Discussion for article #228677
More of the iceberg is becoming visible
Honest, I just don’t understand it. What is it about domestic violence that we expect an employer to punish the perpetrators instead of the criminal justice system?
Shoudn’t these sonsobitches be in jail for assault and battery, like any of us normal human beings would be treated? It’s crazy to expect the employers who profit from their talents to be the ones to levy punishment, and doing so lays bare the charade we call “justice.”
To borrow from Leona Helmsley, justice is for the little people.
If American football was a drug, it would have been banned by the FDA years ago!
That’s not the only thing Roger the dodger and his billionaire owners have been covering up…with a lot of help from their bought and paid for local politicians!
Concussions and football brain disease - cover up! For every diagnosed concussion in the NFL, about 16 go un-diagnosed. This figure is much higher in college football and it is out of site in high school football.
How many high school football players die each year from football injuries? Google it - you will be amazed!
Widespread domestic abuse - cover up going back to even before Jim Brown!
Widespread use of PED’s and other illegal drugs (pot is legal in 2 states and growing) - cover up!
Huge government subsidies for stadiums and training facilities - cover up! While school budgets and other services are being cut.
Much shorter life expectancy for all pro football players - cover up!
Racism in the league among the owners and investors - cover up!
The NFL and big time College and high school football - cover up!
Ok, Mr. DeAngelo…you opened the door a little bit farther. Now tell us, who, what and where are all these domestic abusers. Tell us what you did and what those of your peers did. Thanks in advance.
This is disturbing. Not surprising but disturbing. What going on when large institutions like the NFL, churches, and universities think they have the right to hide criminal behavior?
Goodell made it his priority when he came into the league to crack down on discipline and make the NFL into a pseudo-court entity, and forced that onto the NFLPA when they negotiated the CBA (the owners had the weak union on their heels and managed to turn public opinion against the players, b/c the average NFL fan is a meatball). He didn’t intend to expose every incident of domestic violence or punish everything a player does, but this is where he finds himself. It reminds me of Gorbachev and glasnost. Gorbachev wanted to change the Soviet Union, not collapse it, but once he got that ball rolling he couldn’t stop it.