James Harrison does more damage to Steelers' image

The Pittsburgh Steelers are a sexual assault, drunk driving, bin Laden-loving, gun-toting, head hunters in battle, gay-bashing, to point to keeping thugs. And most of that was just in the last few months.

Some of these allegations and is just one interpretation. And it is certainly not a statement about gun control, but only the image.

The Steelers image that the gold standard of justice in the NFL has always been the myth anyway.

But with the arrest of Hines Ward for alleged DUI, Rashard Mendenhall tweets about the U.S. side do not hear Osama bin Laden's history and Ben Roethlisberger persistent bad boy up, things changed. Now, after James Harrison cover story in the next issue of the Journal of the men, he just added a new image for the Steelers. They discussed, danced on, stepped on, just about every part of the stereotype of athletes behaving badly. It crowns with cover photo of Harrison.

Imagine what NFL commissioner Roger Goodell must have felt on Wednesday morning when he saw Harrison, the guy he was as an example of play dirty on the cover of a magazine, his arms crossed over his chest, holding a pistol in each hand, under the title "Confessions of a Hitman NFL."

Highlights in the article include Harrison Goodell calling a devil, a thief, a dictator and a puppet, saying: "If this man was on fire and I had to (urinate) to put out, I would not do it . I hate him and will never respect it. "

And that about one-quarter own Harrison, Roethlisberger, who threw interceptions important in the Super Bowl, "Hey, at least one jet to pick up on their side of the field instead of asking the D to get you out again.

"Either hand the ball and stop trying to act like Peyton Manning. You is not that and you know, man, you just have to be paid as he does."

And that of the 2004 season and AFC Championship Games: "... (T) he Patriots, who beat us during the regular season, and stole our signals picked up 90 percent of our blitz. They got broke for later, but, hey, they are boys Goodell, so he slapped 'em $ 500,000 and burned the tapes. "

The full article is not out yet, but only excerpts from long-term. Reports are that when the article is actually, it will include Harrison gay-bashing, complaining that black players are fined heavier than white, and saying that linebacker Brian Cushing is Houston "Juiced outside its spirit. "

But from these early statements about Goodell and Roethlisberger, and the picture with the guns, Harrison emerges as an image-killer. A truth-good adventure, but an image-killer.