Fighting in professional sports

Because in other sports the fans aren't as close to the field/court/ice as they are in basketball.

Meanwhile, while everybody is raising a fuss about the Knicks-Nuggets brawl, Tank Johnson gets arrested on 6 counts of illegal weapons possession for having a small arsenal in his house, his body guard (why the fuck does an NFL lineman need a body guard?) gets shot at 3 a.m. Saturday outside some thug club...and the Bears say, oh yeah, he's playing Sunday. We don't think he did anything wrong.

Nine Bengals players have been arrested this season ... I believe 8 of them were playing last night.

Why do the NFL criminals skate while NBA players who have an on-court fight get cruicified?

 

Excellent point, especially for the goofball who did bring race into this.

I agree that the Tank Johnson situation is a lot more disturbing than the Knicks-Nuggets brawl. Though I do understand the bodyguard thing. I think you might need somebody just to keep yourself out of fights and other problematic situations.

Hey, Joey Porter doesn't look like somebody I'd want to mess with, either, but he sure could have used somebody watching his back when he got shot in the ass a few years back.

I'm just not sure why these things are handled so differently, except maybe the NFL's ability to control the media better than other sports.

 

Someone in SI (Phil Taylor maybe) went through this with the NBA getting a bad rap on this compared to the other sports. I think a big part of it is that the NBA by it's nature (or the way it's evolved - combination), is far more focused on the players individually (only 12, 5 at a time, not hats or helmets) as opposed to the team oriented NFL. If the QB gets arrested, we'll know.

 

We always know who gets arrested, guy.
The problem is the NFL doesn't do anything about it and as oop said the media has their heads up the NFL's collective ass and let's it all slide because those big bad coaches will cut off access if you write something bad about how they pander to their thugs.

Seriously, TO spitting on someone got more attention than Tank Johnson and his stash of guns. WTF?

 

Ummm, spnited, the Bears suspended Johnson before the night club thing ever happened. He didn't play Sunday.

 

Well, doc, that's why I get for believing an ESPN report that he was going to play.

 

Had it been TO with the guns & Tank spitting, they'd have focused on the guns, for the same reason that PAris Hilton makes news blowing her nose, and the local murders are listed on page 25.

 

TO doesn't wear underwear?

 

Well played...though that's not a mental image any of us wanted.

 

Because you can see all the NBA players' tattoos and cornrows!!

 

I was trying to ignore that particular post.

 

There is more fighting in the NBA than there is in an NHL game these days.