Courtland Finnegan: What They Don’t Tell You About the Tennesse Titan

May 21, 2011   ·   Chase Summers   ·   Jump to comments

Last season in Reliant stadium one of the NFL's most embarrassing moments happened. Courtland Finnegan and Andre Johnson threw punches on he field. Both were ejected and fined. Because of this fight Courtland Finnegan got labeled "dirty", while Andre Johnson was praised and told what a good person he was. By the way Andre Johnson threw the first punch.
While Finnegan is not innocent I feel that this label has gone too far. I will admit that he has a tendency to play rougher than he should and sometimes be dirty, but he is a great player and other great dirty players get nowhere near this treatment. Ray Lewis, James Harrison, and Hines Ward gets labeled tough or aggressive.
Why should Finnegan be a target?
 I feel the fight was a huge issue in this label for Finnegan. Before this fight Finnegan was known as a dirty player, not a real standout nothing to offensive, but relatively dirty. Andre Johnson was just known as a great player.
So Finnegan Ja...

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