Felony on Two... Hut, Hut

Ray Rice is a professional football player for the Baltimore Ravens. He is considered a marquee player. He is married.

Mr. Rice and his then girlfriend are shown going into an elevator. When it reaches it's destination, the door opens and she is dragged, by ol' Ray, unconscious from the elevator. Now, I have been on a couple of elevators. I have never been knocked out by one... So, it is very probable that Rice beat her to the point of unconsciousness.

So... Spousal abuse will get you a whopping TWO game suspension. Alleged rape? Like that of Ben Rapistberger from the Steelers? FOUR games. Kill your teammate whilst out drinking and driving? Cowboys are still hopeful for Josh Brent to come back to the team! He did his 135 days!

Smoke a joint? YOU WILL MISS A SEASON!

Rape and murder??? Tsk tsk! Drugs??? BURN!!!

If you want to here a professional go off, professionally, KO did it nice the other night...

If you really want to understand what a great many of you will be cheering come this fall, imagine if you will, that when they do the player intros when starting offenses and defenses take the field... There is new stat columns (Hell, it would be a screen unto itself)... Criminal Record. You could break it up into Felonies, Misdemeanors, Time Served, Fines Paid... Oh, the stat fiends would lose their collective shit.

The special treatment of "star athletes" is fostered from early on. The local legend from my small town in Kansas was that the high school starting QB, Larry Something or Another, was allegedly drunk and allegedly hit a cop car with his car... I think he played the next Friday... NOW, if my long haired, bad attitude having self were to have SNEEZED on a cop car, I am willing to bet that a "warning", would have come in "shot" form.

I was married once (thrice actually) to a high school Chemistry teacher. She did a stretch out near Midland. They take their football quite seriously out that way. Ex-Cowboys wide receiver, Roy Williams, came out of that area. Texas schools instituted a "No Pass No Play" rule back in the day. Guess who "passed" Chemistry? Roy Williams! Now, if'n I were a betting man, I would put money down that the guy could not even SPELL chemistry.

So, from the high school days, certain kids are taught that rules do not apply to them. The only thing that increases is the amount of money and the seriousness of the crimes committed.

Albert Haynesworth was playing for the Titans, and he jolly stomped a Cowboys player's helmet-less head. The play was OVER. The cut from Al's cleats netted the Cowboy 30 stitches. Haynesworth got a FIVE game suspension.

That is called "Aggrivated Assault". The NFL labelled it "Detrimental Conduct".

Ndamukong Suh - All American!!! Has repeatedly been criticized for his "aggressive style" - and "idiocy" on the field. Only been suspended for 2 games for kicking a guy. Has been fined for $216K. Wow...

Here is his contract... 5 years/ $63.5 MILLION. $23.5 MILLION is GUARANTEED.

$500K... Yeah... That has got to fucking sting. Say you had $23.50... And you did something uncool... Seriously dick move... And someone said you should cough up fifty cents... Two quarters... Would that deter you from doing it again?

Micheal Vick... Fuck him. Everybody can jump on the bandwagon all they want... "But he paid his dues and he did his time." Yeah, how many other CONVICTED DOG KILLERS do you welcome into your house on Sundays? He was sorry... for getting caught. I still don't think he realizes or thinks he did wrong. So it is easy for him to say he is sorry and what he did is wrong. The NFL's response, TWO game suspension. Ouch.

I think I have had enough of the NFL. I still can't support Chik Fil A for using their own money to fund hate, so I will probably boycott and not patronize the NFL for supporting REWARDING evil fucks.

Sad, I used to love football.

More human than human,

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