If anyone would know the ways of the hood it’s the average football player.
True 40% of the NFL members are felons.
NFL - "21% charged with a serious crime" does not equal 40% felons.
NBA - 40% "involved in a serious crime"
"Jeff Benedict has written provocative books about the violence in both leagues. In Pros and Cons: The Criminals Who Play in the N.F.L., which came out in the late 1990s, he and his coauthor Don Yaeger claimed that 21 percent of NFL players had been charged with a serious crime. The NFL has instituted programs to help keep players on the straight and narrow, and league officials laud their effectiveness (who counts Cincinnati, anyway?). A revised personal conduct policy is being unveiled at the annual league meeting this week that is said to be much tougher. But then, there is something profoundly self-defeating about a sports league that needs to set up crime prevention programs for its players. It’s one of those situations where the promised cure only reminds observers how bad the illness really is.
A few years after Pros and Cons, Benedict wrote Out of Bounds: Inside the NBA’s Culture of Rape, Violence, and Crime, in which he claimed that an incredible 40 percent of NBA players had been involved in a serious crime. "