NFL Players Abuse

gonnab · ‎03-10-2010

I am not a football fan and, therefore, don't follow it nor do I know the players. As an outsider, I am curious. It seems to me that the pattern of physical abuse appears to be common and we are now finding out more about it. I find this to be disturbing. Has this impacted your views of the game? And do you now watch less than before?

Luv2Decorate · ‎03-12-2010

No it won't change my love of the game. We watched 10 hours of football yesterday and the games were great. Go Lions!

We subscribe to the NFL network and the Red Zone, it's so fun., and I'm on a fantasy football league, which is a riot! ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

I don't think this scandal involves the actual sport...

But I don't like the league and it's inconsistent leaders. At all!

Buck-i-Nana · ‎09-28-2010

There are hundreds of professional football players. It's a given that there will be bad apples, as with any other sport or profession. I love football and that will not change, and don't understand condemning an entire sport because of the failures of management and a few bad apples. With the high visibility now, some changes for the better in expectations by management for on-field AND off-field behavior will be a good thing.

brii · ‎06-20-2010

There are 1800 professional football players. Not all of them are abusers.

I do think if players are committing crimes, they should be dealt with. The league and its sponsors are more than willing to sweep this under the rug.

Football fans are football fans. These scandals won't impact the NFL at all.

Junebug54 · ‎03-09-2010

On 9/22/2014 Luv2Decorate said:
No it won't change my love of the game. We watched 10 hours of football yesterday and the games were great. Go Lions!

We subscribe to the NFL network and the Red Zone, it's so fun., and I'm on a fantasy football league, which is a riot! ${#emotions_dlg.thumbup}$

Ditto in our house!! I will also add (in the risk of being slammed) that I don't think that the NFL should have to be the watchdog of all the players. They aren't children for goodness sake. Let the legal system do its job. Even my husband doesn't agree with me on this one LOL...

hckynut · ‎03-10-2010

On 9/22/2014 gonnab said:
I am not a football fan and, therefore, don't follow it nor do I know the players. As an outsider, I am curious. It seems to me that the pattern of physical abuse appears to be common and we are now finding out more about it. I find this to be disturbing. Has this impacted your views of the game? And do you now watch less than before?

I am not a fan of Professional football, nor do I follow it.

Physical abuse by football players outside of football games is a smaller percentage than it is in the population at large. Sure, when the focus is on people well known to the public, as are many professional athletes, it is going to appear this is more specific to their trade than in the general population.

All one need do is go and look through "public records" and see the number of "physical abuse allegations and/or charges" in their county and they will see this is a problem with the whole or our society.

The only football I have watched for many years now is Division I College Football, and more specifically, the Nebraska Cornhusker games.

hckynut(john)

Lila Belle · ‎01-24-2013

No one knows that the # is smaller. Not every incidence of abuse is reported.

straykatz · ‎03-09-2010

I don't think all football players are abusive but I do think the NFL league has been too lenient towards it.

I also want to add that domestic violence is all around us....right now it's in the forefront because of the NFL but once they get it right then I hope it doesn't go away....this subject should no longer be hushed up or swept under the rug....it's not going to go away and it's time these abusers realize there are serious consequences for thier inability to control their anger.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

On 9/22/2014 hckynut said:
On 9/22/2014 gonnab said:
I am not a football fan and, therefore, don't follow it nor do I know the players. As an outsider, I am curious. It seems to me that the pattern of physical abuse appears to be common and we are now finding out more about it. I find this to be disturbing. Has this impacted your views of the game? And do you now watch less than before?

I am not a fan of Professional football, nor do I follow it.

Physical abuse by football players outside of football games is a smaller percentage than it is in the population at large. Sure, when the focus is on people well known to the public, as are many professional athletes, it is going to appear this is more specific to their trade than in the general population.

All one need do is go and look through "public records" and see the number of "physical abuse allegations and/or charges" in their county and they will see this is a problem with the whole or our society.

The only football I have watched for many years now is Division I College Football, and more specifically, the Nebraska Cornhusker games.

I, too, grew up with Nebraska football. My sisters & I lived in the dorm where they provided a special dining room for the football players. They're treated like gods there....not a healthy environment. That sense of entitlement begins at an early age to a professional setting.

News alert: next to professional cycling, College Football is one of the dirtiest sports out there.