NFL - Are You Ready For Some Football?! - Off Season

[MRT144]

I didn't want to be the one to point out the ghetto mindset, so thanks.

Whats wrong with protecting yourself with a gun?

[Al B. Sure!]

Whats wrong with protecting yourself with a gun?

Yeah, Tex?

[-Jrabbit]

"Protecting yourself"?? How'd that work out for Plaxico?

Nothing wrong with owning a gun.
But illegally carrying is unnecessary and stupid.
And shooting yourself is monumentally idiotic.

Let your posse do that ****.

[SlowwHand]

Those things, plus having millions of dollars and still doing those things.

[ColdWizard]

Whats wrong with protecting yourself with a gun?

Fine if you're licensed to carry and know how to use it. Even then might be better to let the professionals do it.

[SlowwHand]

Exactly.

[Al B. Sure!]

Call Plax stupid... but he did nothing malicious and only harmed himself. I wouldn't put this in the same category of 'bad boy' behavior as some stuff other people have done.

Anyway I found this...

http://www.signonsandiego.com/nfl/arrests-database/

Database with all reported NFL arrests since 2000.

Just since the start of 2011

Honestly, if the league somehow prohibited players from drinking, the league would instantly be cleaned up... most of these also involved driving in some way.

Firearms, alcohol, and vehicles. The cause of all NFL legal woes.


3/12/2011 Chris Cook Minnesota CB Arrested in Virginia on suspicion of brandishing gun during fight.
3/4/2011 King Dunlap Philadelphia OT Arrested, charged with reckless driving and disorderly conduct in Nashville after allegedly driving his SUV onto sidewalk in front of Bridgestone Arena and refusing to move.
2/12/2011 Michael Bush Oakland RB Arrested, charged with DUI in Indiana after being pulled over at 3:47 a.m. Pleaded guilty to misdemeanor reckless driving, one year probation, 20 hours community service, $1,000 in fines.
2/12/2011 Legedu Naanee Chargers WR Arrested in Indianapolis, charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. Police said he came across crime scene and was told to leave but did not. Not tendered contract three weeks later.
2/9/2011 Kenny Britt Tennessee WR Criminal complaint filed against him alleging theft by deception. He allegedly failed his pledge to pay two bail bonds companies for friend arrested in January 2010.
2/2/2011 Albert Haynesworth Washington DL Charged with assault. Police say it was a road rage case and Haynesworth allegedly assaulted another driver. He was not arrested.
1/31/2011 Everson Griffen Minnesota DE Arrested on suspicion of felony battery. He allegedly assaulted police officer near USC campus.
1/29/2011 Everson Griffen Minnesota DE Arrested and charged with public intoxication in Hollywood.
1/17/2011 Laurence Maroney Denver RB Arrested after police found guns and drugs in car with four other men in St. Louis.


Everson Griffen was busy that last weekend in January in LA

[Ming]

I wish I could be a slave like Adrain...

The NFL labor situation is "modern-day slavery," according to Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson.

The running back's explosive comments were quoted in a Yahoo! Sports story last Friday, the same day the NFL Players Association decertified and the NFL owners subsequently locked out the players.

Peterson vented his anger about the owners refusing to open their financial books.

“It’s like . . . well, show us. We want more information, and they want to (expletive), going around, saying this and that, just open it up and give us the information we want,” Peterson told Yahoo! Sports shortly before the NFLPA’s decertification last Friday.

“. . . If they have nothing to hide, just give us the information. Why not? Obviously, there’s a lot to hide — these guys are professionals, and they’re maximizing what they do. But they know that if all this information comes out, the information the players want, it’ll be right out there for everyone to see. It’s a rip-off — not just for the players, but for the people who work at the concession stands and at the stadiums.”

But Peterson didn’t stop there. Many NFL players feel that they aren’t being treated as business partners, but Peterson chose a different term for the treatment.

“It’s modern-day slavery, you know?” Peterson said. “People kind of laugh at that, but there are people working at regular jobs who get treated the same way, too. With all the money . . . the owners are trying to get a different percentage, and bring in more money.”

Yahoo! writer Doug Farrar apparently removed Peterson’s comments for a time shortly after they were published. The quote already had spread across the Internet, however. Yahoo! included an editor's note Tuesday that said it was reaching out to Peterson for context to his comments.

“I don't think he meant it in the way it's going to come across, but the word itself is a problem,” Farrar said via his Twitter account.

What a ****ing moron... Just more proof that many sports stars have no clue about reality.

[Al B. Sure!]

I wish I could be a slave like Adrain...



What a ****ing moron... Just more proof that many sports stars have no clue about reality.

Well he is from Texas


Actually, I wouldn't be too harsh on 'sports stars having no clue about reality'. They're all very young. AP is 25 like me. You'd probably say I have no clue about reality either

[-Jrabbit]

If AP's scheduled $11,000,000 salary for 2011 is slavery, sign me up!

[Al B. Sure!]

If AP's scheduled $11,000,000 salary for 2011 is slavery, sign me up!

It's obvious ignorant hyperbole. I've heard worse from 50-year old politicians... I don't worry about what a 25 year old kid who's been on top of the world since he first learned how to play football says. Of course his perspective is out of whack. I've heard similarly stupid **** from other 20-somethings all the time and they don't have the benefit of vast amounts of money screwing with their heads.

[-Jrabbit]

Agreed.

[Al B. Sure!]

Well if there's a lockout, Hines Ward is working on something new

[Al B. Sure!]

Ochocinco is working on his lockout job:



He was at a tryout for the MLS Kansas City Wizards.

[-Jrabbit]

People in Chicago, notably Coach Lovie, are pretty unhappy with the new kickoff rule - moving the tee up to the 35 yd line. Lovie rarely says anything critical of the league, but he knows that, against strong kickers, this will take away one of the Bears' few consistent advantages - Devin "You Are Ridiculous" Hester. Lovie's comments:

“I can't believe we're really talking about it — the most exciting play in football,” Smith told reporters in New Orleans at the annual owners meetings. “You would think we would want to keep that in. We would (want to) work to try to make it safer whatever way that is. But to eliminate (kickoff returns) to me is just kind of tearing up the fiber of the game a little bit.

“We have a great returner, but that's a big part of the game. Our fans are probably more interested in coming there to see Devin Hester run a ball back, as opposed to a kicker kick it out of the end zone with no action. We're totally against the rule.”

Smith disputes the contention of the NFL's Competition Committee that an inordinate amount of serious injuries occur on kickoff returns.

“You wonder how did we get to this point?” Smith said. “Yeah, I'm biased. But talking with our trainers, the last couple of years, we've had one ankle sprain (combined on kickoff returns and kickoff coverage).

"I know we are talking about player safety, but I don't know if that's making the game safer by eliminating it. You can say that about every pass play, every play where there is a little bit of contact."

It seems a bit odd that the Competition Committee decided to go this route. Now teams will be able to overcome their lack of good coverage units by signing a guy with a big leg and simply punching the ball through the end zone. Beyond Hester and the Bears, my real objections are that the new rule takes away excitement from the viewer and reduces the strategic aspects of the game. Plus, it's another step toward the pussification of the game I love. It's a violent sport, dammit. THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE WATCH IT!