hd&boatrider
10-13-2003, 07:06 PM
Anybody care? Lets see what the NFL does to this idiot.....
Sapp blasts NFL 'slave system'
Oct. 13, 2003 3:09 p.m.
For the second time in three weeks, a network NFL pregame show became the forum for some controversial remarks and this time Rush Limbaugh had nothing to do with them.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp, unhappy that the NFL office had warned him against a repeat of his Monday night skip through the Indianapolis Colts' pregame stretching line, blasted the league and Washington Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' "The NFL Today."
"He got what he wanted," Sapp said of Arrington, who had threatened retaliation if the Bucs' outspoken nine-year veteran tried to do the same before Sunday's game against the Redskins. "He snitched and slave master come down. That's all that is. ... Stop a man from doing something that he's been doing for nine years?
"And so now there's a rule against me. Thanks. I knew (the league) was gonna do what they did because they've been notoriously against Sapp. Like I said before, it's a slave system. Make no mistake about it, slave master say you can't do it, don't do it. They'll make an example out of you."
Sapp also had a few choice words for the NFL officiating crews that now are being asked to police teams' pregame drills.
"You gonna tell me these moonlighting officials are going to come out 45 minutes before the game and get a feel for the game?" he asked. "In pregame? I just want to know why people are moonlighting on another man's profession? Every other profession has full-time referees. That's all they do is ref games."
Limbaugh resigned his commentator's job with ESPN two weeks ago because of the controversy over his remarks that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
Sapp's comments on that also had racial overtones.
"I'm shocked that Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin just sat there and let this roll across their faces and didn't say anything,'' he said. "Do we not have anybody that understands that there's way more scrubs in this game that are Anglos than there are black ones that are being pumped up?"
CBS analysts Deion Sanders and Boomer Esiason both took issue with some of Sapp's comments Sunday.
"I was right with Warren Sapp all the way except for the slave-master stuff," Sanders said. "Leave it alone. That's not an issue."
Added Esiason: "I'm glad to hear that you said some of his comments were totally off-base. This is the NFL. We all play with rules. We all follow the rules. If he thinks he is singled out for whatever reason, I think he is incorrect."
Sapp did make contact with an official while skipping onto the field before Sunday's game, but he avoided the Redskins' stretching line and Arrington.
"I didn't need to run through their stretch," Sapp said after the Bucs' 35-13 win. "They've got a whole 53-man squad that we were coming after. That's what we were after, the game. It wasn't the pregame."
[ October 13, 2003, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: hd&boatrider ]
Sapp blasts NFL 'slave system'
Oct. 13, 2003 3:09 p.m.
For the second time in three weeks, a network NFL pregame show became the forum for some controversial remarks and this time Rush Limbaugh had nothing to do with them.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Warren Sapp, unhappy that the NFL office had warned him against a repeat of his Monday night skip through the Indianapolis Colts' pregame stretching line, blasted the league and Washington Redskins linebacker LaVar Arrington in an interview that aired Sunday on CBS' "The NFL Today."
"He got what he wanted," Sapp said of Arrington, who had threatened retaliation if the Bucs' outspoken nine-year veteran tried to do the same before Sunday's game against the Redskins. "He snitched and slave master come down. That's all that is. ... Stop a man from doing something that he's been doing for nine years?
"And so now there's a rule against me. Thanks. I knew (the league) was gonna do what they did because they've been notoriously against Sapp. Like I said before, it's a slave system. Make no mistake about it, slave master say you can't do it, don't do it. They'll make an example out of you."
Sapp also had a few choice words for the NFL officiating crews that now are being asked to police teams' pregame drills.
"You gonna tell me these moonlighting officials are going to come out 45 minutes before the game and get a feel for the game?" he asked. "In pregame? I just want to know why people are moonlighting on another man's profession? Every other profession has full-time referees. That's all they do is ref games."
Limbaugh resigned his commentator's job with ESPN two weeks ago because of the controversy over his remarks that Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because the media wanted to see a black quarterback succeed.
Sapp's comments on that also had racial overtones.
"I'm shocked that Tom Jackson and Michael Irvin just sat there and let this roll across their faces and didn't say anything,'' he said. "Do we not have anybody that understands that there's way more scrubs in this game that are Anglos than there are black ones that are being pumped up?"
CBS analysts Deion Sanders and Boomer Esiason both took issue with some of Sapp's comments Sunday.
"I was right with Warren Sapp all the way except for the slave-master stuff," Sanders said. "Leave it alone. That's not an issue."
Added Esiason: "I'm glad to hear that you said some of his comments were totally off-base. This is the NFL. We all play with rules. We all follow the rules. If he thinks he is singled out for whatever reason, I think he is incorrect."
Sapp did make contact with an official while skipping onto the field before Sunday's game, but he avoided the Redskins' stretching line and Arrington.
"I didn't need to run through their stretch," Sapp said after the Bucs' 35-13 win. "They've got a whole 53-man squad that we were coming after. That's what we were after, the game. It wasn't the pregame."
[ October 13, 2003, 08:07 PM: Message edited by: hd&boatrider ]