What is up with the NFL

[jtmaze]

What is up with the NFL. Having a great love for the game of football this is crazy. Aaron Hernandez signs a 40 million dollar contract gets in a bar fight then gets his boys together in the next couple of days and goes to the guys house in the middle of the night takes guy to nearby park and shoots him. Needless to say I took wife to the DR and have been suck watching Fox News all morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/26/former-new-england-patriot-aaron-hernandez-charged-with-murder/

[Oh Shoot]

What is up with the NFL. Having a great love for the game of football this is crazy. Aaron Hernandez signs a 40 million dollar contract gets in a bar fight then gets his boys together in the next couple of days and goes to the guys house in the middle of the night takes guy to nearby park and shoots him. Needless to say I took wife to the DR and have been suck watching Fox News all morning.

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/26/former-new-england-patriot-aaron-hernandez-charged-with-murder/

 

The Patriots sure dropped him like they were holding a live cobra.

 

It was reported  there's some kind of insurance policy from which they can collect around 80% of his contract.

 

- OS

[Guest nra37922]

Character issues dropped him into the 4th rd of the draft.  Shame but some just don't or won't give up the gangsta lifestyle.  He could be useful to go around to schools and talk about his life and how he screwed it up, if convicted.

[peejman]

Big pile of cash in the bank and lots of free time.... what else is a thug to do?  It's not called the National Felons League for nothing.

 

 

Character issues dropped him into the 4th rd of the draft.  Shame but some just don't or won't give up the gangsta lifestyle.  He could be useful to go around to schools and talk about his life and how he screwed it up, if convicted.

 

 

He could also be useful by being a temporary resister in an electric circuit. 

[leroy]

It's a commentary on pop culture. Thuggery crosses all socio-economic strata.    Looks like the NFL let this one slide thru the cracks and missed screening him.  After he gets out of the big house (...if he goes, lots of money...); as others have opined, he could have a future on the "rubber chicken" circuit talikin about "wrong decisions".  Remember, ganstas is gangstas.

 

leroy

[JWC]

Wish the Titans would pick him up. He could probably play a full season before he goes to trial.

[Chucktshoes]

Now he is being looked at for a 2012 double murder.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/27/aaron-hernandez-2012-murder-investigation_n_3510977.html

[BigK]

A guy at work following this story more closely than me said he'd been trying to "get out of the gang, but they wouldn't let him". He apparently says he tried to buy his way out, but the gang wanted his time instead. Sounded like an invitation to his pity party to me.

[TripleDigitRide]

As the old saying goes, "You can take the thug out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug."

 

Many of these guys spend much of their childhood and young adult lives being the stars of their communities. As youngsters, their negative behavior is often more easily overlooked because of their superior athletic abilities. This is especially true once they reach the age where they start making money for the teams they're playing for.

 

I've always found it fascinating how many of these guys somehow become college graduates (thanks to basket weaving classes), yet they continue to talk like they have a mouth full of marbles. It doesn't take but a few seconds into an interview to realize they can hardly put two coherent words together, much less a complete sentence. 

 

Then there's the fact that many of them grow up poor. Handing a multi-million-dollar check to someone who has lived much of their life hand-to-mouth is asking for trouble. Hell, my parents did alright, and I couldn't imagine being given that kind of money in my early-20's. I'd like to think I could have managed a little better than some of these guys, but who knows.

[Mike.357]

Big pile of cash in the bank and lots of free time.... what else is a thug to do?  It's not called the National Felons League for nothing.

 

 

 

 

never heard the phrase National Felons League before.  The vast overwhelming majority of NFL players are law abiding.  The few who are criminals get all the headlines in the off season.

[Smith]

Have we noticed that nearly every time one of these professional athletes or celebs gets in trouble the story usually starts with something along the lines of "following an altercation at a night club..."?

[Guest ThePunisher]

The colleges are complicit to this thuggery as well as the NFL, when they reduced their college entrance standards forty years ago so that they would not be called racist institutions. The NFL and NBA should have never allowed athletes early enterance to their leagues until after four years of college participation. Raise standards for everyone and you reduce chances of everyone rotting from the core and smelling bad. Edited June 28, 2013 by ThePunisher

[Guest nra37922]

Question:

 

If Herandez is found guilty and sent to prison.   Will he still be able to play tight end or will he become a wide receiver in the Prison Football League?

[peejman]

never heard the phrase National Felons League before.  The vast overwhelming majority of NFL players are law abiding.  The few who are criminals get all the headlines in the off season.

 

I somewhat liken it to the general view of lawyers (present company excepted)... 99% give the rest a bad name.  That's not true, but it sure seems like they get in more than their fair share of trouble.  And when they do, it's rarely minor.   Heck, my sister used to babysit Rob Bironas's kids and she's met several other players and found them to be perfectly nice guys. 

 

 

Have we noticed that nearly every time one of these professional athletes or celebs gets in trouble the story usually starts with something along the lines of "following an altercation at a night club..."?

 

Right.  With as much money as they've got, they could afford to bring the nightclub to their house and avoid the complications. 

[BigK]

Question:
 
If Herandez is found guilty and sent to prison.   Will he still be able to play tight end or will he become a wide receiver in the Prison Football League?

He'll be back in a 3-point stance in no time, hoping for a prevent defense.

[Garufa]

Didn't Hernandez play for Florida?

[Guest nra37922]

Didn't Hernandez play for Florida?

Yes with Tebow

[Il Duce]

Didn't Hernandez play for Florida?

And he was a hell of a player there too.

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[chances R]

NFL players want to be gangstras.....and the gangstras want to be NFL players.  Throw them all together and expand the league.

[Guest ThePunisher]

And he was a hell of a player there too.

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He was also a gangster there too.

[bubbiesdad]

Question:

 

If Herandez is found guilty and sent to prison.   Will he still be able to play tight end or will he become a wide receiver in the Prison Football League?

 

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[Mike.357]

Allan you can't seriously support this guy just because he played at UF can you?  

 

UF ought to erase his stats

[Il Duce]

No I don't support him at all. I was just saying he was one talented guy on the field. Sadly he wasted his opportunity and will be using his ball handling skills in prison.

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[Il Duce]

Allan you can't seriously support this guy just because he played at UF can you?

UF ought to erase his stats

Im thinking of going down to Gainesville for the game this year and I will go to the trophy room and see if his stuff is still displayed.

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[Rowdy]

Have we noticed that nearly every time one of these professional athletes or celebs gets in trouble the story usually starts with something along the lines of "following an altercation at a night club..."?

Exactly. ^ It usually is reported like this: "...was involved in a shooting outside a strip club." You never hear about an athlete involved in a shooting outside a library. Why is that?