Get out of jail free
Let me set the scene for you. You’re in your favorite restaurant or drinking establishment sitting around a table drafting your fantasy football team. Suddenly two league owners get into a shouting match and the arguing begins to escalate. You witness one man throw another
to the ground while his victim lays stunned and shocked.
At that instant you witness a 300-pound owner stomp the head of the defenseless man into the ground not once, but twice. There’s blood all over the floor, but the two uniformed police officers in the room just shrug their shoulders and let the bartenders and waitresses handle the situation.
Could something like this happen in real life? You bet. Sunday when Titans’ defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth stomped on the head of Dallas offensive lineman Andre Gurode with his sharp metal cleats, he should have exited the stadium wearing shiny metal cuffs. How in the world does a man assault another man on national television in front of thousands of fans and get no repercussions from the law? If this exact incident happened in the stands, then an arrest would have been made so why was no arrest made Sunday?
NFL officials want you and to think this injustice is okay because Haynesworth lost five weeks pay. So let me get this straight, Ricky Williams smokes marijuana a couple of times and he’s done for the season. Albert Haynesworth puts the career, vision and livelihood of a co-worker in danger by stomping on his head a couple times and he gets five weeks off.
The most disgusting part of the whole incident is the spin that the NFL puts on the whole thing. League officials have been quick to point out that the suspension is the longest in league history for on-field behavior. Big deal. NFL players are rich so missing a few paychecks isn’t going to do the trick.
Without actually taking the life of another man, how could Sunday’s actions have been more brutal? A weapon was used to purposely mangle the face of another man. That sounds like assault to me.
Let me set the scene for you. You’re in your favorite restaurant or drinking establishment sitting around a table drafting your fantasy football team. Suddenly two league owners get into a shouting match and the arguing begins to escalate. You witness one man throw another
to the ground while his victim lays stunned and shocked.At that instant you witness a 300-pound owner stomp the head of the defenseless man into the ground not once, but twice. There’s blood all over the floor, but the two uniformed police officers in the room just shrug their shoulders and let the bartenders and waitresses handle the situation.
Could something like this happen in real life? You bet. Sunday when Titans’ defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth stomped on the head of Dallas offensive lineman Andre Gurode with his sharp metal cleats, he should have exited the stadium wearing shiny metal cuffs. How in the world does a man assault another man on national television in front of thousands of fans and get no repercussions from the law? If this exact incident happened in the stands, then an arrest would have been made so why was no arrest made Sunday?
NFL officials want you and to think this injustice is okay because Haynesworth lost five weeks pay. So let me get this straight, Ricky Williams smokes marijuana a couple of times and he’s done for the season. Albert Haynesworth puts the career, vision and livelihood of a co-worker in danger by stomping on his head a couple times and he gets five weeks off.
The most disgusting part of the whole incident is the spin that the NFL puts on the whole thing. League officials have been quick to point out that the suspension is the longest in league history for on-field behavior. Big deal. NFL players are rich so missing a few paychecks isn’t going to do the trick.
Without actually taking the life of another man, how could Sunday’s actions have been more brutal? A weapon was used to purposely mangle the face of another man. That sounds like assault to me.
posted by The Coach at 12:23 AM
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