{"id":10017,"date":"2013-11-25T16:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.stub.com\/hq\/news\/titans-griffin-suspended-for-one-game\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T04:39:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T04:39:22","slug":"titans-griffin-suspended-for-one-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/titans-griffin-suspended-for-one-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans&#8217; Griffin suspended for one game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NFL suspended Tennessee Titans safety Michael Griffin one game without pay for a repeat violation of NFL safety rules prohibiting hits to the head and neck area of defenseless players.<\/p>\n<p>Griffin was penalized for unnecessary roughness in the second quarter of Sunday&#8217;s game against Oakland for delivering a blow to the head of a defenseless receiver, Raiders tight end Mychal Rivera.<\/p>\n<p>The violation was Griffin&#8217;s second this season and fourth since 2011. All four violations were for striking defenseless players in the head and neck area.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Collective Bargaining Agreement, Griffin&#8217;s suspension may be appealed within three business days and an expedited hearing and decision can be requested in advance of Sunday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>The 5-6 Titans are one of six teams tied for the final Wild Card spot in the AFC. Tennessee heads to Indianapolis Sunday to take on the AFC South-leading Colts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, NY (SportsNetwork.com) &#8211; The NFL suspended Tennessee Titans safety Michael Griffin one game without pay for a repeat violation of NFL safety rules prohibiting hits to the head and neck area of defenseless players. Griffin was penalized for unnecessary roughness in the second quarter of Sunday&#8217;s game against Oakland for delivering a blow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[101,100,102],"class_list":["post-10017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-titans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10029,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions\/10029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}