Recently, some goodwill was extended between the Cleveland Browns and Pittsburgh Steelers. First, Mike Tomlin said he saw his team’s role in the violent altercation at the end of the Thursday Night Football game a week ago. Next, Mason Garrett seemed to offer some forgiveness towards Myles Garrett for hitting him in the head with his own helmet.
However, the situation has taken an ugly turn again. This is according to an Adam Schefter tweet on Thursday.
Mason Rudolph’s attorney, Timothy M. Younger, now has responded to Myles Garrett’s accusations: pic.twitter.com/aQj5FxW2cq
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) November 21, 2019
Notably, Rudolph is saying that Garrett is falsely asserting that a racial slur was used in order to mitigate his suspension.
While it was probably naive to believe this situation was coming to a nice conclusion, this is a surprising turn of events. Furthermore, the Browns and Steelers will probably never make the best of allies. The two franchises have had notorious battles like since the infamous Turkey Jones slam on Terry Bradshaw before a lot of us were born. Who remembers this?
Turkey Jones on Bradshaw pic.twitter.com/FcbJnrBBjB
— #1 Overall (@Chuck__Loads) November 15, 2019
Right now, this is one of the biggest stories of the 2019 NFL season. Unfortunately, it has little to do with on-field excellence of a particular player and is a negative storyline.
As time moves ahead, the NFL will likely rule swiftly and harsh on Garrett for this. In the meantime, his team of agents and lawyers will do their best to make their client look not at-fault. It’s just the nature of the business when there are dollars at stake.
Still, it’s hard to believe that anything can justify what Garrett did. Moreover, the rest of us will probably never learn if a racial slur was used by the Pittsburgh Steelers’ quarterback in the waning moments of that game.
Day by day, a new angle to this storyline seems to come out. We will continue to keep you updated on this situation as it develops. For now it seems we are far from any conclusion or final chapter.
