Victor Cruz Hit Called Dirty, Could Bring Fine For Ryan Clark

The ball was zipping right towards Cruz and Ryan was reacting to the ball and hit Cruz just as he expected the ball to get to him. I doubt he realized another Steeler was making a failed attempt to intercept the ball and Ryan's hit was as legal as they come!

It doesn't matter whether he would've caught the ball, the hit would've been just as hard and just as vicious with or without the hit.

the iidiot that wrote this must be a giants fan…hit was clean and fair hit.. the call was blow to the head… head was only hit by the ground…. the injury report from sideline said brused ribs.. from a blow to the head?

football as we know it is coming to an end. As the ALS and brain injuries increase its going to change. The kick off was just step one….in 20 years it will be professional flag football.

The hit was completely clean just like the interference call that got them that close was a ghost call. Even the announcers said that they were both questionable calls.
So, why should the league fine someone for a hit that shouldn't have even been flagged?

The Steelers are coached to bend the rules, but not break them. They're a dirty team and I wish them nothing but failure. Football is dangerous enough. The Steelers are a classless team and I wouldn't want to have to root for them.

he hit him in the chest for god sake and stopped him from catching a ball. is this not what we teach children to in pop warner football? a textbook hit. what is the problem? put a skirt in cruz.

RYAN CLARK is a rough & tough player! He is known for 'vicious hits' all around the AFC North. Ask Willis McGahee about him!

waa, waa, waa

Here, I have a box of tissues for cruz and the NFL.

Classless team eh ??? Seems to me they are the only team with any class .. Rather than use rooms that hurricane victims needed they opted to fly in on game day, not take a room and after the game fly back out .. So now WHO'S GOT NO CLASS???? The hit was clean, poor little cruz fall down go boom, bump his head, gets up ~ it hurts mommy .. Seems to me the Steelers have a player with a much more serious injury .. where is the new report on that hit ?????? The Steelers are coached to play football with adults on a professional field .. not flag football with 8 year olds .. GROW UP AND PLAY BALL !!!!!!!!!!!

Joel-we don't need your help in rooting for the Steelers! 6 Super Bowl rings without you! Maybe you should be a Giants fan. The refs were surely on their side yesterday so with your help, maybe they might catch the rule benders.

after reading this article (after watching the game)….the only conclusion I can come up with, shutdown corner is to football what cnn is to news……………………they report what they are told(or paid) to report. shut down corner should follow the advice of their name…………………………..and shut down and shut up!

Horrible article. The referee also said, "After the play" when the ball was in mid-air. Go write for tennis. Ike Taylor touched the ball first, "Lamont, you big dummy."

the hit on cruz was clean…..the block in the back against miller missed…..had to use a challenge to spot the ball…the refs tried to give the giants a sympathy win, but it became to obvious so they aborted the idea.

and how could I forget……the ghost call for 41 yards that set-up the shot to the ribs penalty…….very poor effort by the refs.if players can be fined, what about fining the refs for clearly blowing a call…..they just got caught up in the hurricane sandy fiasco…….i feel sorry for the people effected by the storm but you cant let that effect your job as a ref in the nfl.

The Giants as a team have been such p–sies this week, crying about how the Steelers hold, how their corners hold, how they cheat. And they got their a–es beat yesterday and all we hear about is Cruz, Cruz Cruz. Cruz was attempting to catch a TD in the endzone and Clark nailed him, not in the head, but a clean smack down. Tell Cruz to put on about 30 lbs and his tiny ass won't have to worry about getting hit again.

CRUUUUUUUUUUUZZZZ! He can eat his Chunky soup through a straw!

They seem to change the rule weekly. First, you couldn't hit in the head, then you couldn't hit below the knees, now you can't hit in the chest either.

Phil Simms (not exactly an unbiased source) called it a clean hit. This was shoulder to shoulder on a WR the exact second he would have caught the ball had Ike Taylor not been there. So if you want to blame someone you blame Manning for throwing it to a defenseless WR.

This guy is on crack. That was a good hit. The announcers even said it was the wrong call. BAD call. That was the worst half of officiating I have ever seen. It was like they felt sorry for NY due to the storm and were trying to give the game to the giants.

I am not a Steeler or Giant fan but I watched the game and saw the hit. It is called FOOTBALL. I saw no problem, looked like a legal hit to me.

Spoken like a true Rams fan. Oh, I forgot, LA doesn't have a team. They were smart enough to move out of CA. So, you don't even have someone to root for. Jealousy will get you nowhere.

Suzanne Kersey –PULEASE! Steelers did not stay in NY because they are pussys! They were afraid of post-storm NYC just like the whining Miami Heat who did not want to come. There excuse makes them look even worse since they are trying to get a pat on the back for their girly move!

I have Victor Cruz on my fantasy team, but the hit was fair. He was hitting him hard to make him drop the ball if he caught it to DROP it. The idiots that put posts against the hit have never played football you cant see great out of a helmet. Ryan porbably didn't even see if the pass was knocked down.

You are an idiot. The Steelers are one of the best teams in the NFL from the top to the bottom. Classless my a$$. Some people should really get more info on things before opening there mouths. Go Steelers!!!!!

Fining the Refs for blowing a call is genuis.

As a Browns fan it pains me to side with a Steeler, but this hit was legal. If you don't want hit don't play football.

waaaaa cry me a river…….it's football, Clark is an excellent player!

The ref said a helmet to helmet hit but no where close

Joel, If you don't have anything meaningful to add, just don't speak. Wait, it says you are going to law school, never mind, I understand.

clean hit. it wasnt too late after the play, His head was NOT targeted. Sometimes things like that happen in a fast-paced violent game like football. The way the game was being called at that point I though for sure the refs were in the giants back pocket. Made me turn against the Giants in a big way as I detest the Steelers.

the pass interference cvall right before that was garbage too. it was good defense, the Giant player just did his typical 9.0 dive to try to draw the call. But, alas, justice was served and Pits won.

One more thing, the call for the "blindside" block was complete crap, too. It's called football people, not soccer, for chrissakes, let the players play a little bit. If you take all the hitting out of the game I might as well go watch baseball.

did you people watch the game because this article is wrong! he wasn't flagged for a hit to the head. he was penalized for unnecessary roughness. do you really think he was simply trying to tackle him? that dude was trying to hurt Cruz. do you teach your pee wee players to blind side an unsuspecting player? if that was so legal, then why aren't receivers getting popped like that all over the place? c'mon now!

Cruz is always taunting the visiting crowd and team with his salsa dance. I think he's arogunt and the hit was clean. DANCE NOW VICTOR!

Vagasil is on isle 7 dude.

The Shutdown Corner comment is totally ridiculous. Clark's intention was to dislodge the ball from a receiver that was possibly going to catch a TD pass. When the ball doesn't make it to him, he can just stop and say "hold up." A lot of people don't take into consideration that these men play a game where split decision are made on each play. If Shutdown's writer really thinks that as Clark was playing defense he was thinking, "who can I hit and really hurt bad" and not "gotta stop them from catching the pass for a touchdown" then he needs to switch the channel and watch the Home Shopping Network!