The rivalry between the Bengals and Steelers is starting to get more heated off the field than it is on the field.
In a play that I deemed dirty from the onset, Steelers running back Le’Veon Bell went down with a season-ending MCL injury in the Bengals’ 16-10 win Sunday, after being pulled down violently from behind.
At least one Steelers player said he thought the Bengals were trying injure Bell on purpose.
Several other Steelers players said that they were mad at Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict because they thought he was celebrating the hit that injured Bell.
Steelers linebacker Vince Williams sent a late-night threat on Twitter to Burfict.
I don’t think he threatened to kill Burfict, but that was the tone taken by Bengals fans.
@King55Tez @VinnyVidiVici98 I wonder what the ginger hammer @nflcommish would think about threatening another player.
— goat (@GoatFish77) November 2, 2015
Can't believe @King55Tez is getting death threats for playing good football. By a verified @twitter account even. Smh @VinnyVidiVici98
— king of jarts (@BigPublisher) November 2, 2015
Williams deleted the tweet, but not before Burfict responded.
@VinnyVidiVici98 why wait then u kno were I'm at pic.twitter.com/khEd43nBmf
— Vontaze Burfict (@King55Tez) November 2, 2015
Burfict said he believes he made a clean hit on Bell and he thinks that Williams only made the threat because he was mad about losing to the Bengals.
“We won. He’s mad they lost,” Burfict said Monday, via the Cincinnati Enquirer. “I have nothing to say about it. It was a clean hit. Le’Veon is a friend of mine. I didn’t intentionally mean to hurt him. It’s football.”
