{"id":43252,"date":"2016-09-18T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=43252"},"modified":"2020-07-24T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T18:37:25","slug":"hashtag-nflol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=43252","title":{"rendered":"Hashtag NFLOL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only in the NFL<\/a>: Darren Sharper nominated for the NFL Hall of Fame; the same Darren Sharper who is currently in prison on an 18-year sentence for having drugged and raped upwards of 16 women<\/span><\/p>\n

This wasn\u2019t the screengrab I really wanted for this post, but apparently in the 21st<\/sup> century, replay footage of Sportscenter is seemingly impossible despite being a digital medium.\u00a0 But this screen grab is close enough to what I saw on television, laughable at its absurdity that it\u2019s actually true: a convicted rapist has been nominated to the \u201challowed\u201d football Hall of Fame.<\/span><\/p>\n

No doubt, he won\u2019t make it, regardless of his statistics and his participation in the Saints\u2019 Super Bowl win in 2010.\u00a0 But the fact of the matter is that someone, who will in all likelihood remain anonymous because they don\u2019t want to be outed as an imbecile for nominating a convicted felon, actually looked at the ballot in front of them, saw Darren Sharper\u2019s name and thought \u201cyeah, that\u2019s a Hall of Famer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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I know this spawns all sorts of debate between the line that divides personal lives and character from the body of work of a professional athlete, but frankly I don\u2019t believe that one should be considered without the other, when it comes to something like Halls of Fames.\u00a0 HOFs are supposed<\/em> to be the best of the best, and sometimes I have a hard time believing someone is really the best, if\/when they are actually tremendous assholes, personally.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there\u2019s being an asshole, and then there\u2019s being a convicted felon.\u00a0 Sure, O.J. Simpson is pretty much a murderer, but he was already in the HOF when he was put in the clink for armed robbery and whatever else he did that wasn\u2019t a convicted murder, so he\u2019s like a grandfather clause case.\u00a0 But the present is as good as time as any for football to get their ducks in a row and make sure that serial rapists<\/strong> and other felons like Darren Sharper not only don\u2019t get into football\u2019s HOF, but aren\u2019t even considerable for nomination.\u00a0 It\u2019s an insult to anyone who doesn\u2019t think sexual assault is a joke, and frankly embarrassing to the NFL that shit like this can even happen.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Only in the NFL: Darren Sharper nominated for the NFL Hall of Fame; the same Darren Sharper who is currently in prison on an 18-year sentence for having drugged and raped upwards of 16 women This wasn\u2019t the screengrab I really wanted for this post, but apparently in the 21st century, replay footage of Sportscenter … Continue reading Hashtag NFLOL<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,45,106,50,58,49],"class_list":["post-43252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-crime","tag-fail","tag-football","tag-honor","tag-sports","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43254,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43252\/revisions\/43254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}