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TeamVic @TeamVic Let's be clear I never said I stood behind Josh Browns actions, what he admitted to is wrong and I do not stand being domestic abuse in the least bit. As a teammate that's all I know of him, teammate his personal life is exactly that and I stand far away from getting into that. |
He's done multiple campaigns against DA (No More, the Biden one a few years ago, etc)... where exactly would he publicly put himself on this matter? Is his sincerity about the issue as phony as the FO and ownership are coming off as being?
This is fucked man.
He's done multiple campaigns against DA (No More, the Biden one a few years ago, etc)... where exactly would he publicly put himself on this matter? Is his sincerity about the issue as phony as the FO and ownership are coming off as being?
I think we have an idea. He takes his causes seriously. The man has a wing of a children's hospital with his name on it.
What is the high road though?
He attached himself in very public fashion, in ways the vast majority of NFL players didn't, to the cause -- if you can't back that stance when it's in your house or leaving it (so to speak), why should anyone pay or have paid attention to you pretending to care when it's more convenient for you?
And people think Odell Beckham dancing is a distraction, so imagine what people would think if the QB decided to air out a teammate for domestic violence, regardless of how deserving he might be.
It's fine to stir the pot when it comes to the best player on the team and the guy who has played a large role in reinvigorating your own career having too many on field feelings while everyone in the media is absolutely crushing him, but doing anything but staying silent over a serial wife beating kicker after voluntarily taking a significant public stance against domestic abuse is a bridge too far.
He should ultimately be cut. I know they want to know everything else first. But there needs to be a stronger message against this rather than "we stand behind him"
Effectively the NFL has decided that it's an instrument for social change and prosecutor, judge, jury and Lord High Executioner.
In the rush to political correctness a man's right: to a trial, to innocent until PROVEN guilty, to facing his accussers, and, I'd suggest, to the Preamble's guarantee of right to life, liberty.....AND the pursuit of happiness all count for naught.
The NFL bases the usurpation of basic constitutionally guaranteed rights on the grounds "of brand protection". These are rights that brave men have died for and we ought not to surrender them to an unaccountable bureaucracy. If the Criminal Justice system does not work then we have to reform it, not dispense with it.
"We need to protect our client base...our fans and our sponsors", goes their argument and it's the only basis for the firings/suspensions etc.
The Colin K. incident reveals though that to be a contrived falsehood and misrepresentation. Significant chunks of The NFL client base and "giving" sponsers have been alienated by Colin K's actions and yet the NFL does nothing.
So take "brand protection" off the table as a basis for judging a man, abridging his right and assuming (and obviating) the role of the criminal justice system while The NFL hierarchy adopt the role of the Red Queen:
"Off with his head, sentence now verdict later" And The Mad Hatter and The Cheshire cat grin their grin.
This is dangerous stuff and akin in many ways to the lynchings in the south and the firing of homosexuals in the north on the basis of the de jour social flavour of the moment.
If the tone and tint is different, the abridgement of "innocent until proven guilty by a trial of his peers", is not and we are all poorer and all at risk when the NFL cancels constitutional rights and imperiously decides to replace the criminal justice system.
It's unfortunate that his response would generate a backlash and he felt like he needed to walk it back.
Now that he has admitted it, and the facts are there, then cut him if you like. But don't just cut him on a rumor.
And of course any business has the right to fire someone if their actions harm their brand.
It's fine to stir the pot when it comes to the best player on the team and the guy who has played a large role in reinvigorating your own career having too many on field feelings while everyone in the media is absolutely crushing him, but doing anything but staying silent over a serial wife beating kicker after voluntarily taking a significant public stance against domestic abuse is a bridge too far.
you must be joking "a bridge too far", Eli was asked about Beckham and his nonsense. If he's asked about Brown I am sure he will reply appropriately. Beckham brought all that crap on himself with his ridiculous behavior.
It's fine to stir the pot when it comes to the best player on the team and the guy who has played a large role in reinvigorating your own career having too many on field feelings while everyone in the media is absolutely crushing him, but doing anything but staying silent over a serial wife beating kicker after voluntarily taking a significant public stance against domestic abuse is a bridge too far.
What a dumb comment...world class soap box material. Nobody knows the full involvement of Brown's actions. It's appearing like they were reprehensible, but to get on Eli for not publicly admonishing him and denouncing actions he doesnt evenknow about yet is horse shit.
Eli's responsibility is to comment on football regarding his teammates. Not their personal lives.
It's fine to stir the pot when it comes to the best player on the team and the guy who has played a large role in reinvigorating your own career having too many on field feelings while everyone in the media is absolutely crushing him, but doing anything but staying silent over a serial wife beating kicker after voluntarily taking a significant public stance against domestic abuse is a bridge too far.
What an inane comparison.
djm : 10/21/2016 9:38 am : link : reply
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To now jump on Eli it's amazing how ignorant people can
really be ...