Shutdown the NFL

[steelslaver]

I agree that those who commit off field violence should be punished and that sports need to quit sweeping things like this under the table. I also believe that this starts way before the NFL. Kids get special treatment in HS and college because the excel in sports is hardly new. They get the idea early that they can get away with stuff others can't. Society needs to clean up its act before the NFL really can. I do believe the NFL is responding and trying to police itself better. But, I also don't believe it represents the majority of the players. I also believe that the media loves this stuff, it sells a lot better than some player who visit kids in the hospital, donates money, etc. Some find it easy to forget the Walter Patton, the Kurt Warners, and the like and get on the band wagon about some those who dog fight or beat their wife. Rice smacks his and its an outrage (it should be), but, thousands of others do and it is ignored,, murderers and armed robbers get light sentences and early paroles and where is the super huge outcry that matches this circus?

I also believe that the law should be applied to sports figures as well as everyone else. Same should go for the rich and the beautiful. Money and status has always effected what people can get away with. I find it pretty sad that we have sports figures as role models in the first place. Should be our countries leaders not some jock or movie star.

 

[sourdough44]

I wouldn't care if the NFL shutdown, nothing against it either. I'd think it's a large contributor to the economy, for that reason it's best to keep rolling along.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

In the first case that started it all it was a special deal with the DA,,,,,imagine that! Special rules for special people.

I'll disagree with you on that one. Many times the DA's are forced to do things like that because the victim will not cooperate-they don't want the breadwinner to go to jail-be it a football player or a tractor driver during the cane season. got nothing to do with being a football player and everything to do with the mindset of the abusive relationship which crosses all social/economic/racial lines.

Remember-this happened in New Jersey and the couple was from out of town. If the victim doesn't want to press charges, the DA isn't gonna break a sweat over a couple of out of towners fighting in a hotel. Pure and simple. It's called Moving the docket and it happens all the time.
-otherwise we would be even more clogged than we already are. Unacceptable-sure. But it is what it is and unless we double the size of everything, that's how it's gonna stay.
Sorry.

Oh and all those guys who are being placed on the inactive list and told to stay away until their cases are resolved-gues what-they're still getting paid. ANd you know what??? Ray Rice's suspension will be overturned by the collective bargaining agteement-Goodell had all the info he needed when he handed out that 2 game suspension. Not that it matters cause he's been cut.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Notice how it all changed precisely at the point Budweiser said they would pull their ad money.

And what do you think all those guys drink before they get to beating on their women???

 

[loknload]

Cajun, while I understand what your saying, at the same time this DA gave him ARD in this case and is my understanding he is going forward in proscecution of the black woman who left her handgun in her car when crossing into NJ to pick up her son. Stupid mistake on her part but I know other people have done it as well. I haven't heard to much on this case as recent but at least one Philly news station was in her court.
Special things for special people?

 

[NYlakesider]

If like to see the same rules that they have at my job.
I work for a large company. They have a strict code of conduct.
At my job, if you get into any type of physical altercation, get arrested for certain offenses (on or off the clock), you get fired, period.

If you get fired for certain things, you can't ever get re-hired anywhere in the company.

I think that would solve a lot of problems in all professional sports.

My construction union I worked for did not have many specific rules on behavior, but many of the plants I was sent to work at sure did. Most of those plants you could work heavy over time and could make a very serious looking pay check at the end of the week.

You violate their rules and you're out of there at warp speed. Many of those plants (big well known companies) you had to take urine test on being first allowed into the plant and could not refuse random tests and ANY incident (injury or damage to company property) a test at that time was mandatory. Some of their rules were no alcoholic beverages allowed in the plant and parking area which was outside the fence. Meds had to be in original container.

Those things did not bother me but it did get a few of my union brothers ousted and they kept a list of offenders.

OBTW as this is a gun forum, those plants had signs at the check in/walk in point that listed rules one of which said no firearms, but nothing was ever said about in the parking area outside the fenced in area.

 

[williamlayton]

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Blessings

 

[mtrvl]

I must be missing something in all of this. WHY is the NFL supposed to be responsible for what goes on in the lives of their football players when they are not actually playing football? This country is going down the crapper through "Political Correctness".

 

[Muss Muggins]

And what do you think all those guys drink before they get to beating on their women???

I suspect it's something more expensive than Budweiser . . .

 

[Rustyt1953]

The league has tarnished its brand and deserves scrutiny.
But, in all this I have to give kudos to the Bengals for what Mike Brown, Marvin Lewis, the team and other teams around the league for what they are doing for Devon Still and his four year old daughter.

