Leave it to the guy with the long hair for calling out the NFL for being pansies. Troy Polamalu has had it with your damn fines against his teammates already and he’s not going to take it anymore.

“I think regarding the evolution of football, it’s becoming more and more flag football, two-hand touch,” Polamalu said. “We’ve really lost the essence of what real American football is about. I think it’s probably all about money. They’re not really concerned about safety.” [...]

Polamalu said that football’s essence is being taken away with the NFL’s heavy-handed penalties, saying football “just loses so much of its essence when it becomes like a pansy game.” [...]

“When you see guys like Dick Butkus, the Ronnie Lotts, the Jack Tatums, these guys really went after people,” Polamalu told reporters. “Now, they couldn’t survive in this type of game. They wouldn’t have enough money. They’d be paying fines all the time and they’d be suspended for a year after they do it two games in a row. It’s kind of ridiculous.”

It is ridiculous. Dick Butkus would have snuck up behind you in the locker room with a leather strap and an electric razor and shaved that damn Donna Summer haircut of yours. And the razor wouldn’t even be plugged into the wall. It would be powered by Dick’s hate of Samoans.

[That one sports media empire]