Rashard Mendenhall raises eyebrows with Bin Laden tweets...

• BR1986FB

  After his "slavery" comment the idiot should just keep his mouth shut....
  
  http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/02/rashard-mendenhall-raises-eyebrows-with-bin-laden-tweets/
• Commander of Awesome

  

  SMH, this is embarrassing for Steelers fans.
• royal_k

  

  "We've only heard one side." STFU...Really?? Do you actually want to here his side? Like what he has done is excusable.
• WebFire

  People like him are just idiots and likely VERY uninformed.
• BR1986FB

  Commander of Awesome;757978 wrote:SMH, this is embarrassing for Steelers fans.

  Steeler fans aside, this is embarrassing for AMERICANS. Guy is a fucking moron and if teams start targeting his knees I don't think a lot of people will lose too much sleep.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  I doubt Pat Tillman would care if they targeted his knees.
• I Am Ahab

  Rapists, adulterers, druggies and now this guy. Go Steelers!!!
  
  NOT
• Iliketurtles

  

  BR1986FB;758003 wrote:Steeler fans aside, this is embarrassing for AMERICANS. Guy is a fucking moron and if teams start targeting his knees I don't think a lot of people will lose too much sleep.

  
  This.
  
  CoA I bet Tillman is hoping someone does target his knees lol.
• thavoice

  Fucktard
• justincredible

  

  Does this guy not realize he's alienating 99.9% of his fan base with these comments? Likely not if he's dumb enough to make them in the first place.
• thavoice

  BR1986FB;757976 wrote:After his "slavery" comment the idiot should just keep his mouth shut....
  
  http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2011/05/02/rashard-mendenhall-raises-eyebrows-with-bin-laden-tweets/

  FYI..I thought it was Peterson who had the slavery comment
• Heretic

  

  justincredible;758042 wrote:Does this guy not realize he's alienating 99.9% of his fan base with these comments? Likely not if he's dumb enough to make them in the first place.

  
  Siding with Peterson on the whole "slavery" thing probably at least annoyed the fuck out of his fan base. This takes it a few steps farther. People who work in a profession where lots of blunt head trauma happens really should NEVER voice their opinions on current events...or anything more serious than what kind of jelly they like on their toast.
• Heretic

  

  thavoice;758046 wrote:FYI..I thought it was Peterson who had the slavery comment

  
  Peterson did originally have it. Mendenhall supported him. From the Steelers Bleacher Report page:
  

  On Twitter, Rashard Mendenhall supported Peterson's comments by stating, "Anyone with knowledge of the slave trade and the NFL could say that these two parallel each other."
  
  Many fans were upset with Mendenhall and reacted very negatively to his comment.
  
  People insulted him by calling him everything from overpaid to uneducated.
  
  In an attempt to clarify his comments, Mendenhall sent a series of tweets that came off as slightly condescending and didn't help matters.
  
  "If you look back and dissect what I said, I [didn't] say that the NFL was slavery, I said that they parallel each other. Look up the word parallel."
  
  "This means that they're not the same thing, but they run the same course. These paths will never cross, but they mirror each other."
  
  "I could break down how, but that would take an amount of ideology and big words that a lot of you wouldn't understand."

• BR1986FB

  thavoice;758046 wrote:FYI..I thought it was Peterson who had the slavery comment

  
  Peterson started it and then Mendenhall chimed in soon there after.
• Prescott

  Maybe, he is a member of Jeeremiah Wright's church.
• killer_ewok

  

  Stupid ass comments. Sadly, he's not the only American who feels that way. I've seen other comments on Facebook pages saying similar things. There is no other side to hear. The guy was a fucking extremist murdering fuckhead.....and I'm glad he's dead.
  
  That being said, I'll still be rooting for #34 on Sundays. I'd be willing to bet that other players in the league, maybe even one on your team, feels that way too. Fuck their opinions.....I'm rooting for their production on the field.
  
  I think teams are taking more risks on players with character issues now and it's being excused and this is just a shitty opinion, not a crime. I don't think NFL players will care enough to try to take out his knees. LOL
  
  LMAO at ahab's post....I'd say every team in the NFL has druggies (weed smokers) and adulterers on it so not sure why those were mentioned as if they're unique to the Steelers. That's absurd.
• thavoice

  OK..thanks. I didnt read of Mendenhall's support of it.
  
  Well...as season ticket holders we will boo mendenhall for his comments!
• Automatik

  

  lol...what a moron.
  
  Just another reason why I dislike Twitter. Before just a few people would hear dumbass comments like this or more...depending if a journalist got a hold of it, now every athlete has an outlet to show how stupid they really are.
• sleeper

  

  Well at least he gained the support of Al Qaeda, they are huge football fans.
• like_that

  

  Another Steelers football player evolving as a piece of shit. How shocking /sarcasm.
• september63

  

  The Pitts Post Gazette just ripped him this morning. Dan Rooney said he has no idea why Rashard would say something like this.
• killer_ewok

  

  The phone lines on Pittsburgh sports talk radio are buzzing. That's all they've been talking about on 93.7 The Fan this morning.
• BR1986FB

  He shall now be known as 'Terrible Towell Head"
• dat dude

  @R_Mendenhall: There is not an ignorant bone in my body. I just encourage you to #think

  @MarkVernallis: @R_Mendenhall How about you #think about not fumbling the #football in the #goddamn #superbowl

  LOL
• yobro08

  he is one pathetic human being