NFL Team Covered Up Domestic Violence

[jamf]

Sad article.
Former New Orleans Saints Wives Say NFL Covered Up Their Abuse

I didn't think I could hate Haslett more. What a scumbag.
I doubt he is the only one and I'm sure some of my DC hero are not saints.

[SFREDSKIN]

Fire his ass now!!

[mooby]

I saw something a couple weeks ago (can't remember if it's a rumor or not) that basically said this is pretty much commonplace throughout the league. I'm sure recent events have changed how teams decide to approach these situations but I wouldn't be surprised if every team does this, including the Redskins.

[Dirtbag59]

Wonder if this story will hang around. Remember the press conference that lawyer in Atlanta held a couple weeks back for the woman who had been beaten by Brandon Marshall....yeah not too many people do at this point.

Not much by the way of stories on this since mid-September
Lawyer: Roger Goodell Ignored Victim Who Accused Brandon Marshall Of Domestic Violence « CBS Chicago

Though at this point former Saint defensive coaches are starting to rival NFL running backs in terms of bad behavior.

[SmootSmack]

What Haslett did is not unique, some of the most respected HC's in NFL History have done the same

[donofriose]

Just proves haslett was part of the problem. Doesn't make it right but it just proves what "values" a lot of these NFL coaches like haslett truly had.

[Lotus]

Originally Posted by donofriose

Just proves haslett was part of the problem. Doesn't make it right but it just proves what "values" a lot of these NFL coaches like haslett truly had.

I am not making light of Haslett's situation but the fact is, similar things happen all the time in many different businesses.

Domestic violence is a social issue which is much bigger than the NFL.

[NC_Skins]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What Haslett did is not unique, some of the most respected HC's in NFL History have done the same

Tony Dungy comes to mind. Such a huge hypocrite.

[Hog1]

Originally Posted by NC_Skins

Tony Dungy comes to mind. Such a huge hypocrite.

why so...

[MTK]

Originally Posted by Lotus

I am not making light of Haslett's situation but the fact is, similar things happen all the time in many different businesses.

Domestic violence is a social issue which is much bigger than the NFL.

Exactly, it's an issue that goes deeper than the NFL. What's gone in the league with stories like this is just a reflection of society in general.

[htownskinfan]

Originally Posted by SmootSmack

What Haslett did is not unique, some of the most respected HC's in NFL History have done the same

Reading between the lines are you trying to say Gibb's knew of something and covered it up?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mattyk

exactly, it's an issue that goes deeper than the nfl. What's gone in the league with stories like this is just a reflection of society in general.

this!!!

[SirLK26]

From the posted article:

The NFL needs to stop hiding behind machismo and answer to what is very clearly a societal problem that the largest sports business in the world is enabling.

That, times 10. It may be a societal problem, but the NFL covers it up and enables it. Saying it's a problem of "society in general" is no excuse for the NFL.



The cops are just as bad:

For battered NFL wives, a message from the cops and the league: Keep quiet - The Washington Post

In rare cases when women did muster the courage to notify law enforcement, police officers appeared to tolerate players’ bad behavior. “When the cops would come, they just said we needed some time apart, and they would talk to [Wally] about football,” Smith-Williams recalls. “The police tell you, ‘You don’t want this in the news.’ I have things that happened in my life that there is no record of.”

Neighbors who saw the altercation begin outside their home had called the police. But when they arrived, instead of arresting her husband, the officers chatted and laughed with him about his successful game, she says. One requested an autograph for his kid. When her husband cleaned the blood from her face and ushered her downstairs to assure the police officers all was well in the home, they overlooked any evidence of abuse, she says, and as far as she knows they never filed a police report.

[Lotus]

The point being made by others here is that many other non-NFL people cover it up and enable it, even systematically in a business situation. That makes it a social problem.

Sadly the NFL has no monopoly on "cover up and enable domestic violence."

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by SirLK26

From the posted article:



That, times 10. It may be a societal problem, but the NFL covers it up and enables it. Saying it's a problem of "society in general" is no excuse for the NFL.



The cops are just as bad:
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No one said it was an excuse ,as you point out "other " groups in society have done the same in the past, who is worse in your eyes ,police or the NFL ,or firemen ,teachers ,Doctors , Lawyers ,plumbers ,cooks, pilots ,the NBA , politicians ,which group is the worst because at sometime they covered for someone ???