Current Buffalo Bill rookie was cheap shot artist in college

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Look gang, I know the kid a little, ok? I spoke with his family a couple weeks after the game.

Brad lost his cool in the heat of an intense battle. He admits it. He's never done anything like that in his entire life prior or since. He was incredibly remorseful. He apologized personally to the BC player and coaches. He was depressed about it for weeks, and still embarrassed.

Check the guy's history and references from the rest of his life, and you'll find high character throughout. To suggest that his entire character is measured through a single emotional event is nuts, and totally unfair.

But I'm preaching to deaf ears, I suspect. Many of you have an agenda on this that shapes your view, given the intense emotionallity in your responses here. It's just football after all - adults playing a kids' game!

Wow, he (supposedly) told people in private how remorseful he is.

How come, more than 48 hours after the controversy, this "good" kid couldn't come up with something a bit more than that lame statement. His AD and his coach waxed almost poetic about sportsmanship and ethics. All this "mature young man' can do is mouth some plattitude that he regrets "the event" from taking place? As if the "event" made it all happen and not himself?

Gimme a break. Platts fan is 100% right, that kid owed everyone from Kiwanuka, to the teams to the viewers at home a public mea culpa. That act happened on national television - - that was Brent Musberger almost speechlessly gasping "geeeez" at the replay. You mean to tell us that Butler couldn't come up with a more honest apology in public after that? That we should take your word for it that he kept his honest apology for private?

Gee, maybe he's like some kind of "bad-guy" WWE wrestler and is intent on not letting the public know that his injuring-persona is just an act.

No, if he really and truly wanted to own up to that heinous act he would have in public like a grown man, instead of relying on legalistic platitudes and excuses that Kiwanuka can make plays from anywhere on the field. That could explain a mistaken late "BLOCK"- - it doesn't explain cutting down at his injured knee at a 45% angle while Kiwanuka was standing at a stop.

That "kids game - just football" means an income to these "kids". If that was an inch different and had it torn Kiwanuka's ACL, it would have been a multi-million dollar premeditated crime.

Perhaps he is a good kid. But that act was indefensible and his statement after it did not help him in anyone's eyes. Had he been a bit more honest in public - - instead of the excuses that he was just doing his job and was regretful that "the event" had to "happen" then many of us could cut him some slack.