Maurkice Pouncey... starting to really not like this guy...

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Ok, you ask the fans and see how much you are able to control their behavior. Pouncey is payed millions to play a game, I'm pretty sure that the people who pay him (The Rooneys) can tell him to shut his ignorant young mouth and stop pissing off their fanbase.

 

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FWIW, and not totally comparable, the NCAA has been coming down harder on college athletes' use of social media. This has led some schools, an increasing number every year, to monitor or even ban the use of it by their athletes. The overwhelming argument has been that an athlete must recognize that they are bigger than themselves on social media. Even with a personal account, they represent the team (or in this case, the school) and negative publicity on them is negative publicity on the team/school. This is a pretty unprecedented move since technically college students are legal adults, but the NCAA is getting involved and schools are noticing. In July last year, the NCAA cited UNC for failure to "adequately and consistently monitor social networking activity" by student athletes. I'd think that if this is the college trend, it's entirely feasible a pro coach could set some of the same expectations and standards for their athletes.

 

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There you go, scrap said IF he misses any more games he might be a first round bust, also that he hoped that all of the people who were pimping Pouncey were not wrong. He didn't call him a bust, he said he hopes he doesn't turn into one. If you think that it is not possible for Pouncey to turn into a bust, your wrong. There is no way to know for sure if Pouncey will ever play another game for the Steelers. Two years with injuries preventing him from playing in the superbowl one year and keeping him on the sidelines for a good deal of the next season is not enough return on investment for a first round pick. I hope he will turn out to be a probowl center that plays his entire career for Pittsburgh, but he hasn't yet.

 

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So you're 23, a couple years removed from college and working a full time job for some company. A coworker critiques your job and you're going to tell him it doesn't matter what he says because you're more popular than he is? .. or that he has no room to talk because you're rich?

It was a mistake and he didn't control his reaction. He needs to be told that and he needs to understand how it reflects on him. Personally, I love Pouncey and I'm looking forward to him anchoring this team for years to come. This was unfortunate, but he has to learn how to handle it.

 

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I'm willing to give the guy a pass, he's young, he's stupid, he said he was sorry. Case closed for now.

But I think part of outrage is that the twitters was done very soon after the Den game ended and Pouncey didn't appear to be sufficiently upset about it.

What fans don't seem to realize is that they are much, much more emotionally invested in their teams than the players are.
Many Steeler fans have been so since they young kids, they've been fans for decades, they wouldn't think of rooting for another team.

But players are different, they didn't necessarily grow up as Steeler fans, they may only be here a couple of years (and in many cases they leave when they get cut, not on their own decision), many have played for other teams or will in the future. I'm sure they don't want or like to lose, but they all have lost before and it's part of the business. And they've been trained to put the last loss behind them and focus on the next challenge.

 

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He lost his job??

 

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I never said the Rooneys couldn't tell him to shut it. And stop pissing off the fan base? Are you serious? I could care less about scum bag fans like the ones who were mouthing off to Pouncey. Tough s**t if they get pissed off. Why do they get a pass? Seems like you condone their behavior, perhaps maybe because you are such a fan? Have a news flash for you, athletes owe us NOTHING! They don't put a gun to our head and say come to our games, buy our jerseys, Fat Heads, video games, ect. You do that all by yourself. Athletes entertain us and give us something to root for, that's all the have to do. Don't like that, don't watch them. Fan behavior is getting way out of control, how many beatings took place this year at stadiums? Quite a few and severe. I'm tired of a-hole fans, maybe they should be the ones to grow up, ya think?[/quote:18opqnut]
The Rooney's own a product, and they sell it to who? Their fans. I think they may have a different opinion than you about pissing off their consumers. Of course I don't condone the fans behavior, but how can anyone possibly control what the fans say. Players, however, are payed very well by an organization that relies on the fanbase to generate revenue. Do you really believe the Steelers position on this should be "We could care less about scum bag fans like the ones who were mouthing off to Pouncey. Tough s**t if they get pissed off."
All he had to do was turn off his phone and go on about his "better than you because I'm rich" life. And quit with all of this "he's barely out of high school crap", I knew better than to act like that when I was in elementary school.

 

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I think that the correlation to the Rooneys is simply because as a paid player (read: employee) of the Steelers organization, there are expectations for player (employee) behavior, including how they portray themselves in public forums, online or in real life. I'm not sure this isn't something that might not be addressed eventually, and perhaps even by way of the personal conduct clauses in contracts. You wear the uniform, you represent the team. It's already coming up in non-professional, non-paid sports and I can't imagine that with the heat players take for their personal views online (and it's not just NFL, there's been a lot about off the cuff tweets and posts in the news this year), this won't eventually be something that's addressed even at a level beyond individual teams.

 

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The Rooney's own a product, and they sell it to who? Their fans. I think they may have a different opinion than you about pissing off their consumers. Of course I don't condone the fans behavior, but how can anyone possibly control what the fans say. Players, however, are payed very well by an organization that relies on the fanbase to generate revenue. Do you really believe the Steelers position on this should be "We could care less about scum bag fans like the ones who were mouthing off to Pouncey. Tough s**t if they get pissed off."
All he had to do was turn off his phone and go on about his "better than you because I'm rich" life. And quit with all of this "he's barely out of high school crap", I knew better than to act like that when I was in elementary school.[/quote:202r71hr]

Um, why do you keep correlating what I think with what the Rooneys think? Try to stay on topic. I DO NOT CARE ABOUT SCUM BAG FANS, I am not speaking for the Rooneys. And unless you are the type of fan to say vile things to athletes, why are you pissed off at Pounceys behavior? Why on earth do you care? Wasn't directed at you, or was it? I would imagine only losers who berate athletes would be pissed off at Pounceys words.[/quote:202r71hr]

I'm not personally pissed off about anything. What I said was he is making himself appear to be an arrogant ***hole. I don't think this will do anything but hurt the organization, it certainly won't do him or the Steelers any good. I don't even have a twitter account, nor do I say anything to athletes, vile or not. I have a question for you now. If you are discussing football with a fan of another NFL team, and Pouncey comes up, do you really want to have to say "Yeah, I know he's kind of a jerk, but he's a good center so we love him."? I know I'm sick and tired of answering for Ben's stupid behavior off the field. Again, I don't know the guy and could care less what he has to say, I just think it is foolish behavior from a young man who can't handle himself well in public. The fact that he sent out a prepared apology the next day just proves that his handlers agree with me.

 

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You guys are still talking about this???? What a bunch of losers.... J/K

 

Pouncey Tweeter Rant?

A fellow Steeler fan here in CT told me Pouncey had a Tweeter rant saying stuff like "I don't care that we lost, I got millions in the back, etc, etc." I have not seen any news on this. Any truth to the rumor?

 

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Apparently what happened was shortly after the Den loss, (like w/in a hour or so), Pouncey was on twitter promoting one of his buddies rap music or concert. Some irate Steeler fans twitted back upset that he apparently was sufficiently broken up about the lose (as they were). Pouncey responded by calling them losers and that even with the loss he was still young, rich and they were not. The media got ahold of this, and the next day Pouncey apologized.

Not sure there's much to this, really. Pouncey is young and didn't like being called out, so he struck back. Then having thought about it (or having his agent or front office guy think about it for him), decided that this probably didn't look too good, and apologized. I think this is the end of it, unless it becomes a recurring thing.

 

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It was already discussed on our board here

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1594

 

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I dont even recognize this team anymore. :-(

 

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Can teams ban twitter? It seems there would be many less problems if so

 

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He was ranting about the speaker? What did the tweeter ever do to him?

 

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Man the guys have got to be smart enough not to get into an online fight with fans. It will never end good for the player. I don't know why they insist on using that stuff anyway. Teams should ban it.

 

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**** people this twitter rant is now a week old. drop it, he apologized.

 

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I think Social Media is way out of control and makes alot of people very irresponsible for their actions more than not. Especially with the younger generation but no you cannot ban it. Imagine your place of employment telling you that you cannot work for them because you engage in Facebook, Myspace, Twitter or any other social media on your own time. Next they would be telling you what kind of car you can park in their lot. Social Media sucks but Communism is worse.

Athletes on twitter should really be careful with what they have to say. We all know what opinions are like. Throwing them out there to millions of people just isn't very smart.