This was a bad
week for the NFL with TMZ’s release of a video that shows Ray Rice knocking out
his fiancée with a blow to the head and the indictment of Adrian Peterson in
Texas for repeatedly hitting his four-year old son with a switch. But it would be wrong, sort of, to pile on
the NFL for all their bad apples. Think
Dennis Rodman and Barry Bonds, or Mike McGwire, even.
Athletes seem to
be misbehaving at an unprecedented rate.
That, or social media has been adept at providing an abundance of juicy pictures
and video. Practically no team is
immune, even my White Sox. We’ve been
more inclined to employ jerks, as in Albert Belle and Carl Everett. What bothers me is that the desire to win has
blinded fans to the transgressions of the players they root for, which encourages
teams to keep going after borderline criminals who have the slightest hint of
talent.
Blame the Ravens
for tolerating the likes of Rice, but what about their fans, especially all
those women who were wearing Rice jerseys at the Ravens-Steelers game on Thursday? What were they thinking, that domestic violence
doesn’t matter; Rice was framed; his fiancée had it coming? If this mindset is part of the cost of
winning in 2014, give me the 1962 Mets any day.
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