Posted on 06/30/2013 8:08:15 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez might be the worst of this bunch but he’s not the first or the last NFL player arrested since the lights went out after the February 8th Super Bowl.
Here’s the list so far:
Michael Boley, New York Giants (Feb. 8): Child abuse in Alabama.
Da’Quan Bowers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Feb. 18): possession of firearm in...
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Perhaps the regime is cracking down since the NFL refused to promote obamacare?
Maybe the NFL should go to a year round season to keep them out of trouble
The NFL should look into the MLB model of player development. It takes several years from signing a rookie to his shot at the big show and potential problems are pretty unlikely to be missed in that time.
Colleges need to crack down on problem players as well.
My thoughts exactly. I think they have all the sh** they need on anyone at anytime and use it when necessary.
The NFL, NBA and MLB are multi-million dollar showcases of potential, extant, and convicted felons.
Joe Lefeged arrested on gun charges
Posted on Sat Jun 29 2013 20:56:18 GMT-0400 (EDT) by BlueStateRightist
WASHINGTON -- Indianapolis Colts safety Joe Lefeged was arrested early Saturday after officers found a semi-automatic pistol in the car he was riding in, police said.
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this article lost all credibility with me at the start... the Superbowl did not take place on February 8th... it was on February 3rd! the 8th is my birthday, and it was on a Friday this year... :)
Colleges will do no such thing since so many univertities are nothing more than life support for a football program. Penn State comes quickly to mind, so does Notre Dame.
The NFL will do no such thing since they promote thuggery ON the field, and tolerate thuggery OFF the field. Attempts at enforcing player behavior codes are opposed at every turn by the players’ UNION.
Football was once a great game of gentlemen athletes using their brains for strategy and their bodies to carry it out. Now it’s street fighting with protective gear. Young men without a fraction of the maturity needed to handle the vast sums of money handed even the worst NFL player allow their immaturity and avarice to make stupid decisions, egged on by hangers-on who are only after their vast sums.
The fault lies, however, not with the players, the teams, or the league. The players largely have grown up as thugs and aren’t discouraged by their supervisors. The teams care not about the game, just on winning what’s left of it. The league only sees the bucks rolling in. The league, players and teams assume, and righfully so, that the people who support them with cash and attention must approve of their players’ behavior, because they keep supporting it. and any attempt to change will be itibated by the players’ union.
The solution lies with us. When we watch the games on TV and provide the ratings, buy the merchandise, buy tickets and in any way support the NFL, we perpetuate the thug behavior. until ‘fans’ desert theNFL and demand the return of a gentleman’s game, and college football alumni and ‘boosters’ withold donations until college football changes back to an extracurricular activity from the reason the university exists, the list of players arrested for breaking the laws of a polite society will get longer with every passing season.
One of my relatives was a cop in the Cleveland suburbs where many of the Browns lived back in the 70s and 80s. The local police agencies got the home number of the Browns’ director of security, and were asked to call if their players became a problem. Those players had a habit of getting traded of cut altogether. The teams once denanded they be upstanding citizens. Those days are clearly over.
Football *was* a great game that taught as much about integrity, perseverence, work ethic, strategy and fairness in conduct as it did about a sport. I hope that it can be again one day. I fear that it never will again.
That’s 27 out of over 3000. Mostly minor stuff. I know that breaks the narrative, but some narratives need to be broken. The fact is the arrest rate in the NFL is lower than the national average.
most of these were not felony arrests... and i wonder how many will even play out as convictions...
The problem lies with people who can’t do simple math and see that 27 out of over 3000 is basically nothing.
A rising tide of government corruption and criminality lifts all criminal boats.
27 Out of 3,000 in five months of one year...and this is only the ones who actually got arrested...and does’t count thuggish behavior that wasn’t reported or was swept under the rug by star struck cops, intimidated witnesses and victims or boght off with tickets, merchandise or an autograph.
More troubling is the feeling that “27 of 3,000 isn’t that bad”. It’s atrocious. ONE is too many. And why is it that the incidence was zero or one 20 years ago? excusing the behavior makes you a BIG part of the problem and NONE of the solution...but then again, you don’t seem to feel that there’s a problem at all.
More’s the pity.
Less than 1%. And some of them are even guys that are out of the league like Titus Young(released by Lions and Rams), or really never were in the league like Ausar Walcott (undrafted free agent signed last month, released when arrested). Most won’t even result in charges. If there’s a problem with the NFL arrest rate being less than half of the general American arrest rate it’s not on the NFL side of the equation.
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