Suspend Tank Johnson of the Chicago Bears?? Cut Tank Johnson?? Ethics? Morals?? Therapy?? Structure?? Discipline?? What the hell are you talking about??!
This is the NFL! So this one NFL player had a friend who was a convicted felon & was staying at Tank Johnson’s house, had assault rifles & guns all over house, 2 oz. of dope, 6 pit bulls caged up and neighbors complaining about noise, dope smoking and neglected animals. This is the NFL! You want to win, baby! You’ll do it by any means necessary!
Oh these sportswriters & sportscasters, PLEASE. All of the sudden, they get on their high horse and tell us to banish Tank Johnson (even tho his friend got most of the charges) off the face of the Earth. Meanwhile, Bears management is all pissed off, because the Bears are “such a high character team”. Who the **** do you get off getting all high and mighty? You act like the fans actually respect NFL players. The best player on your team [Brian Urlacher] engaged in an interracial affair with a career scam artist known for suing and extorting people; decided to have our best player knock her up right after he signed a huge multi-million contract. The issue now is visitation rights and all that ****, which of course our best player got the long end of the stick ‘cause he’s got the money. Such high class indeed. I guess pre-marital relations are lesser moral issues than having guns and drugs around the two young children in the house.
You management types, you sports columnists, you ex-jock hacks. You act like every single athlete comes from a rich & strong Christian moral background with manners-galore. You keep trying to tell yourself that your league is filled up with these people, but the truth is, not even by a long shot. You know you have every undesirable element playing in your league, not mention all the cheating going on. Morals have no place in sports, and don’t try thinking it ever does.
Does it REALLY make sense to ruin your Super Bowl chances just because a player lives the way he does? What sense does that make? It’s like, “Oh we want to win the Super Bowl, but only if our players are nice enough.” What a crock of ****. Who are you trying to fool? And do you really think that’s really going to make a difference, or teach anyone a lesson? And you know who gets ****ed over in the process? The fans. The fans who follow the team and pay for the tickets. If I was a ticket holder, I’d be fuming & mad as hell if the team started suspending guys for outside offenses that had nothing to do with football…that’s for the courts to decide, not the League. Keep in mind, if you’re a ticket holder, you’re spending 10’s of thousands of dollars for your seat. “Oh here I am sitting in my seat, 60 rows back! Oh! I guess the team’s star running back won’t be playing today because he farted in the wrong direction at Church! Oh well! It’s a good decision!! La la la la la ….”
The truth of the matter is: athletes are NOT to be role models. They are people hired to do a job. If you want to make some half-assed gesture on suspending a guy when the team is 5-7, fine, whatever. But if your team is 11-2, seriously think for a second. Why should the players & the fans be punished for someone else’s actions that had nothing to do with football, just because management decided to play the Morals Card. The only lesson you’re teaching is the Front Office really doesn’t give a **** about winning. The NFL is a multi-billion dollar industry, and we shouldn’t be looking to Front Offices teaching us about ethics and morals.
You win by any means necessary. Nice guys finish last.
edit: Upon review: after a scary near-loss to the Bucs & a dreadful OT, I hope this 34-31 game wakes up management and realize that they need Tank Johnson on this team. 28 2nd-half points given up is unacceptable. It's going to be a very short playoff run. The Defense is NOT that deep!
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