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Originally Posted by SmootSmack
I read somewhere recently, and I can look for the link tomorrow I suppose, that the NFL and its players really don't do much worse than normal society in terms of numbers of arrests and types of arrests. If anything, the league is a reflection of society in general with people getting arrested for drinking and driving, bar fights, domestic disputes. But the cameras aren't focused on most of society.
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SS! Surprised you're still awake on a "school night." It's been pretty much Quake and I going back and forth for the last hour.
I hear what you are saying to a degree. Certainly when a player in the NFL gets busted for anything it's news based on the high profile of the league. But I think (and I have ZERO numbers to back this up) that if you take the number of players in the league and divide by the number of arrests/off-field transgressions, it has to be a lot higher than pretty much any other profession. I could be way off, but it just seems like all that money, all that testosterone, the sense of entitlement, and the young age of these guys = more slip ups than normal.