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06:02 AM ET 01.19 | A league source who was watching the AFC title game contacted us by e-mail on Sunday night while Ravens' trainers were tending to running back Willis McGahee, who at the time possibly had sustained a serious head and/or neck injury. The source was livid regarding the fact that, while McGahee was laying on the turf, the folks who operate the sound system at Heinz Field opted to play rock music over the P.A. system. Specifically, the selections were "Down On The Corner" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, and then "Smooth" by Santana featuring Rob Thomas. Said the source: "There is a player on the field who may have suffered a life changing injury and the Steelers are playing party music. There are about five teams in the league that would engage in such horrific behavior. All others would cease all entertainment."

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Willis McGahee, AP Willis McGahee, AP
January 19, 2009  06:35 AM ET

What do you suggest they play, a funeral dirge?

January 19, 2009  06:37 AM ET

I'm a Steelers fan and I agree... the music should have stopped altogether... but, hey, people make mistakes and I hope McGahee recovers fully...

January 19, 2009  07:03 AM ET

Look on the bright side they could of played the following music instead!! lol

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
LL Cool J-Mama Said Knock You Out
Eric Clapton-Tears in Heaven

January 19, 2009  07:03 AM ET

i heard the music playing as well and was wondering why it was playing. im sure they didnt "mean anything by it", they were just passing the time

January 19, 2009  07:04 AM ET

Look on the bright side they could of played the following music instead!!

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
LL Cool J-Mama Said Knock You Out
Eric Clapton-Tears in Heaven

January 19, 2009  07:04 AM ET

Look on the bright side they could of played the following music instead!! lol

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
LL Cool J-Mama Said Knock You Out
Eric Clapton-Tears in Heaven

Comment #7 has been removed
January 19, 2009  07:34 AM ET

I'd like to know who the so-called "league source" was who made the comments above! I thought his closing comment, "... the Steelers are playing party music. There are about five teams in the league that would engage in such horrific behavior. All others would cease all entertainment", was far more classless than whoever mistakenly continued to play music. Did he happen to notice the Steelers on the bench praying with their heads bowed or Big Ben going over to talk to Coach Harbaugh during the time McGahee was laying on the field?The "league source" sounds like a bitter Baltimore native who would say that Pittsburgh fans/management/ players are typically engaged "in such horrific behavior" is flat-out wrong and obviously biased!

January 19, 2009  07:42 AM ET
QUOTE(#7):

Yeah man I heard that music too and I thought it was very disrespectful to be playing some stupid songs while a brother is lying out on the field with a broken freaking neck type injury. The boy may never walk again and they are playing a song about being on a corner and down in the streets. ****? Can you gets anymore messed up. It is probably because of MLK day or the inogoration festivites kickin in the countries. What kind of world are we livin in people? Cant we all just get along with each other?

Idiot.

Comment #10 has been removed
January 19, 2009  07:45 AM ET

Classless.

January 19, 2009  08:00 AM ET

Look on the bright side they could of played the following music instead!!

Led Zeppelin-Stairway to Heaven
LL Cool J-Mama Said Knock You Out
Eric Clapton-Tears in Heaven

NickMaldonado23

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IMAO!!! that's a good one, but I have some tracks of my own:

Death is not the end----Bod Dylan
The way we were---Barbra Streisand
Circle of life----Elton John....

na,seriously that was a nasty hit,helmet to helmet you might say,but it seems like he tried to turn his body and hit Mcgahee with his shoulders,but it was too late...I think the referees allowed lots of cheap shots(from both teams)...get well McGahee...

January 19, 2009  08:10 AM ET

Man that was just so tacky and tasteless and classless.

January 19, 2009  08:29 AM ET

Starting the foot stomp and hand clap of "We Will Rock You"... now THAT would have been nasty.

January 19, 2009  08:40 AM ET

How about Johnny Cash's "25 Minutes to Go"????

January 19, 2009  08:41 AM ET

"25 Minutes to Go" -- Johnny Cash

"Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" -- Monty Python

January 19, 2009  08:47 AM ET

how about limus coming back and getting the team pumped after he dropped that sure touchdown pass....he gave corey ivy the business, it was a

January 19, 2009  08:47 AM ET

GREAT HIT!

January 19, 2009  08:47 AM ET

they shouldve played


ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST!

 
January 19, 2009  08:53 AM ET

You have 65,000 people in a stadium in a very tense and emotional game with alcohol, if the PA went dead silent and you let people to converse or begin to think it could have been much worse. Music calms the savage beast is what I have always heard. Classless would have been the HERE WE GO STEELERS Chant or the CHARGE Trumpet being played.

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