. Growing up a fan of this team has numbed me to random acts of thuggery and craziness but it did not prepare me for players kicking others in the knackers and then justifying said actions by blaming "emotions." That excuse is pure bollocks and wholly unacceptable. Art Shell was clearly lying when saying he planned "to show them the way, the 'Raider Way.'" Apparently, it's not enough that we continue to play like pussies; now, we have to fight like them too!  Posted at November 6, 2006 11:58 PM Permalink • Filed under: NFL , Oakland Raiders |
I couldn't find a picture of Brayton's cowardly act, so here's one of Cristina Ronaldo of ManUre.
Comments (16): Raiders DE Tyler Brayton Is Not a Man
Matt Geiger
November 7, 2006 4:44 AM
He should go the Mel Gibson/Foley route and blame it on alchoholism. That should fool most NFL fans, let alone the fans in Oakland
The Critic
November 7, 2006 7:52 AM
That was a poor display of sportsman....wait-it's the Raiders. Win or lose they always act like a traveling rap concert.
Toxic
November 7, 2006 7:57 AM
Your teams didn't have the best of times controlling their "emotions" this weekend then ;¬)
Flash
November 7, 2006 8:16 AM
Ugh, too true, Toxic. But I can at least take solace in the fact that Arsene didn't kick Pardew in the bollocks; that cunt more than deserved it.
NFL Adam
November 7, 2006 11:53 AM
Give Brayton a break, it was his first sack of the season.
zoogs25
November 7, 2006 2:25 PM
True Flash, but watching Cesc Fabregas bitch and whine like a pussy was sheer comical entertainment
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5j_pWJqNxM&eurl=
Brad
November 7, 2006 6:45 PM
I'm new reader (love your stuff on sports by brooks) but Ive noticed that youve got really hard and fast rules about what men can do and what we can't. Do you have a checklist or something for the guys that come in your life? You seem like a real stickler!
patrick houlihan
November 7, 2006 10:43 PM
Soccer playing girls should be an exception to the double standard. It's not fair that you get to kick a dude in the balls when you can kick a soccer ball off the ground at 90 mph.
Hadrian Drake
November 8, 2006 12:22 AM
What was the point of the kick anyway? I thought football players wore cups. Do they not??
Matt Geiger
November 8, 2006 3:15 AM
From what I know, football players do NOT wear cups.
Julius
November 8, 2006 12:02 PM
You can't wear cups out there first because it really fucks up your ability to cut and move. Plus you can end up gettin pinched when your body goes one way and the cup doesn't. THAT shit is worse than gettin kicked in the balls.
Adam Castro
November 8, 2006 3:02 PM
"He is an abomination. He is not a man."
LOL Warner by your definition, only 8 or 9 men actually roam the earth. But where ronaldo is concerned, I definitely agree with you
Slackin
November 8, 2006 3:58 PM
Open your Mouth, Insert Foot....
Did you even watch any of the game??? Did you see Stevens attempt the the first kick to the groin?? The author is ignorant commenting on half of a situation. The SquealHawks have been and always will be a sissy team.
Stevens is the Dennis Rodman of football, his antics are no worse then rodmans grabbing of shaq's ass during games to gain an advantage. Stevens got what deserved, a shot to head and then a shot to the groin back. Only difference is Brayton is a real man who finished what stevens started.
Watch for yourself and tell me who throws the first kick to the groin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVc3C0D4Ihw
Flash
November 8, 2006 4:19 PM
I watched every minute of the game. I'm not excusing Stevens here. He's a shitbag who deserved an ass kicking and if you actually read what I wrote, you'd realize that.
I don't care that Brayton retaliated; my problem is that he went after some guys' balls as the first option. As far as I'm concerned, if a guy is going to beat the shit out of somebody, the least he can do is be a man about it. Don't take cheap shots (like Stevens). Beat the shit out of them legitimately -- THAT I would have cheered. Going after balls is for chicks.
Herb
November 8, 2006 8:46 PM
Of course the knee to the groin was totally out of place on the sporting pitch, but my experienced eye tells me that Stevens has a potentially great future on the K1 fight circuit (especially now that all the world knows that Bob Sapp has no fighting skills whatsoever).
Stevens should leave the knees in the Muay Thai ring, and try to play football the way it was designed to be played-LIKE A TRUE SPORTSMAN!
Jack
November 10, 2006 5:05 PM
If you want to tell me that Stevens' leg going up into the air when he was SHOVED backwards was a puss-ass attempt to kick Brayton in the knee or groin, rather than an attempt to catch his balance, you need to get your eyes checked. Maybe Stevens' couldn't keep the taunting from escaping his lips, but you all have got to be joking if you really feel that that was an attempt to kick/hurt Brayton in ANY way. Any man would be ashamed and embarrased to be seen attempting such a pitiful kick, you can't think that Steven's is any different? You all think he is so bad, wouldn't he have just hauled off and DONE IT, and probably continued the fight rather than walk away like a real man? And don't give me the crap that he was trying to do it all on the sly to avoid fines... He did the right thing.