I am sure some of you already know. If not, Google him and see the side of football we rarely see. Win or lose, I am proud of my team.

Who Dey!

 

[PatAz]

It wouldn't hurt my feelings any if it was shut down.

 

[feralmerril]

I have never paid to watch a game of any kind. Therefore I am the least qualified to give a opinion but will anyway. If people at least boycotted by not buying tickets for games of that particular team that allowed those guys to play that would put on pressure on the owners to get rid of them.
No doubt there must be good players with high morals as well as a bunch of gifted thugs. No matter how you look at it, it comes down to money.
Besides not buying tickets I have bought next to no music and havent paid for many movies. I wont be part of making some spoiled thugs, unGodly, egotistical, immoral, overrated, undeserving people multi millionaires.
People are having their heads cut off and we let this occupy our time?

 

[finesse_r]

I have to admit, the idea of paying some halfwit millions of dollars and making him a celebrity just because he can run fast and catch a ball is abhorrent to me. I have not watched a professional football game in well over 20 years and probably closer to 30 years now. I think the first time some jerk spiked a ball in the end zone and did his little dance, and was not flagged for it, I decided this was not my kind of sport.

Strangely I grew up playing football because I loved the game, but I can't stand professional football. I have no idea what good season tickets would cost these days, but I expect you could by a used car for what they go for. LOL

I would much rather watch a little league game where the kids are playing for the joy of playing. I don't even watch college level football any longer. It is getting to be more and more like pro-ball or at least like the minor leagues for pro ball.

It would not be legal to just shut it down as long as there are people willing to pay money to watch it, but I just have no interest in it any longer. As long as there are crazy fans to support the silly game, it will continue and it will continue to get special treatment, just as all large powerful groups do.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

They never made any money off me. Something of a double standard here, Big Name Sports Figure belts wife/girlfriend/kid, front page news, goes to top of Public Enemies List. Welfare deadbeat on the public dole does the same, page 10.

 

[The Last Standing Knight]

NFL = National Felony League.

These type of professional athletes have been getting away with crimes for a lot of years. It starts in high school and progresses from there. They "graduate" from college with a degree in - advanced weight lifting and wait to be drafted into the NFL in April or May of the year they graduate. The college they attend usually does not make a difference unless it's one of the military academies (West Point, Annapolis, Air Force Academy, etc.) . Nevertheless, they can not read or write a complete sentence.They need agents / attorneys to tell them what, where and when to sign contracts and other documents - in other words they are for all intent and purpose illiterate.The NFL is a multi - billion dollar industry. These guys have been protected and looked after all of their life and been immune from corrective action or punishment because of the college or NFL team they play for and you expected normal behavior?

Perhaps someone can correct me if I'm wrong here, but I 've heard that the National Football League is a tax-exempt organization. If this IS true, my question is simple: WHY? Most people look at pro sports...ANY pro sport...as just that; a sport. It is not. It is a business that for all intents and purposes masquerades as a sport. One of the reasons I no longer follow professional sports.

 

[feralmerril]

I met a guy the other day that runs some type of "Non profit" drug consoling service. Sounded like he had done it for a long time. I said, excuse me but if you dont make a profit, how have you paid your bills? He proceeded to try to tell me how the scam works but I still dont understand. Guess thats why I aint rich. A non profit organization can pay its players millions?

 

[ChuckS1]

The NFL is a multi-billion dollar business. Did you know it has a
tax exempt status?

The NFL is the governing body and is a nonprofit organization, thus the tax exempt status. The teams are not. Big difference. Team owners pay the salaries, not the NFL. If people don't understand the difference between "nonprofit" and "for profit" organizations, I can see where someone gets confused.

I still don't see where any of the off-field conduct is the responsibility of the NFL, any more than it is my employer's business of what I do at home. It's funny that the same people who say whatever people do in the privacy of their home (like doing drugs, sex, or whatever) is their own business are the same ones dictating how a parent should discipline their kids.

 

[italiansport]

Not to get off the subject but Handgun Control(Or whatever they call themselves these days) is a tax exempt organization. It was set up to try and take away our 2nd Amendment rights. The last I knew one of the founders, Sarah Brady, was being paid $250,000 per year plus expenses.
She has reaped millions off her husbands misfortune over the years.
Jim

 

[ladder13]

Love NFL football, love it. I wish they brought back Stick Um.

 

[rwsmith]

If you ask me....

Pro sports might as well be gone. They aren't a bit of fun any more.