The way the NFC Championship Game ended could barely have been worse for Jay Cutler. His team finally got the ball moving on offense and rallied to a closer, valiant loss but only after he was forced to leave the game with injuries. That's the sort of scenario that gets fans thinking about burning Cutler's jersey.
That picture, from @brianvanarsdale, should tell us something about the reaction to Cutler's terrible day. I hope it's not the only thing we remember about Cutler's day, though — and I hope we learn something from it.
Searching for Cutler's name and "bitch" on Twitter finds a lot of people unimpressed with Cutler's toughness; searching Cutler and girl finds more folks lashing out.
This is the ugly side of football, the "ultimate man's sport": toughness is determined by people who are sitting on couches with laptops and iPads, and graded on a scale from man to woman that seems to have been codified in 1957 and untouched through the women's rights movement. And yet no one knows what's actually wrong with Cutler, or what he might have been risking by returning to the game.
We might not learn about that, either, thanks to the NFL's notoriously secretive injury culture, which guards information about maladies like state secrets, lest players be seen as less tough or valuable or teams be seen as heartless machines. Could Cutler, who reportedly left with a knee injury, have also sustained a concussion? Could his knee injury be worse than anyone knows?
We as fans tend to lionize athletes who exhibit "toughness" above and beyond their peers despite having little clue what those players go through to play. Yes, players ripped Cutler today, but the Bears have had his back, with Cutler saying he wanted to keep playing but the team wouldn't let him.
It's probably already too late for Cutler's reputation on this day; things calcify pretty quickly when Caleb Hanie plays well while you sit on the sidelines. But in the days and weeks to come, I hope that we take some time to figure out what was wrong with Jay Cutler today — and reflect on whether we were wrong to judge him as harshly or as quickly as we did.
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Burning Palms (2011) New Movie Trailer: Latest & Upcoming Movies
Plot
The Green Eyed Monster
Dedra Davenport (Rosamund Pike) meets the 14 year old daughter (Emily Meade) of her fiance (Dylan McDermott) for the very first time. However, she is soon disturbed by how unhealthy and bordering on incestuous the relationship between the two is.
This Little Piggy
Ginny Bai (Jamie Chung) agrees to participate in a repulsive sex act with her boyfriend Chad Bower (Robert Hoffman). Soon after she begins to slowly lose her mind when she cannot seem to get rid of an odd smell from her finger.
Buyer’s Remorse
A rich and well recognized West Hollywood gay couple (Peter Macdissi and Anson Mount) decide to adopt a 7 year old African girl (Tiara McKinney). They prove to be mentally unprepared for the challenges and risks involved in parenthood, especially so, as their adopted daughter is a decided mute who refuses to speak to them.
Kangaroo Court
A nanny (Lake Bell) for a group of neglected children comes to find some dangerous secrets about the live- in staff at their mansion home.
Maneater
An unidentified man (Nick Stahl) brakes into the apartment of meek woman Sarah Cotton (Zoe Saldana), whom he proceeds to rape. Sometime later she finds the man’s wallet and is able to track him down. Rather than seek justice or revenge the woman invites him on a date, then back to her apartment. Once there the man becomes suspicious of her motives, and is shocked when she begs him to rape her again, though he does as she asks. As he begins to leave Sarah cries and begs him to stay, but he leaves all the same.
Trailer:
The Green Eyed Monster
Dedra Davenport (Rosamund Pike) meets the 14 year old daughter (Emily Meade) of her fiance (Dylan McDermott) for the very first time. However, she is soon disturbed by how unhealthy and bordering on incestuous the relationship between the two is.
This Little Piggy
Ginny Bai (Jamie Chung) agrees to participate in a repulsive sex act with her boyfriend Chad Bower (Robert Hoffman). Soon after she begins to slowly lose her mind when she cannot seem to get rid of an odd smell from her finger.
Buyer’s Remorse
A rich and well recognized West Hollywood gay couple (Peter Macdissi and Anson Mount) decide to adopt a 7 year old African girl (Tiara McKinney). They prove to be mentally unprepared for the challenges and risks involved in parenthood, especially so, as their adopted daughter is a decided mute who refuses to speak to them.
Kangaroo Court
A nanny (Lake Bell) for a group of neglected children comes to find some dangerous secrets about the live- in staff at their mansion home.
Maneater
An unidentified man (Nick Stahl) brakes into the apartment of meek woman Sarah Cotton (Zoe Saldana), whom he proceeds to rape. Sometime later she finds the man’s wallet and is able to track him down. Rather than seek justice or revenge the woman invites him on a date, then back to her apartment. Once there the man becomes suspicious of her motives, and is shocked when she begs him to rape her again, though he does as she asks. As he begins to leave Sarah cries and begs him to stay, but he leaves all the same.
| Movie Name | Burning Palms (2011) |
| Director | Christopher B. Landon |
| Writer | Christopher B. Landon |
| Producer | Oren Segal Steven Prince Jason Hewitt Tyler Thompson Vince Morella Naz Jafri |
| Release Date | January 14, 2011 |
| Starring | Zoe Saldana Dylan McDermott Paz Vega Rosamund Pike Lake Bell Nick Stahl Shannen Doherty Adriana Barraza Colleen Camp Jamie Chung Robert Hoffman Peter Macdissi Emily Meade Anson Mount Austin Williams Tom Wright |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Studio | New Films International |
| Distributedby | Films In Motion |
| MPAA Rating |
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