Last week I passed off the TOTW duties to Beeze being he’s more qualified to speak on college football than I am, I live in SEC country and couldn’t give two shits about it and from the reaction he got over his post it appears all of you feel the same way I do about the BCS and their decisions. At any rate it’s a new week and that means a new Tool or in this case two Tools.  B.O.B. tossed out what I’d been thinking were good candidates in James Harrison and Sidney Crosby, it’s only by coincidence that both of these Tools are on Pittsburgh teams, two teams which are near the top of my most hated list. Let’s start with Harrison…

Everyone knows by now about Harrison cleaning Colt McCoy’s clock last Thursday, this, just another hit in a long line of head shots Harrison has delivered over the last couple of seasons. To date Harrison has accumulated over $100k in fines from the league’s front office but this time he earned himself a suspension. I honestly thought he’d lose the rest of the season and some cash, not just one game, and here’s why: Harrison had more than enough time to go for a body shot and McCoy was clearly in the process of throwing the ball when he was moving out of the pocket, but instead of just grabbing him around the waste for the takedown Harrison put his head down and delivered a blow to McCoy’s chin sending the Brown’s QB to La La Land.

There’s been chatter by some that players need to be taught again how to deliver tackles to fall into line with the new rules implemented by the NFL, I have a hard time with that. Grown men playing a game and being handed amended rules shouldn’t need schooling in the delivery of a tackle, that just sounds ridiculous. You can’t tell me Harrison doesn’t know what he’s doing, in the last two seasons he’s had the chance to clean up what he does but he hasn’t’ demonstrated to the league that’s the case. What’s the next line of punishment for Harrison, 3 games, or 5, maybe 10? The league probably never thought it would end up having to dole out this many fines to one man but now that they’re in that position where do they go from here? Hitting this tool in the wallet hasn’t worked, maybe losing a whole season is what the doctor ordered, it’ll give him the time needed to rethink how he’ll go about stopping the opposition in the future, but in the meantime he gets to split the Golden Plunger with another Tool from Pittsburgh.

Now onto Crosby…this is the guy I hate the most in hockey, Malkin and the Pens as a whole are a close second. I guess what really burned my ass was last season when Crosby got his concussion and Mario Lemieux came out crying about how his little darling was targeted, I had to laugh as Lemieux went on and on about cheap shot artists when at the time he had the biggest villain in Matt Cooke. You see, they talk a good game in Pittsburgh but they sure can’t take what they dish out. Crosby has more than on one occasion earned the hits he has received, same with Cooke who has gone after plenty of guys and  possibly has ended the career of Marc Savard who has only played about 35 games in the last two seasons, he’s currently out for season. I’ll give you a few examples on how Crosby and the rest of his mates play the game; you tell me if Lemieux has any argument.

                                                               This was just 3 weeks ago, Crosby elbowing Nick Foligno.

                                                                                              Crosby slewfooting Ryan Callahan.

Don Cherry showing numerous cheap shots by Matt Cooke. It’s funny that we never heard Mario complaining publicly about his own guys hurting other players.

Have no sympathy for Sidney Crosby, what he is starting to get is a taste of his own medicine, same as Cooke. If you remember Hotch’s post a few weeks back where he highlighted Evander Kane then of the Atlanta Thrasher’s knocking Cooke out following a previous game where Cooke threw a cheap shot on Kane, that my friend was a thing of beauty! In situations like that you don’t forget who it was, you just wait for your opportunity to dish out the deserved retaliation. For guys like Crosby, the prima donna superstars and there really is only a select few, they expect teammates to come to their rescue regardless if they instigate the trouble or not. Most times an opponent will take all comer’s but in Crosby’s case he’s finally reaping what he’s sewn and that’s a reputation for throwing elbows, diving to get calls, slewfooting and whatever else he can do when he thinks a referee isn’t looking. There are a lot of players that seem to have had enough of the shit coming out of Pittsburgh, I know the Bruins are tired of their act and they’ve demonstrated in the last 4 or 5 meetings they won’t take any shit from Crosby, Cooke or Malkin any longer, and if they choose to go after a goalie or cheap shot a guy from behind you can expect a special delivery from Shawn Thornton or Adam McQuaid!.

Until that time comes the best I’ve got to give Ms. Sindy, Cooke and Malkin is a share of the Golden Plunger right in the chicklets!