Eventually this issue would get tackled here, so with Chris Henry getting caught driving with a suspended license, vehicle impounded, you know, just normal every month stuff for him, it's time to mention it.
Henry and Pacman Jones both have given the sport a "black eye", and you know what? It's time to stop. Henry specifically should have been more harshly punished for his providing minors with alcohol in his hotel room, that's worse than any drug, steroid, or traffic stop other than a DUI with a real alcohol content (.08 is nothing for a real man, try .15 or .2, that's a real DUI). An NFL player, using his fame and fortune to get underage kids drunk and, GASP, I bet he planned or did have sex with some of them. For that to get public, and with his history of pot charges, vehicle charges, whatever else I don't feel like looking up now, he should have gotten a year suspension.
There's how you police your league. What would happen to Dumbass Jones if Henry had gotten a year, and then Dumbass pulled that stunt in Vegas? He'd be gone a year, nobody would argue it because of the precedence, and the rest of the players would understand that when they mess up, there will be financial and playing time related repercussions, not what happens now where steroids are punished, and everything else is looked the other way. It's not a thug league, it's not a race thing (Kerry Collins comes to mind, go PSU!) but it is a problem that has festered due to the league trying to sweep character issues under the rug. It's the leagues fault they're in a tough spot with Dumbass, time to take a stand and put him and Henry on the sideline for a year.
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Couldn't agree more...the fact that the NFL and alot of the pro sports leagues allow players to act like jackasses off the field and then not punish them accordingly is why people view so many of these guys as thugs. 99% of them are good people. It's the 1% who are idiots who make everyone else look bad.
Jones and Henry should be out...and not for the year, for life. Right along with haynesworth from the titans. The guy stomped on the head of a player, without a helmet on the bottom of a scrum. Are you kidding me?
The reason why these guys don't get banned for life is because some of these guys are on coke and meth(on and off the field) and they don't want them to go public because in some cases, it may not be possible for the league to claim plausible deniability. Case in point: Shockey in the Playoffs running through ten guys w/out a helmet, and managing to get a few yards before he went down. That dude was tweaked the fuck out!
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Forgot Haynesworth, though he got a 5 gamer, which by NFL standards is apparently a big suspension. The league is a joke, but laughing alllll the way to the bank
In regards to Haynesworth: Costas had the correct take on it right from the beginning. That was not a dirty play. That was Assault-plain and simple. He should have been arrested and banned from the league. He knew exactly what he was doing. He thought about it before he did it. He's a piece of shit and should be banned from the game if not possibly locked up for six mos-year.
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