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RE: 🏈Breakdown: Michael Floyd To Serve 1 Day In Jail For Failed Alcohol Test?🏈
Ok... so what you are saying is a pretty sound argument... but lost me when you said "If a guy doesn't take that responsibility seriously enough to not show up under the influence then I don't want him on my team"... these players are not showing up under the influence on the field. It's like getting tested for alcohol on the weekend at a 9-5 job. God forbid you have a beer during lunch hour, bye bye career!
Ok let me be more specific. All I am asking is that they follow the same guidelines that I have to follow as a truck driver. Most any trucking company's policy is that if I show up to work and there are ANY, regardless of what the law says is an allowable limit, so let me repeat that again, ANY traces of alcohol on my breath it is an automatic termination. So yeah, if I have a beer on my lunch hour then it is bye bye career.
If you have watched football as long as I have then you have seen the guy getting carried off of the field with a life threatening spinal injury that ends his career. There are also concussions to consider. As I stated before the player needs to have his full faculties when on the field because it is a dangerous sport. If they will take growth hormones and all kinds of other chemicals just to get that little bit of an edge in their performance, then they need to treat their conscious awareness the same way and not be under the influence when on the field.
The reason I do not want that guy on my team is because he doesn't take his position on the team seriously if he is careless enough to break policy in this manner. He is more likely to get an injury with that kind of an attitude because it will show in his performance and it will likely affect other areas of his life. Michael Irvin is a perfect example of this. He could have had a longer career, but got carried off the field on a stretcher in his last game. I don't want the guy who is more likely to get injured and miss play time leaving a weakness in team performance if they don't have a guy as good as him to replace him.
If you think these players wouldn't show up under the influence if it was allowed then you don't know anything about how some of these players think who have a mentality that they can get away with things that other people cannot get away with. It is groomed into them from high school onward. Have you watched Jeff Berwick the Dollar Vigilante's recent videos about alcohol? He nails it.
Again, Floyd did not show up on the field under the influence. Being a truck driver, of course you can't have a drink during lunch hour, so my analogy doesn't work in that case (I did specifically state a 9-5 job). But, even as a truck driver, you can't have a couple beers during a vacation? Because in most cases, it seems like these suspensions are happening after the season is over. IE: Josh Gordon. Hell, Gordon even went to rehab on his own before the season even started, without failing any tests administered by the league, and they suspended him for it. I'm not trying to defend Floyd specifically, but it's pretty obvious that the NFL's policy for alcohol and marijuana are far too strict. Maybe some of these players do show up under the influence when they take the field (I honestly can't even think of one occurrence reported that way in the last decade), but the majority being suspended are not.
EDIT: Also, I have not watched any Jeff Berwick videos, but I'll look into it.
I was going through an old box in my closet just now and happened across a sheet of old jokes about the 90's Cowboys. These jokes help to illustrate my point of how bad it can get if the NFL doesn't keep a lid on these guys. When everyone is emailing jokes about it you know it is out of control.
9.How do the Dallas Cowboys spend their first week at Spring Training? A) Studying their Miranda Rights.
Haha! I am going to borrow a few of those!
Well to be honest I have not read about Floyd's case specifically in any detail because he's not playing for my team, so I do not care lol. I was speaking on principle and not on this specific case, although I did see where it was said that he has a troubled history. Anyway, normally I do not like regulations to be too severe either, but with these young athlete's you really have to be that way. Reason being that they get such a high magnitude of success at such a young age that some of them aren't really emotionally mature enough to handle it without getting into trouble. I'm not saying that is the case with all of them, but it is with enough of them for it to be a concern. I think the NFL is trying to look out for them and protect their investment. You have scumbags out there waiting to set these guys up in a bad situation so they can trap them in a court case and sue the crap out of them. How many times have we heard of one of these players being accused of rape and find out it was BS? It's a lot easier to set a guy up when he is drunk in public with witnesses, so going out drinking is really not the smartest thing for one of these players to do. The NFL has had an image problem in the past and they are trying very hard clean it up. When one of these players screws up it doesn't just affect the player it can affect the whole team, and the image of the entire league. The rewards these players get are huge, so there are some sacrifices that come with that. You gotta see the big picture. You can't just look at it like an average dude, you gotta see it from the perspective of a team of NFL attorneys lol.