This is news: the arrest rate of NFL players is down
Why is this news? Is this something to be proud of? As the article itself states, a single arrest is one too many, and the fact that this is even a story in the first place is just another reminder of just how much of a problem it is that there are all these football players with too much money and privilege acting like they’re above the law and finding out the wrong way that they’re not.
But whatever though, it’s not like it’s new knowledge that the NFL is garbage these days, and they should be looking to celebrate and champion any and every little thing that might possibly be construed as a massive victory, like the fact that fewer of their players are getting arrested; or as I’d like to phrase it, fewer NFL players are actually getting caught at being the shitheads that so many of them are.
Frankly, if they’re crediting stiffer punishments as reason why arrests are down, imagine how much faster they’ll drop if the punishments got even stiffer? In the world outside of the pampered world of professional athletes, if a guy got arrested for drunk and disorderly, or worse, sexual assault, they’d get fired on the spot and their lives would likely be ruined. But NFL players just get slaps on the wrist and suspended for a few games in a sport that plays 16 games a year. I’d bet money that if the NFL punished players like the real world punished citizens, the arrest rate would drop even more than it has over the last 10 years.
It doesn’t matter if you’re Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck or Ezekiel Elliott or Josh Norman. Get arrested, void of contract, full-year suspension, or just cut outright, and have to earn your way back. Fuck anyone who breaks the law for whatever stupid and selfish reason, and punish them all the same and indiscriminately, like ordinary people.
It’s funny because the NFL already makes it easy as possible for players to stay out of trouble. To help mitigate all the DUIs that players get:
Last year, the players union announced a partnership with Lyft in which active players would be eligible to receive $250 in ride credits.
AKA the players all get $250 in free Lyft credits. Imagine if employer gave all employees free Lyft or Uber credits? It’s kind of like they’re accepting that their employees are drunk shitheads who like to go out and get smashed too regularly, so we’ll at least to get them home without getting arrested. Fuck no, in the real world, people are expected to be responsible adults in charge of their own actions, and nobody gets free rideshares to basically enable bad behavior, as long as you don’t have to drive yourselves.
Like I said though, the NFL is such a joke when it comes to player conduct, that I guess it’s understandable why this is news. You have to learn to walk before you can run, and in the case of the NFL, they have crawl before they can even take baby steps towards improving their shitty image of a league full of idiots always on the cusp of being criminals who can’t control their behavior. They should get a pizza party for all their “improvement!”
