NFL makes Suh sit out for 2 games

ALLEN PARK, Mich. -- ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Ndamukong Suh's stomp will cost him two games without pay. It may cost the Lions more than that. The NFL suspended Detroit's All-Pro defensive tackle for roughing up a Green Bay Packers player in front of a national television audience during a loss on Thanksgiving Day.

Suh will miss Sunday night's game at New Orleans and a Dec. 11 home game against Minnesota, with the Lions desperately trying to keep pace in the NFC. He won't be reinstated until Dec. 12.

The team will have a roster exception during Suh's suspension. Instead, Suh, who can't practice or be at the Lions' practice facility for any reason during the suspension, will be watching the Lions (7-4) scramble to keep up in the NFC wild-card race after what the league said was his fifth violation of on-field rules in his first two years in the NFL.

And everyone saw this one.

Suh lifted up his right knee and forcibly stepped on the right arm of Green Bay guard Evan Dietrich-Smith during the third quarter of the Lions' 27-15 loss last Thursday. Before the stomp seen from coast to coast, Suh shoved Dietrich-Smith's helmet toward the turf while separating himself from the Packers player on the ground.

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