🏈Breakdown: Michael Floyd To Serve 1 Day In Jail For Failed Alcohol Test?🏈
So you can now get suspended in the NFL for alcohol?
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In today's NFL you can almost get suspended for anything, but I guess we can now add fermented tea to that list...
According to arizonasports.com "An Arizona judge on Monday ordered Minnesota Vikings wide receiver Michael Floyd to serve one day in jail for failing alcohol tests that he blamed on a type of fermented tea."
Floyd was under house arrest, for a DUI(Driving Under Influence) that had taken place in 2016, where I guess consuming alcohol was prohibited. I think we can all agree this story is pretty ridiculous in general and it made it even funnier when Floyd blamed it on fermented tea! All in all the NFL needs to drastically change it's discipline procedure, but they'll never do this because when big name players get suspended it creates huge headlines and free publicity. They've even been caught themselves in expanding story's on players like Micheal Vick, Ray Rice and others. While the players were still out of line the NFL didn't shy away from giving it as much media time as possible. Floyd has some talent I hope the NFL doesn't "out" him like they have other players!
Vikings GM had the following comments on the issue: “When we signed Michael Floyd, we hoped he would show signs of improvement and we continue to expect that he shows progress and a professional attitude”
LOL fermented tea, more like Twisted Tea!
Well, they've been calling it the no fun league for a long time. Goodell and the NFL are worried about image and I think they are taking it too far.
I do not have a problem with the NFL enforcing drug and alcohol policies. They should have to abide by the same policies that are enforced on the rest of us that perform risky jobs. Playing football is dangerous and a player needs to have all of his faculties fully functional when on the field whether it is practice, or a game. When my team takes the field I want every player to give 100% to win the game. 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. He can do that crap in the off season. A lot of these guys get paid more in a year than most of us will make in a life time. On top of that most of them enjoy a level of privilege as an athlete, from high school onward that average people do not get to enjoy. I am really sick of hearing these over paid athletes whine about what they don't get. The story about the tea is probably a BS story anyway. They need to just shut up, obey the NFL policies and play ball. Enjoy the game, but don't worship the players.
Good point didn't think about it like that I guess, I do strongly agree that with that amount earned and attention given by young fans they do need to act responsibly
So much of the young culture is ruined by bad influences it's crazy...
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.
love it!
NFL makes the rules. Players work for the NFL. I'd love to see a successful league that is NOT affiliated with the NFL break through though....
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