Glenn Younes: NFL - Reality TV At Its Worst
I've always said the NFL is our reality TV... I never thought it'd be full blown real house men of the NFL. The story lines have been bombastic, sensational and sad, to say the least. Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Greg Hardy, PED's, Weed, Goodell changing rules, not seeing the video tape (if you believe that, which I don't) and on and on and on. And that's in the last 10 days or so.
Yeah.
Week 1 of the season was totally over shadowed by the Rice / league controversy.
Week 2 has been Peterson and the whooping he gave his son. Yes, he took a switch and hit his son repeatedly with it. It's probably not how I'd raise my children, God willing I'm blessed with children, but that's how a large portion of people discipline their children. That's the rub to me, not about Adrian Peterson specifically but the idea of the standards we have.
It's not about how hard the public thinks we can hit children during discipline. It's about privacy a little bit, isn't it? Because a guy has a job in the public eye does it mean everything he does, says and is must be subject to major public speculation?
Maybe.. but to me it's a bit intrusive.
No one is defending domestics abuse. I'm not defending domestic abuse. I am defending the right of some sort of privacy and freedom to be a tax-paying, hard-working, free US citizen. I totally get that people in the public eye are subject to different standards (for right or wrong) but it's a shame. That said, are we using football players as testing projects for the masses of society? Putting people out there as litmus tests to see where the line is? Gauging the tolerance, acceptance and temperature of the football funding public? Who's the test dummy? The player or the fan or yes.. Both!?!?
I don't know maybe it's a learning tool for the future growth of society and we are evolving mentally. Or maybe we just thrive on negativity and hence forth money is being printed and players are messing up, less than the average population in the age group, so says the NY TIMES VIA USA TODAY DATABASE.
So are we cleaning up the game, just stirring the pot or bowing down to public social media outrage?
The debate continues in the meantime let us all focus a bit more on our own home, help society that way.
Can't wait to talk actual football.
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