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01-06-2013, 02:24 PM
How many stories are written each year in which the name "Ryan Clark" and the word "Tweet" or some variation thereof are in the lead?
A few, at least.
Not that it's a bad thing. It's usually compelling discussion. The Steelers' loquacious free safety isn't one to shy from expressing his opinion, regardless of the topic. He weighs in on high school athletes choosing Louisville over his alma mater, LSU, and how his favorite hoops team, the Los Angeles Lakers are doing.
He even recently decided to point out what he feels is hypocrisy behind the forever linked criminal situations involving Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger and soon-to-be-retiring Ravens LB Ray Lewis.
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@RealRClark25
It's sad that all the Steeler fans who get upset when people speak on Ben's situation continually bring up Ray Lewis' case. #glasshouse
3 Jan 13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
It got attention from Deadspin recently, and for justifiable reasons. One player speaking out in favor of a marquee player of his team's rival is certainly something that will be noticed.
And Clark's motives are his own. He seems more the buddy-buddy type - as displayed in this humorous video in which Clark sneaked into the Ravens locker room after Baltimore defeated Pittsburgh 13-10 in Week 11, and partook in the media interview of Ed Reed at his locker. Reed and Clark grew up together in Louisiana, and Clark's question was about how he felt about a "rumor that you are not the best safety in metro New Orleans, and that it really was the kid from Shaw, who was discriminated against because he was skinny?'
Reed bursts out laughing when he sees him, complete with digital recorder, as part of the media pool.
It's sometimes good to be reminded the athletes themselves can't possible share the same kind of passion for our teams. It doesn't mean that passion is any less intensely competitive, it's just different. Many of them, like Clark portrays in the video, have loyalties toward their hometowns and regions, and their colleges. Not many of them have more than one opportunity to choose the team for which they'd play, and it's rare when being a free agent is a good thing.
So it's understandable why Clark comes to the defense of at least one of his NFL colleagues. His tweet speaks against those whom he feels are vilifying Ray Lewis while still being upset when fans of other teams mention the allegations against Roethlisberger from two separate women involving incidents in Nevada and Georgia.
It's hard to argue with the general sentiment Clark is expressing, and it's highly unlikely he means anything deeper than to express a message of hypocrisy. He's right; it's hard for Steelers fans to attack Ray Lewis for the allegations surrounding the night of Jan. 31, 2000, in which a scuffle he admitted to participating in (to be a peacekeeper, in his words) resulted in the murder of two men by multiple stab wounds while being upset over people bringing up alleged criminal misconduct by Roethlisberger.
But those things are not mutually exclusive.
Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for telling those in his party to not say anything to police about what happened in exchange for his testimony against two of his friends. Both were found not guilty.
The Deadspin article itself incorrectly (perhaps libelously) calls Roethlisberger a "noted rapist." Noted, perhaps in the eyes of those who don't cheer for Roethlisberger or the Steelers, or perhaps from people who feel the lack of evidence or charge against him does not preclude the possibility he raped those women.
The article, in the same paragraph, also labels Lewis as a "noted accessory-to-murder," which is as criminally incorrect as calling Roethlisberger a rapist, but if nothing else, closer to reality in circumstantial evidence.
read more....http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2013/1/6/3841828/steelers-ravens-ryan-clark-tweet-ray-lewis-ben-roethlisberger-murder-rape
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http://deadspin.com/5973379/ryan-clark-made-a-good-point-about-hypocritical-steelers-fans?tag=pittsburgh-steelers
Steelers Safety Ryan Clark Made A Good Point About Hypocritical Steelers Fans
Isaac Rauch
If there's one thing we learned while sifting through the assorted vitriolic, typo-ridden responses to the Why Your Team Sucks series, it's that many fans have no perspective when it comes to their favorite teams and players. Morals go out the window ("He basically paid his debt to society!"), logical fallacies become tent poles of backseat strategizing ("He just needs receivers!"), and expectations change drastically according the color of uniform a given player is wearing ("We traded him because he's a traitor!"). Anyone who draws attention to any of these things is, obviously, a hater, and more pertinently, a fan of the rival team. It's math.
Steelers safety Ryan Clark has noticed this, so go ahead and count him among the haters and possibly among the card-carrying Ravens fans. Yesterday, he pointed out that those who lionize noted rapist Ben Roethlisberger while impugning noted accessory to murder Ray Lewis are "sad":
Ben needs to sue these mothefuckers at Deadspin! :mad:
A few, at least.
