Sean Taylor - RIP UPDATED

[Simon_Cowbell]

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

From the guy who would have every extremity amputated with rusty cutlery before entertaining the notion of the electric chair being any sort of deterrent, we get this crapola.

 

[Herbert Anchovy]

it's not all gangstas and ho's and he knows it

Doubtful.

 

[jgmacg]

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

From the guy who would have every extremity amputated with rusty cutlery before entertaining the notion of the electric chair being any sort of deterrent, we get this crapola.

So you're saying the NFL isn't a violent culture?

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

From the guy who would have every extremity amputated with rusty cutlery before entertaining the notion of the electric chair being any sort of deterrent, we get this crapola.

From a guy who's never pursued a coherent thought past the point where he gets distracted by his toes we get this crapola.
Life is full of ironies.

 

[Flash]

LeBatard says it's all your fault ... and draws the Favre comparison, too ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/1246/story/324931.html

 

[IU90]

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

C'mon, FB, you're completely dismissive of Whitlock's arguments, yet you're quite willing to entertain one that blames the sport of football?

Both theories paint with an overly broad brush, but I'd say the one which points its finger at the influence of a corruptive culture that glamorizes self-destructive values hits closer to the truth than the one which blames a game.

The Marvin Harrisons, Warrick Dunns, Mannings, and Barber brothers of the football world don't find these problems; the Pacmans, Tanks, Lewises, and Vicks do. Whether you'll acknowledge it or not, there are some fairly obvious distinctions, in terms of the type of friends and cultural influences they surround themselves with, that tends to separate the players who find off-field trouble from those who don't. And the distinguishing factor ain't football.

Which, of course, is not to say that hip hop is inherently bad, or that all players who immerse themselves in its culture are prone to off-court trouble. Obviously that's not the case. But you can't deny that a pattern exists without being intentionally obtuse about this issue.

 

[heyabbott]

LeBatard says it's all your fault ... and draws the Favre comparison, too ...

http://www.miamiherald.com/1246/story/324931.html

fork Danny. He's a taint licking apologist. I can't imagine anything he writes has a shred of credibility with anyone who isn't having his story read to him through the Plexiglas windows of a prison visiting room.

 

[wickedwritah]

I wonder how much of this gossip Le Batard has engaged in on his radio show.

 

[beefncheddar]

But there are times when being a journalist in today's climate embarrasses me.

Oh. WE embarrass YOU. Now that's forking priceless.

 

[BBJones]

So it's hip-hop's fault? I'm no fan of hip-hop, nor do I know much about it's message. But if I had to guess (and this is just a guess; I have no links or research), it would be that white kids buy more of that stuff than black kids. When will they start killing people?

The root of the Wild West nature in the black community, at least as purported by people like Whitlock and his ridiculous "Black KKK" notion, I would guess, stems from a lack of family structure.

 

[Simon_Cowbell]

this story is about football players - and the kind of mentality it takes to play a violent game - and why that mentality leads to violence off the field

What on earth is this about? You complained about Whitlock using a broad brush and then this? And what does this have to do with anything?

And how many Presidents played football in either high school or college?

You can play the game violently, but playing the game does not make you violent.

Oh, I think there are more than a few studies, and a whole potful of anecdotal evidence, that what is required to play football at the highest levels is a powerful inducement to become a violent person.

From the guy who would have every extremity amputated with rusty cutlery before entertaining the notion of the electric chair being any sort of deterrent, we get this crapola.

So you're saying the NFL isn't a violent culture?

Violent people certainly find a home in the NFL.

But ... pro football is an "inducement" to become violent? No forking way.

A grand majority of NFL alumni, even among only the black members, are citizens who have never hurt a soul except for between the lines potentially.

 

[Flash]

But there are times when being a journalist in today's climate embarrasses me.

Oh. WE embarrass YOU. Now that's forking priceless.

Yeah ... certainly a touch of irony there, eh?