Pacman suspended for entire 2007 season!

[hooskins]

Originally Posted by GTripp0012

Very well said.

I don't have much to say on this topic. I wish it would all just go away the fans could talk more football and less criminal behavior. He deserves what he's getting, and hopefully he will learn something for it, because losing the entire 2007 from a developmental perspective will probably keep him from ever reaching his potential. It's going to take him a few years after he's reinstated to work his way back to the level of play he reached last year, and theres no guarentee he will ever regain his pro bowl form again.

Yupp, and the last point you made is right on. I don't know if he will reach a high level for a while. Also the NFL has to think about the kids that stay up and watch games. Pacman is an appealing player to them because of swagger and hey his name is catchy.

He is just an idiot on so many levels. He makes T.O. seem like a saint.

[GTripp0012]

Originally Posted by hooskins

Yupp, and the last point you made is right on. I don't know if he will reach a high level for a while. Also the NFL has to think about the kids that stay up and watch games. Pacman is an appealing player to them because of swagger and hey his name is catchy.

He is just an idiot on so many levels. He makes T.O. seem like a saint.

I agree.

The NFL would seem like a much safer place if the media would stop villifing everything T.O. does. Owens doesn't engage in criminal behavior, and he's a hard worker. He's a bit overrated as a player, and he's an idiot that handles situations in the worst possible way, but I'm guessing that there's a lot of guys across the league who do that. The difference is everything T.O. does is now a really important occurence, and he ends up getting villified for saying stupid things things when there are people in the league like Pac Man and Henry and Tank Johnson who are actually doing stupid things.

I think the perception of the fans are getting these lines blurred nowadays. Terrell Owens isn't a criminal. Randy Moss isn't a criminal. But because of the mass media coverage on them, the league develops a bad rep when guys like Chris Henry and Pac Man Jones actually do stuff wrong.