Horse hockey! The guy tortured his son and it was abuse. The thing I don't get is the clamor in the media for the team to suspend the guy! Seems to me you leave punishment to court. Only in pro sports do people call for the employer to pass out punishment for an offense.
What's horse hockey? I said the guy tortured and abused his son. Playing professional sports is a privilege, not a right. Pete Rose was banned for life for gambling and he wasn't convicted of anything. (He was later convicted of Tax Evasion but that was after he was banned and had nothing to do with betting on baseball.)
It's not just sports, it's anything very visible to the masses job. Politician, actor, CEO and athlete, they all get a much higher standard of scrutiny in their daily lives and the public may demand actions above or separate from what the courts require.
Seems rather like a Roman arena mentality to me. I prefer leaving punishment to the courts and vengeance to god.
Down Dog! The exclamation was not intended to offend or disagree. Just sharing my reaction to what I see on TV.
So you don't believe in impeachment of Presidents if a court of law hasn't convicted the President of anything?
Wow, talk about clown town. The Minnesota Vikings are a joke. Yesterday the Vikings took AP off of suspension and allowed him to rejoin the team. Today they reversed themselves and suspended him again.
I'm glad nobody here is defending what AP did anymore. Once people realized it wasn't just spanking, all his defenders seem to have rightfully changed their tune. Or at least grown quiet.
Yesterday, they did the wrong thing. Today, they fixed it. I prefer that to the Bush model of being stubbornly wrong.
Look at the comments of an Adam Schefter or other popular NFL person on Twitter when they tweet something about AP, plenty of people are still defending him. Probably Viking fans or people that have him on their fantasy team. Same with Ray Rice, football is more important than real life.
It's not a court of law. Impeachment proceedings are a procedural power that Congress has at its disposal that is separate from the legal system. Similarly, the NFL has procedural powers at its disposal that are separate from courts of law.
The kid is 4yrs old, putting leafs in his mouth then whipping his bare thighs and testicles seems like torture to me. The kid would have agreed to anything to make it stop. How is it not torture? Never mind, I forget that being whipped by a large man is your idea of a fun Saturday night.
Really! Well one has due process procedures defined, the other does not. The teams obviously make it up on the fly. You are reaching.
the US isnt technically allowed to leave bloody welts in enhanced interrogation are they? isnt it mostly sleep dep, water torture, forced positions etc?
Not reaching at all. The details of each entity's procedural powers are different, but no one has suggested that teams like the Vikings are acting outside the CBA.
I went into the KFAN Viking forums for a peek. It's pretty interesting over there. http://rubechat.kfan.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=284539 http://rubechat.kfan.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=284596 By the way my fantasy team was almost a trifecta of abusers. I almost drafted AP, but took Jamal Charles instead. Then I drafted Ray Rice. I picked up Jonathan Dwyer as a free agent not too long ago. I recently picked up Brian Quick, so I am sure he will be the next NFL player in the news.
