NFL (No-more Focking Lawyers), please

**mudflap4874** · June 19th, 2006, 02:48 PM

Is it just me or is anyone else tired of seeing every other headline about NFL players getting arrested for one thing or another ...

1. Steelers rookie WR Holmes arrested again
2. Browns RB Droughns apologizes for arrest
3. Legal case settled, but Redskins' Taylor still has an attitude
4. Maurice Drew: Will Miss Workouts Due to Legal Issues
5. Henry pleads innocent to latest charges
6. Charges against Haynesworth now dismissed in second county

I'm a huge fan of NFL and College football but these guys are just way out of control. Do we need to bring back Susan Powter to STOP THE INSANITY?!

(susan powter reference thanks to re-runs of fresh prince of bel-air)

**lukebeulah** · June 19th, 2006, 02:54 PM

I think that most of these guys believe that they are bigger than life. They have been raised to play football, probably loved it when they were younger. They hit the big time and are viewed as football gods. Then they can do anything they want.

I love watching football but get really sick about how great these guys think they are. Then they want a ton of money to do it.

Makes me think of that scene from Mr. Deeds when he fires the quarterback for being an asshole.

**mudflap4874** · June 19th, 2006, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by lukebeulah

Then they want a ton of money to do it.

I think that's a big part of the driving force as to why they do what they do. They have all this money - though they claim it's not enough to feed the family - don't know what to do with it, attract less than dignified "friends" and then end up getting themselves into trouble.

Give me the league minimum to play and I'll work my ass off to be the best player I can be. I loved playing and I'd do anything to kick one of those felons out to the curb and take their locker space.

**l00k** · June 19th, 2006, 03:58 PM

I don't think I like the idea of this thread.

**lukebeulah** · June 19th, 2006, 04:08 PM

probably should be moved to the lounge!! Mod intervention....

**mudflap4874** · June 19th, 2006, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by l00k

I don't think I like the idea of this thread.

Please explain ...

**Gman1524** · June 19th, 2006, 06:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mudflap4874

Please explain ...

He's a lawyer. Bwahahaha.

**Insex** · June 20th, 2006, 02:12 AM

NFL League Minumum ~ $300,000.00 per year.

Hell! I used to play football just for free, and these guys cry about not getting their extra million-dollar signing bonuses? Football dominated my life for 12 years, I would go and be anyone's personal tackling bag for 6-digits a year!

**mudflap4874** · June 21st, 2006, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Gman1524

He's a lawyer. Bwahahaha.

Oooooooohhhhhh - I wasn't intending any disrespect towards lawyers, just that I would rather see the players on the field instead of in court ...

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Originally Posted by Insex

NFL League Minumum ~ $300,000.00 per year.

Hell! I used to play football just for free, and these guys cry about not getting their extra million-dollar signing bonuses? Football dominated my life for 12 years, I would go and be anyone's personal tackling bag for 6-digits a year!

Exactamundo!! Can't get any clearer than that ...

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**mavgrad99** · October 18th, 2006, 09:13 PM

True dat... Im sure the lawyers for the Bengals are making a shitload right about now.

**eqpfunk** · October 18th, 2006, 10:25 PM

I'm pretty much with you guys. I love football but hate most of the athletes. Buncha self righteous, egotistical FOCKS!

**mudflap4874** · November 13th, 2006, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by eqpfunk

I'm pretty much with you guys. I love football but hate most of the athletes. Buncha self righteous, egotistical FOCKS!

Funny that this thread still lingers ... I was reading this weeks Sports Illustrated (with Ray Lewis on the cover) and the article about him says how he has become such a religious man and how much he has changed since his 2000 stabbing incident outside that club in Atlanta.

eqpfunk, i give you this advice - don't read that article cuz you'll just want to rip someone's head off. It is all such a load of bulls---. Lewis preaches to the churches in Baltimore sending the message out to treat women like queens and then goes and blesses his teammates with his consecrated oil. It's such a farce anymore to consider these guys role models.

Is Sir Charles Barkley the only one who really gets it?