[Husker] cunningham

[Tony lambert]

Wasn't the OSU player coming off a concussion suffered in a game earlier in 
the year ? If so should he have been playing. My son was told no more 
football after his third.

Tony Lambert
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Sent: Monday, November 01, 2010 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Husker] cunningham


> While I think Ed Cunningham is far from a great analyst, I have to 
> question a few of these comments.
>
> I wasn't aware college players could be fined, just suspended or 
> dismissed.
>
> If Martin's hit was "perfectly legal" why was he suspended. The OSU player 
> he clobbered suffered a severe concussion, not really something to joke 
> about, IMO.
>
> "whose only offense was being bigger, faster, stronger, and better than 
> their competition". Really?
>
> I'd like to see this topic go away as both sides have strong opinions and 
> are not able to change the minds of the other side. But the bottom line, 
> to me is, that players are being injured, sometimes seriously. And that 
> needs to change. Our entertainment should not be predicated on others 
> suffering preventable injuries.
>
> As others have pointed out there were other helmet to helmet hits that 
> were not penalized. The one to Niles Paul in the 1st quarter of the MU 
> game comes to mind. Enforcement needs to be consistent.
>
> --
> Greg Zimmerman, UNL '75
> Overland Park, Kansas
>
> ---- Ken Oliver <ksterling at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> Paragraphs recently added to Ed Cunninghams Wikipedia entry:  (I wanted 
>> to grab this before it disappeared)
>>
>> As opposed to other analysts who announce games either standing up or 
>> sitting on a stool, Ed has recently chosen do his announcing work sitting 
>> exclusively on his high horse. Some maintain this is the only place that 
>> he is able to withstand the floodwaters of Roger Goodell's incompetence 
>> trickling their way down into the college game, others simply note his 
>> mediocre broadcasting skills, and applaud him for taking the easy route 
>> in falling in line with the hot-button topic of the day.
>>
>> Cunningham most recent holier-than-thou work includes public scoldings of 
>> both Eric Martin and Courtney Osborne, Nebraska defensive players who 
>> were not fined for their perfectly legal plays, and whose only offense 
>> was being bigger, faster, stronger, and better than their competition.
>>
>> During the week, when not announcing games from high upon his stallion, 
>> Cunningham can be found handing out blue participation ribbons at your 
>> local public school, as well as calling out all other football announcers 
>> with skills superior to his as "big meanies."
>>
>> Likes: Flowers, long walks on the beach, Downy soft clothes and real 
>> football (Soccer).
>>
>> Dislikes: Rough and tough contact and the nasty, violent game of 
>> football.
>>
>>
>>
>>  .
>>
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