I've been to exactly one NFL football game in the last 10 years... a Washington Redskins game that didn't have a happy ending. Still, even I can rattle off names like Pacman Jones, Chris Henry, Tank Johnson... and not because of anything they did on the field. Some fifty NFL players got themselves arrested in the last 15 months or so... on charges related to guns, drugs, assault, vandalism, drunk driving, etc, etc, etc (there's a whole website dedicated to players' bad behavior). To crack down, the league came up with tougher rules... including lifetime bans on repeat offenders and even penalties against teams for the off-field mayhem of their players. And this weekend it's game time... the NFL draft will put the new rules to the test, in theory. Will teams change the way they pick players? Most say they will. But, if the scoreboard is in your teams favor at the end of the fourth quarter, do you care that the all-star defensive back shoots up a nightclub in his off-time?

categories: Cutting Room Floor

8:27 - April 25, 2007

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