Texans' Travis Johnson should be Suspended for Actions and Comments
 The Miami Dolphins’ Trent Green sustained a Grade Three concussion on Sunday when trying to block the Houston Texans’ Travis Johnson on a busted end around play in which Miami Dolphins rookie receiver, Ted Ginn Jr fumbled the ball and then started to run backwards across the field in the opposite direction. Green’s head hit and whipped backwards off of Johnson’s knee.
After the play had been whistled dead, Johnson went back over to a limp, and unconscious Green and shouted at him while violently pointing down at him. He then walked over Green and walked away. Johnson was called for taunting by the officiating crew.
Green lay completely unconscious on the field for four or five minutes and then was carted off the field after being securely fastened to a stretcher.
After the game, Travis Johnson had some rather severe comments directed at Trent Green.
“It was a malicious hit,” Johnson said. “It was uncalled for. He's like the scarecrow. He wants to get courage while I wasn't looking and hit me in my knee instead of trying to hit me in my head. God don't like ugly, you know what I mean?”
“My knee ain't never hurt like it hurt today,” Johnson said. “If you want to hit me, hit me in my head, hit me in my chest, don't hit me in my knee. I'm trying to eat just like everybody else. So, to hit me like that, that showed me what type of man he was.”
First of all, Mr. Johnson, by no means was this a “malicious” hit. The only things that one could describe as malicious on this play were your disgusting actions after the play was over. Every week quarterbacks try and make blocks for their teammates and every single week it is below the waste. Trent Green was just trying to trip your fat ass up so you wouldn’t be able to tackle Ginn Jr. Unfortunately for Green, your basketball-sized knee clocked him in the head. The block was not uncalled for, it was a 37-year-old quarterback playing smash mouth football and giving 110% worth of effort on a play that had already lost about 15 yards. That’s not uncalled for Mr. Johnson, that’s perseverance.
Just a little advice to you, don’t try and make allusions to classics like The Wizard of Oz because you just make a bigger fool of yourself in doing so.
“My knee ain’t never hurt like it hurt today.” Need I say more about this quote? How about you find your heart and have some concern for Trent Green’s head before you start whining about your slightly bruised knee.
Maybe that block showed you something about Trent Green, but everyone else in the world saw something else. He’s a fighter, a fighter until the very end, and will never give up. He’s a complete class-act. These are all things that have never and will never be attributed to your name.
Having addressed my above comments to Travis Johnson, I’d like to speak to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell now.
Mr. Commissioner, if you are really trying to rid of punks and thugs in this league as you have shown in suspending the Titans’ Pacman Jones, and Atlanta’s Michael Vick, please strongly consider suspending the Texans’ Travis Johnson.
It takes a man with a stone heart to make the comments Johnson did, and act the way he did on the field after that play. This is not how the NFL is to be played, and this is not what people want to watch. How dare he attack Trent Green after what happened.
I strongly believe that Johnson should be suspended for at least one game and sustain a proper fine. He is a classless man who needs a week to think about his abhorrent actions and words.
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