Cincinnati Bengals left tackle Andrew Whitworth lambasted the NFL on Sunday for failing to sanction Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker Vince Williams, over a tweet where he indirectly offered a threat to Bengals linebacker Vontaze Burfict.
Prior to Sunday's game, Burfict and Williams were involved in a confrontation, stemming from Williams' tweet that he sent Nov. 2.
Williams tweeted, and later deleted: "I catch (Vontaze) on South Beach, I'm painting that boi on sight."
Whitworth was predictably furious.
"I'll get in trouble for this, but this is the NFL's fault," Whitworth said to ESPN's Coley Harvey. "The bottom line is, I love the Pittsburgh Steelers, I love Mike Tomlin, but they had a player that made a death threat to one of ours after the last game about spilling his blood in the streets, and everyone saw it, and the NFL did nothing about it."
Although the contentious rivalry could stem from the teams playing twice a year, Whitworth assigned the majority of blame towards commissioner Roger Goodell.
"But when you allow guys to talk about barbaric things off the football field, and in this day and age of our country? And you allow guys to talk about things like that, it's on Roger Goodell and the NFL. They should have done something. They should have stepped up. They should have made sure that players know that kind of attitude and that kind of character is not involved in the league. That's their fault. It's on their head."
