Jot this note down to yourself: cut the wise guy attitude and shut the hell up. You’re welcome.

Steph, hate to enlighten you, but in big-boy football that stuff goes on in the interior line almost continuously from one player or another, from play to play. Guarantee you the player on whom he was relieving his frustrations either was doing the same to him off the line of scrimmage, or taking cheap shots at his legs, or saying rather unsportsmanlike things about his momma. You don’t suspend a player for that. Maybe you have him do some extra conditioning so he understands not to commit penalties that would put his team in a bad situation. But you’re beyond silly if you don’t understand that these guys, at this level, just aren’t very nice people between the white lines.

By the way, resident Notre Dame homer, I noticed you didn’t say a single word about those nice kids playing for the Irish about how nasty they were behaving as they were jamming forearms and elbows into the helmets and facemasks of downed OU running backs and receivers following just about every tackle. Watch some video of the game and tell me I’m wrong. Why do they do this? It’s intended to breed frustration in the opposing player. And it works. And all teams at this level do it.

Jot this note down to yourself: football is rough.

You’re welcome.