Not that it's a bad thing. It's usually compelling discussion. The Steelers' loquacious free safety isn't one to shy from expressing his opinion, regardless of the topic. He weighs in on high school athletes choosing Louisville over his alma mater, LSU, and how his favorite hoops team, the Los Angeles Lakers are doing.
He even recently decided to point out what he feels is hypocrisy behind the forever linked criminal situations involving Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger and soon-to-be-retiring Ravens LB Ray Lewis.
ryan clark
✔
@RealRClark25
It's sad that all the Steeler fans who get upset when people speak on Ben's situation continually bring up Ray Lewis' case. #glasshouse
3 Jan 13 ReplyRetweetFavorite
It got attention from Deadspin recently, and for justifiable reasons. One player speaking out in favor of a marquee player of his team's rival is certainly something that will be noticed.
And Clark's motives are his own. He seems more the buddy-buddy type - as displayed in this humorous video in which Clark sneaked into the Ravens locker room after Baltimore defeated Pittsburgh 13-10 in Week 11, and partook in the media interview of Ed Reed at his locker. Reed and Clark grew up together in Louisiana, and Clark's question was about how he felt about a "rumor that you are not the best safety in metro New Orleans, and that it really was the kid from Shaw, who was discriminated against because he was skinny?'
Reed bursts out laughing when he sees him, complete with digital recorder, as part of the media pool.
It's sometimes good to be reminded the athletes themselves can't possible share the same kind of passion for our teams. It doesn't mean that passion is any less intensely competitive, it's just different. Many of them, like Clark portrays in the video, have loyalties toward their hometowns and regions, and their colleges. Not many of them have more than one opportunity to choose the team for which they'd play, and it's rare when being a free agent is a good thing.
So it's understandable why Clark comes to the defense of at least one of his NFL colleagues. His tweet speaks against those whom he feels are vilifying Ray Lewis while still being upset when fans of other teams mention the allegations against Roethlisberger from two separate women involving incidents in Nevada and Georgia.
It's hard to argue with the general sentiment Clark is expressing, and it's highly unlikely he means anything deeper than to express a message of hypocrisy. He's right; it's hard for Steelers fans to attack Ray Lewis for the allegations surrounding the night of Jan. 31, 2000, in which a scuffle he admitted to participating in (to be a peacekeeper, in his words) resulted in the murder of two men by multiple stab wounds while being upset over people bringing up alleged criminal misconduct by Roethlisberger.
But those things are not mutually exclusive.
Lewis pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for telling those in his party to not say anything to police about what happened in exchange for his testimony against two of his friends. Both were found not guilty.
The Deadspin article itself incorrectly (perhaps libelously) calls Roethlisberger a "noted rapist." Noted, perhaps in the eyes of those who don't cheer for Roethlisberger or the Steelers, or perhaps from people who feel the lack of evidence or charge against him does not preclude the possibility he raped those women.
The article, in the same paragraph, also labels Lewis as a "noted accessory-to-murder," which is as criminally incorrect as calling Roethlisberger a rapist, but if nothing else, closer to reality in circumstantial evidence.
read more....http://www.behindthesteelcurtain.com/2013/1/6/3841828/steelers-ravens-ryan-clark-tweet-ray-lewis-ben-roethlisberger-murder-rape
- - - Updated - - -
http://deadspin.com/5973379/ryan-clark-made-a-good-point-about-hypocritical-steelers-fans?tag=pittsburgh-steelers
Steelers Safety Ryan Clark Made A Good Point About Hypocritical Steelers Fans
Isaac Rauch
If there's one thing we learned while sifting through the assorted vitriolic, typo-ridden responses to the Why Your Team Sucks series, it's that many fans have no perspective when it comes to their favorite teams and players. Morals go out the window ("He basically paid his debt to society!"), logical fallacies become tent poles of backseat strategizing ("He just needs receivers!"), and expectations change drastically according the color of uniform a given player is wearing ("We traded him because he's a traitor!"). Anyone who draws attention to any of these things is, obviously, a hater, and more pertinently, a fan of the rival team. It's math.
Steelers safety Ryan Clark has noticed this, so go ahead and count him among the haters and possibly among the card-carrying Ravens fans. Yesterday, he pointed out that those who lionize noted rapist Ben Roethlisberger while impugning noted accessory to murder Ray Lewis are "sad":
Ben needs to sue these mothefuckers at Deadspin! :mad: