Bama player appeared to hit woman as he left the field…

[volfan102455]

From the article, listen to the SEC Office: "This is why we have these rules," an SEC official told ESPN on Wednesday. "It was a great scene, but it's also a recipe for disaster when you have emotional players walking off the field and fans running around by them and celebrating."

So the SEC is blaming TN for Bama's Jermaine Burton punching a female fan. Ridiculous.

Alabama investigating claim WR Burton hit fan

So we finally rush the field after all these years - after watching many other teams do that this year and in prior years - and now it is a problem because it is Tennessee?!?!?

The situation with the Bama player aside, there now seems to be a concerted effort to put Tennessee in a bad light. The entire ending of that game was the most exciting thing for college football in a long time.

 

[VolDaddy61]

"How was she dressed? Had she been drinking?"

#SameEnergy

That's a false equivalency. Do better.

 

[txbo]

She didn't say if she had any injuries. I'll assume not. I'm sure it would be all over tweeter toc is she did.

 

[VolDaddy61]

No. No we wouldn't be. Just because she violated conference policy and did NOTHING ILLEGAL doesn't mean a male collegiate athlete can touch her, let alone violently. What the hell is wrong with some of you?

She should not have been on the field. He should have not put His hands on Her. They were both wrong.

 

[DaddyChad]

No, you should quit because you're embarrassing yourself.....

I promise you the only one embarrassing themselves in that conversation is you. There is zero reasons to defend, excuse, or diminish the actions of this POS thug. The girl posed absolutely zero threat to POS, there was no call for him to strike her whatsoever period.

 

[wesley21]

So from some of y’all’s view on this. He should have just started hitting people as he’s walking off the field because they shouldn’t have been there ?

 

[WilcoVolsFan]

He's going to say that when she ran toward him holding her phone in his face while walking through thousands of hostile fans, and he felt threatened and defended himself.

She did nothing of the sort in the video. You are completely full of $hit.

In fact, not only does this much smaller girl move out of the way to avoid him, but Burton turns and reaches back to hit her in the head after she's already moved past him.

 

[VolDaddy61]

Yeah, her and what,

On the field with at least 60000 other people? Put down the crack pipe or moonshine or glue bro. GMAFB!

His behavior is NOT acceptable and THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR IT

Holy ****ing ****

She should not have been on the field. He should not have put His hands on Her. They were both wrong. His behavior wasn't acceptable, and her's wasn't either.

 

[DaddyChad]

She should not have been on the field. He should have not put His hands on Her. They were both wrong.

They were both wrong. The two wrongs weren’t close to equivalent.

 

[VolDaddy61]

If she wasn't at the party at 2am she never would have gotten assaulted.

That statement is just as bad as yours.

That's a false equivalency. Do better.

 

[N.ohio vol]

She should not have been on the field. He should not have put His hands on Her. They were both wrong. His behavior wasn't acceptable, and her's wasn't either.

Why wouldn't you just walk by her like any other grown ass man would of done?

 

['Boro-vol]

If She wasn't on the field, not being accountable, it never would have happened.

“If she wasn’t wearing that tight mini-skirt….”

Garbage take.

 

[Sudden Impact]

She should not have been on the field. He should not have put His hands on Her. They were both wrong. His behavior wasn't acceptable, and her's wasn't either.

So that is how you justify your stupid statement of giving him a pass. Sometime speeders get caught even though the others were driving just as fast.

 

[SemperFiDawg]

Few observations from this story:

1. Burton was wrong, no qualifiers needed. You don't put your hands on women (or anyone for that matter) unless you are defending yourself
2. The video does not make clear the severity. Her reaction makes it seem bad. His nonchalant way of doing it makes it seem not as bad. The only thing we have is a blurry video showing he made some form of contact with her face and the victim herself saying she was slapped across the face. Anybody that can form a super clear opinion beyond that is reaching.
3. Two things can be true at once. Fans "shouldn't" be on the field for this very reason, and I'm sure there are many things that happened at the hands of Volunteers that night that we aren't proud of. What's also true is Burton is 100% responsible for his own actions, and he put his hands on a woman.
4. The McCullough reference is interesting. To what degree are we looking at this one differently because the victim is a male and the perp is a UT player? Without video, it's really hard to make a judgement here one way or another.
5. Another interesting comparison is fans that run onto the field in the middle of the game. Seems like players have the green light to lay them out if they want (look what Bob Wagner did two weeks ago to one such fan). Do we see these instances differently when the fan is a woman? Would we be OK with Wagner taking the exact same action against a woman?
6. The second video of Burton doesn't really show anything definitive and shouldn't really be used as evidence to bolster or detract from the claim made from the woman.

PB's final thoughts. Don't hit people, and while you're at it, stop grouping people (teams, fans, etc.) based on their worst offenders. We have some deplorables on our side too. Go Vols for the biggest win in years, and Congrats to the Tide for being the standard during that same time. GBO.

There's some pics out there that are still captures that have been enhanced. He turned her head with that strike. She was clearly no threat to him and was not even focused on him. She was essentially past him when he hit her. It was a sucker punch plain and simple and completely thuggish. It also appears that she was possible injured in that she appears to be holding/guarding the back of her neck with he right hand after the strike.

 

[GAVol]

She should not have been on the field. He should have not put His hands on Her. They were both wrong.

Good luck using that as a defense for hitting a woman on camera.

 

[loggervol]

But we are classless because their buses were being flipped off as they left.

Yeah but this isn’t classless, it’s criminal.

 

[VolDaddy61]

So that is how you justify your stupid statement of giving him a pass. Sometime speeders get caught even though the others were driving just as fast.

Facts don't need to be justified, but stupid opinions do.

 

[VolDaddy61]

Good luck using that as a defense for hitting a woman on camera.

I don't hit Women on, or off camera.

 

[WilcoVolsFan]

She should not have been on the field. He should not have put His hands on Her. They were both wrong. His behavior wasn't acceptable, and her's wasn't either.

This you?

That's a false equivalency. Do better.

 

[WestTennesseeVol]

I honestly cannot believe we have real people suggesting that it was somehow her fault for getting hit because she was rushing the field.

Probably some gumps trying to stir the pot.

 

[Halph66]

Gosh they do look scary

Whip me, beat me, make me write bad checks.

 

[WilcoVolsFan]

I don't hit Women on, or off camera*.

* But I defend the players that do on message boards

 

[GAVol]

I don't hit Women on, or off camera.

Then you're in the clear . . . The guy I was clearly talking about probably has some explaining to do. Although, I don't really think the DA would want to touch this.

 

[WilcoVolsFan]

No, you should quit because you're embarrassing yourself.....

 

[DaddyChad]

So from some of y’all’s view on this. He should have just started hitting people as he’s walking off the field because they shouldn’t have been there ?

Well of course, he felt threatened. Felt so threatened by that clumsy ass chick that was preoccupied on her phone. She was obviously calling in a nuclear strike on Bama.