While some of the NFL's problems are self-created... i.e. neglecting retired players and/or hiding injury reports/ studies, others are caused by miscreants... i.e. Ray Rice, Ray McDonald, or suspected miscreants like Adrian Peterson. These types of problems need to be handled swiftly and decisively from within. Perhaps a stronger Commissioner with the ability to properly interpret present contract language is the cure.
Other image problems are caused by the politically correct police who make stupid demands such as changing the name of the Redskins. (After 80+ years, this is suddenly offensive?!?)Or demand that guys like Rice, McDonald or Peterson are banned for life without any due process. Yet the very same PC police chastized Tim Tebow and the NFL for allowing him to make the Sign of the Cross and are now demanding that RGIII no longer wear his "Jesus T-Shirt" at press conferences.
Looks like there's no room for good or bad with the PC police!
Maybe you missed them.
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FACT - sheppers is close to inventing a time machine.
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So I'll be truthful and brief:
When you advertise your product to non football fans for ratings, add in the fact that any Tom, Dick or Mary has access to commentary on a sport they don't understand, start opening the book on football player's that have been coddled through college, then add video of wrong doings, it's a wet dream for reporters looking to attach their name to any scandal to further their career.
I'm not condoning any players actions, I would personally fight Ray Rice or Adrian Peterson for what they've done and take my ass kicking in the name of what's right but
If you open the book on every player, coach and executive in the NFL, there will be no football.
Careful what you wish for people...
You're not really a cat person, are you?
Well then, get fluxed!
I would have bumped the Hope J thread but it made both me and Cyn cry. I haven't cried since I found out Arrested Development went to Netflix.
If you care to share your Bob in Annapolis ashes story, I can muster the emotions to add to the thread.
There's many not worthy here but many more that don't post that would like to know. You're call hon...
- Gay BBIers
Just don't kiss me in front of my son or without brushing your teeth...
If you didn't want to talk to me, you could have just said so
No need to go to auto post, yeesh...
You can email me tomorrow if you're drunk ( thanks arc), god bless, I miss drinking.
Facebook Cyn for the address. Be safe sweetie...
And did you get a printout of his medical records? Sponge worthy?
Re-read when you get home, if you find time, the story is worth telling.
Night, night barry...
http://answeringthecritics.blogspot.com/2008/07/why-mormons-dont-use-symbol-of-cross.html
(In fact, many Christian denominations view Mormonism as a cult). Is this part of the reason why Tebow's demonstrations of reverence for God turns off so many ?
I'm guessing that's part of the reason, but mostly, I'm guessing it's because of the strong evolution of the country toward secularism. It's curious to see, however that African-American athletes (as a whole) lag behind in this mind-set ; it isn't uncommon to see many of them briefly kneel on one knee after scoring a touchdown.
Maybe sensitivity and Political Correctness has shielded them in the past; but now black man RGIII is a target of opportunity. It's interesting, to sit on the sideline and observe how this mini saga unfolds.
There's just so much Manny there.
Starring Ben Affleck as RGIII. But who plays Snyder? Billy Barty is gone, and so is J Fred Muggs. Sigh, so many great ones passed.
And, this gem:
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According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. That is the figure cited by the NAACP in its criminal justice fact sheet. In the NFL, that figure is closer to one in three hundred.
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The problem with this type of comparison is that it leaves out too many variables. You can't just compare black men not in the NFL against black men in the NFL. You have to compare black men not in the NFL who make at least the avg salary of the NFL players. Also, you have factor in black men not in the NFL who completed High School and then had some college studies as well. Can't compare crime stats someone who is living at say the poverty level to someone who is making $2 mil a yr. plus, the men in the NFL have such a huge support system around them, who does the guy making minimum wage have to help them? They certainly don't have a car service at the ready if they had too many drinks one night like the NFL players do.
Should we have mudbear do it?
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How have black NFL players have fared compared to young black men not in the NFL.
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According to the Bureau of Justice statistics, one in three black men can expect to go to prison in their lifetime. That is the figure cited by the NAACP in its criminal justice fact sheet. In the NFL, that figure is closer to one in three hundred.
The "one in 3" comes from the Sentencing Project. It is based on projections based on "if current incarceration rates continue" and I have not been able to find the date where the "one in 3" will be reached.(2020?) (2050?)
I do not believe anyone is "projecting" the NFL rate into the future, so the "1 in 300" is a current number.
Basically when we see a comparison on the internet we often have no way of knowing whether the comparison is being performed correctly.
To the regional point - I've known plenty of Baptists (my dad was one). I've never seen a single one "making the sign of the cross"
But if he's one of the first, I do find it very interesting, to see so many "getting all worked up" over players making brief and innocuous gestures that not insulating to anyone.