Around the League: Week 2

[punch it in]

Originally Posted by tshile

When I said I hope no redskins player gets caught in a hard to explain situation, I said that because I think the league is going to go from severely underreacting in the rice situation (the original 2 game suspension) to the opposite side because of the backlash they've been receiving.



I didn't say the league is overreacting to everything right now. I'm actually surprised the league hasn't done anything about peterson, though I expect the second indictment to do something. I expect them to over react right now on future issues. I may be wrong.

See I dont believe they will over react I believe they will react properly now because they have egg on their face. Although it would have been nice to have justice served without being caught trying to cover it up Im ok with the fact that the court of public opinion will have justice served regardless.

[tshile]

Originally Posted by punch it in

See I dont believe they will over react I believe they will react properly now because they have egg on their face. Although it would have been nice to have justice served without being caught trying to cover it up Im ok with the fact that the court of public opinion will have justice served regardless.

if what comes out of this is that the league reacts properly, then i'll be happy.

though my thought for years has been that trying to legislate behavior outside of the field is a tricky one and i expect it's just a matter of time before they slip up again.

if it wasn't for the video the NFL would have gotten away completely free with their nonsense on the Rice issue. Don't forget that. Apparently there's a lot of people that don't understand what it takes to knock someone out, and just having a video of him dragging her out of the elevator unconscious wasn't enough. They needed to actually see him hit her to get angry and for the NFL to feel any pressure. Domestic violence with NFL players is not new. There's an unfortunately long history of it. It wasn't such a social issue until now... I'm curious how many people demanding Rice be run out of the league are bears fans with marshall jerseys. Or pay pay per view for floyd mayweather fights. Or any of the other ways people in sports guilty of domestic violence are being financially supported.

Anyways... i'm skeptical at best that the result of this is going to be proper reaction from the league. But maybe that's just because I've grown to hate the league for the last 5 years