.. wonder what Jake Plummer would've done.

Tobias-Reiper · 12-05-2007, 11:57 AM

With all of the teams sporting a 21 sticker on their helmets this past Sunday to "honor" S. Taylor, I wonder what Jake Plummer would've done if he still was in the league.

If you don't recall, Jake Plummer was denied permission to sport the number 40 in similar fashion after the death of Pat Tillman, since he wasn't with the Cardinals any longer, and only the Cardinals had the right to wear that sticker.

If anyone needed to be "honored" (and I put honored between quotation marks because to me these are merely PR moves by the league) by everyone in the NFL wearing stickers on their helmets, it was Pat Tillman, regardless of how you feel about Iraq.

With Sean Taylor, well, sure he got shot and killed, but the circumstances were extremely different. Yet, we have an entire league, which is supposedly made up of "manly men", go all mushy over a shooting death that sure is tragic, yet it's not much different that the thousands of shooting deaths that occur in the US every year.

I know that I would not have worn that 21 sticker, unless I were a Redskin.

On a related note, I watched a little of the Whiners game last Sunday, and the 21 sticker was 3 times the size of the BW sticker...

12-05-2007, 11:57 AM	#1
Tobias-Reiper Merces Letifer Join Date: Dec 2004 Posts: 4,161	.. wonder what Jake Plummer would've done. With all of the teams sporting a 21 sticker on their helmets this past Sunday to "honor" S. Taylor, I wonder what Jake Plummer would've done if he still was in the league. If you don't recall, Jake Plummer was denied permission to sport the number 40 in similar fashion after the death of Pat Tillman, since he wasn't with the Cardinals any longer, and only the Cardinals had the right to wear that sticker. If anyone needed to be "honored" (and I put honored between quotation marks because to me these are merely PR moves by the league) by everyone in the NFL wearing stickers on their helmets, it was Pat Tillman, regardless of how you feel about Iraq. With Sean Taylor, well, sure he got shot and killed, but the circumstances were extremely different. Yet, we have an entire league, which is supposedly made up of "manly men", go all mushy over a shooting death that sure is tragic, yet it's not much different that the thousands of shooting deaths that occur in the US every year. I know that I would not have worn that 21 sticker, unless I were a Redskin. On a related note, I watched a little of the Whiners game last Sunday, and the 21 sticker was 3 times the size of the BW sticker...
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