Last night the Steelers and Browns squared off at Thursday night football. Both are division rivals in the AFC North. Both teams needing a victory to stay alive in the playoff race. Both teams chasing the Baltimore Ravens in their division. The Steelers came into Cleveland with a 4 game winning streak. While the Browns broke a long losing streak last Sunday. You know both teams don’t like each other in this heated rivalry. Whoever won this game, it would be a well earned fought out victory, no matter what the score was. Browns would prevail 21-7 in a game that had the hard hitting. That had the injuries piling up with even an ejection. Concussions. At the end of the game it turned crazy in one of the wildest brawls in NFL football history.

With about 20 ticks left on the clock, the Steelers found themselves in third and long down by two touchdowns. Perhaps conceding at this time would have been the better idea to what takes place. Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolf dropped back to pass. He throws the ball and then is brought down by Cleveland’s best defensive player, Myles Garrett. On the ground Mason Rudolf thinks it is a late hit as he got the pass off which was completed only a minimum gain. Mason retaliates as he dug his fingers under Myles’ helmet. Maybe to try to rip the helmet off his head. Perhaps just tugging on it like a face mask grab. This is when Myles Garrett erupts as he rips off Mason Rudolph’s helmet and then used the helmet as a weapon on Mason’s head.

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Eventually Steelers linemen are able to knock Myles Garrett down. Maurkice Pouncey, Steelers lineman, gets a few punches in and then proceeds to kick Myles when he is on the ground. As any offensive lineman would do to protect his quarterback.

Then Cleveland Browns’ Larry Ogunjobi shoves Mason Rudolf to the ground as Mason has no helmet on and is trying to fight back with his head ringing. Just imagine. Eventually they were able to break it up. The game still had eight seconds left. Ejections immediately happened.

Myles Garrett will be suspended for the rest of the year. He will face fines and the suspension which may go into 2020. Don’t feel bad for him because this is not his first rodeo. He punched a Titan the very first week. The Jets back up quarterback ,he broke his leg and he is out for the season.

Larry Ogunjobi will get one game for his part in shoving Mason Rudolf to the ground. Steelers’ Maurkice Pouncey for the Steelers will get three games for kicking and punching Myles Garrett. Other suspensions will be coming as well including for Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolf.

Steelers quarterbacks continue to take the punishment this year. Big Ben Roethlisberger, who was knocked out of the game early this season. He is out the rest of the year. Then Mason Rudolf who was knocked into Tomorrow Land in a game early in the season. The cart did not work so they had to carry Mason off the field as he was concussed and they took his face mask off.

He looked like he did not know where he was. Then yesterday to get whacked in the head with a helmet. Some say they should bring assault charges on Myles Garrett who apologized later on for losing his cool. If Mason Rudolf has problems later in life, we know these two hits were the cause.

Last night’s game reminded me of a hockey brawl. The NHL game with Marty McSorley taking out Donald Brashear with his stick. Cracking him on the side of the head from behind.

This was definitely a game that did get out of hand. Even before that brawl, a few plays that were helmet to helmet were just jarring hits. Not sure either team is going to make the playoffs. I know the Steelers were hot coming in winning four in a row. I just don’t think they have that type of offense to get themselves a wild card. The Browns have been on life support most of the year. They came to life last Sunday breaking a long losing streak. The Browns would have to run the table to snag a wild card. Without their best defensive guy, their chances decreased. It would have been hard even if that brawl did not occur. This could affect Mason Rudolf’s play the rest of the way as a hit to the head in any sport or assault, whatever you want to call it, is hard to come back from.

These incidents don’t happen very often to this level of crazy. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt or even killed which would have been tragic for the game of Football. At times I think these coaches have a responsibility to discipline their own guys and clean up the game. Both coaches yesterday are idiots. I would not blame them for that incident because it happened in the heat of the moment. It’s a violent game. Players are angered, amped up, programmed and wired for violence. What I mean by violence is the appropriate, hitting, blocking, tackling and doing them by the rules of the game, not bringing wrestling to the gridiron like the XFL.

But both these coaches Tomlin and Kitchens are not the brightest in the league. Mike Tomlin with the Steelers had a problem a few years back about what they should do for the National Anthem. Freddie Kitchens runs a team that is football stupid with penalties. Remember the very first game of the season, 18 penalties alone on his team. Been going on all year. The NFL better do a good job and bring justice to the players that did wrong, and all of them including Pittsburgh quarterback. Plus get a guy like Myles Garrett some professional help for being a raging maniac. In real life this guy would be behind bars for the rest of his life like the animal he is.