Some people adopt
extreme Second Amendment positions. For
me, it’s more the First and Fourteenth (due process, but you knew that already). If players want to kneel before a game, let
them because they have the right. If
players who haven’t been charged with a crime want to play, let them because
anything else would be a denial of due process.
If players engage in behavior that threatens the game itself, punish
accordingly, just as long as their right to due process is respected. And by “accordingly” I mean feel free to
throw the book at them.
Take Raiders’ running
back Marshawn Lynch, for instance. Lynch
has been suspended one game without pay for shoving an official during Thursday
night’s Oakland-Kansas City game. Sorry,
you can’t do that. In fact, not only is
a suspension in order, but the official should pursue criminal charges if he
feels his safety was put at risk.
What Lynch did happened
at work, which is a whole different ballgame than off the field.
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