Harrison questions NFL policy, won’t tweet during Pro Bowl

Posted by Michael David Smith

In the regular season, preseason and postseason, NFL players can get fined if they use Twitter at any time from 90 minutes before kickoff until after they’ve takled to the media after a game. But in the Pro Bowl, not only will players not be fined for tweeting, but it’s actually being encouraged, with computers on each sideline.

One of the NFL’s most-fined players isn’t fine with that.

Steelers linebacker James Harrison went on Twitter this afternoon to inform his followers that they won’t be hearing from him during the game because he doesn’t see the sense in the NFL’s policy.

“Why u think the NFL ‘wants us’ to tweet during the Pro Bowl but wont ‘let us’ til 90 min AFTER a real game? I wont tweet during today’s game,” Harrison wrote.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/29/james-harrison-questions-nfl-policy-wont-tweet-during-pro-bowl/

He's got a point

Harrison - love the guy, he's a pure rebel

I was expecting Harrison to protest the obvious lack of contact in the Pro Bowl. I watched the first two series of the game and had to turn it off. Ended up drinking whiskey and playing with a chainsaw just to wipe the softness I witnessed from my mind. I've seen more contact in a Pop Waner game than what was displayed last night. Oh, I get it, they are all superstars making a bunch of money and they don't want to get hurt ....

kirklandrules wrote:

I was expecting Harrison to protest the obvious lack of contact in the Pro Bowl. I watched the first two series of the game and had to turn it off. Ended up drinking whiskey and playing with a chainsaw just to wipe the softness I witnessed from my mind. I've seen more contact in a Pop Waner game than what was displayed last night. Oh, I get it, they are all superstars making a bunch of money and they don't want to get hurt ....

You'd better get used to it, KR, that's what regular-season games are going to look like in a few years.

Wallace108 wrote:

kirklandrules wrote:

I was expecting Harrison to protest the obvious lack of contact in the Pro Bowl. I watched the first two series of the game and had to turn it off. Ended up drinking whiskey and playing with a chainsaw just to wipe the softness I witnessed from my mind. I've seen more contact in a Pop Waner game than what was displayed last night. Oh, I get it, they are all superstars making a bunch of money and they don't want to get hurt ....

You'd better get used to it, KR, that's what regular-season games are going to look like in a few years.

100% agreed. It was like watching a high school dance. The boys are too shy to ask the girls to dance, so there's no contact. It makes me sick.