He was one of the best defensive players on the 49ers defense.
Per SiriusXM, the Bears have released McDonald a few minutes ago.
This could have an effect on the Hardy appeal, as the league took it easy on McDonald when his previous charges were dropped, only to have a repeat here. They are not going to want to be seen as taking it easy on the next one.
but as a percentage of the general population, particularly the narrow slivers (age/demographics/city of origin) to which most NFL players belong, they are much better behaved than we suppose. It's a form of confirmation bias.
Roughly 1696 players in NFL at any given time. Lets say they average 4 years per player. That would be roughly 6360 different players in 15 years. 454 convictions for 6360 different players equals an average rate of 7.1 convictions per 100 players over the 15 years.
Believe it or not, the general population is apparently quite similar. According to this report (linked) from Princeton for 2010, about 7% of non-African Americans and 25% of African Americans were felons or ex-felons by 2010. With African Americans about 13% of the population, that gets you to about 8% of total population with a felony conviction. Of course, that is over an entire lifetime, not 4 years on average. So maybe from birth up to the end of their playing time, NFL players would average, say, 9-10% convicted.
Unless my rough calculations are way off, the data seems very similar. And, of course, weighting for African Americans in the NFL vs. the total population, those in the NFL do vastly better than in the average population. Roughly 68% of players are African American. Link - ( New Window )
The NFL isn't filled with with a bunch of criminals
It's just that every time a guy farts the wrong way it's plastered all over the news and interwebz.
Yes it is true. The percentages back this up. The difference is when some slob bartender goes home and smacks his wife around no one really knows about it and if he gets caught it's not on the ESPN headliner scroll. If some mailman gets caught in a drug ring no one cares. When Tom Brady deflates a fucking football it's talked about for weeks on end. When Ray rice punches his wife it's a national story.
your figures are off a bit because you're counting offenses which is another way of saying arrests. So the number of arrests in the NFL is probably lower than the number of convictions in the general population
Per SiriusXM, the Bears have released McDonald a few minutes ago.
This could have an effect on the Hardy appeal, as the league took it easy on McDonald when his previous charges were dropped, only to have a repeat here. They are not going to want to be seen as taking it easy on the next one.
Believe it or not, the general population is apparently quite similar. According to this report (linked) from Princeton for 2010, about 7% of non-African Americans and 25% of African Americans were felons or ex-felons by 2010. With African Americans about 13% of the population, that gets you to about 8% of total population with a felony conviction. Of course, that is over an entire lifetime, not 4 years on average. So maybe from birth up to the end of their playing time, NFL players would average, say, 9-10% convicted.
Unless my rough calculations are way off, the data seems very similar. And, of course, weighting for African Americans in the NFL vs. the total population, those in the NFL do vastly better than in the average population. Roughly 68% of players are African American.
Link - ( New Window )
Yes it is true. The percentages back this up. The difference is when some slob bartender goes home and smacks his wife around no one really knows about it and if he gets caught it's not on the ESPN headliner scroll. If some mailman gets caught in a drug ring no one cares. When Tom Brady deflates a fucking football it's talked about for weeks on end. When Ray rice punches his wife it's a national story.