Tuesday, April 10, 2007
the new sheriff
I love the decisions that new NFL commish Roger Goodell announced today: tough suspensions for Pacman Jones and Chris Henry and holding teams responsible for the conduct of players. For too many years, all professional sports have had serious issues with player conduct on and off the field. Baseball's Barry Bonds will never have his hitting records fully accepted because of the scent of steroids that he can't seem to wash off. Heck, many of the "great" players of the 1990s and today will always be thought of as juicing (one of several reasons I will never love baseball again).
The fight in the stands with Ron Artest of the NBA. A horrible event. True, a player shouldn't have to worry about being hit with cups of beer.
It almost seems that the NFL could have had a team composed of only those arrested this past season. When a Super Bowl player has to get special permission from a judge to go to the game, well, that's just bad. When that player has enough guns and ammo to supply a small army, that's worse (I've been to Chicago a few times....I never noticed that the streets were THAT mean). Many of the players themselves are supportive of the tough sanctions and Commissioner Goodell was wise enough to form a panel of players to look into this issue. Hopefully next season, more players will make headlines for outstanding efforts on the field than stupidity off.
The fight in the stands with Ron Artest of the NBA. A horrible event. True, a player shouldn't have to worry about being hit with cups of beer.
It almost seems that the NFL could have had a team composed of only those arrested this past season. When a Super Bowl player has to get special permission from a judge to go to the game, well, that's just bad. When that player has enough guns and ammo to supply a small army, that's worse (I've been to Chicago a few times....I never noticed that the streets were THAT mean). Many of the players themselves are supportive of the tough sanctions and Commissioner Goodell was wise enough to form a panel of players to look into this issue. Hopefully next season, more players will make headlines for outstanding efforts on the field than stupidity off.
