A definition of prejudice is: “unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes.”
Please note the following excerpts from 3downation, which they adopted from an interview (with, possibly Vanstone):
“I think a dirty player, malicious intent is a little too far, especially for me — I’m not that kind of person, I’m not that kind of player. I don’t see value — you don’t gain anything from playing dirty. I think that was too far, a little egregious. Not at all did I mean to try to hurt him or intend to hit him in the head. I genuinely believed I hit him in his chest,” Brown said.
“If that’s how he feels, it’s very clear he doesn’t know me. When a president of a team is calling a player dirty, naturally you influence the emotions of some people. He can’t control what happens. I think it’s really dangerous when you say things like that, especially in the media. We’ll see what Saturday holds for us.”
Corey Mace said: “Miles is not a dirty player, he plays a physical game, though. I know his intention is never to hurt anybody. I hope Zach’s good. Being a big boy trying to control your body, that ain’t easy."
“I haven’t spoken to Zach, I saw he was taken out for precautionary reasons. I’m hoping that precautionary means there’s nothing wrong with him and that he’s OK. I’ve heard he’s taking first-team reps this week, I’m glad he’s back on the field,” Brown said.
“In this situation, the safest thing to do was to turn my head to avoid a head-to-head collision. You can see on film that I did pull up, I did not follow through with the hit. I know how strong I am, I didn’t feel like I gave him much power. I felt like I reduced as much power as I could.”
“In situations like this, I don’t know if there is any possibility that a 300-pound man is going to stop within two feet of a person running full speed. It’s quite difficult when you’re running full speed to stop on a dime. That’s not something that’s physically possible for a lot of men my size. It’s not something that’s possible for me,” Brown said.
“As I was closing in on him, I was directly in line with him and I was so close that I knew I was going to make contact with him but I also knew I wasn’t going to get the sack. When I realized that, I turned my head away from him to try to avoid head-to-head contact and inadvertently made contact with his face mask, which warranted a penalty.”
“You could see me throw my hands away from him, I jumped over and rolled, I thought that was the safest way to finish that play, it obviously was not. I turned my head away from him so I didn’t hit him in the head, it’s a football play, sometimes it happens,” Brown said.
“The idea behind it is to keep quarterbacks safe, that’s something definitely I can get behind. While hard you have to find a way,” Mace said. “Those are the rules right now and we gotta abide by them.”
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