Talk of Peterson and Rice coming back quickly...

[MichaelNewtonII]

Peterson should be back very very soon

[cardiackat88.]

If Rice ever plays another down in the NFL, I have lost all faith in the leauge.

[2jakefansinva]

...per NFLN. Trials coming to a completion and talk of compromising between time served and a full suspension.

Not a peep about hardy, SMH.

 

and who do you suppose Ray Rice is going to play for ???

[the butch]

FYI, Hardy could drop his appeal, take the guilty verdict, and probably start playing right away [given time-served by the NFL] like he says he wants to.

[Semaj]

It's the Ravens and Vikings. We are the Panthers. Of course it works out for the worst for us. If hardy played for the Giants, Cowboys or Patriots, we all know he would have been back after sitting out 6 games.

[Brooklyn Bully]

YAY, more Hardy talk.

 

 

Ugh.

[Anybodyhome]

The people responsible are the fans who are so morally righteous that they can't forgive anyone. These social justice warriors believe in excommunication and harassment and do not care about things like freedom of speech or a fair trial.And many here are no better than the people who got Hardy kicked out.

 

The same principles were in place when that audio recording of Donald Sterling was made public. The guy said some horrendous things in a private conversation and people demanded he sell an entity he was the rightful owner of. And regularly people go after the jobs of people they disagree with, that is the new form of tyranny. Rob Schneider recently lost a job doing commercials for some company because he believes receiving multiple vaccines at the same time causes autism. Of course there is no scientific evidence to support this, but should someone really lose their job for having an unpopular opinion?

 

You could make a similar argument for Joe Paterno. He followed the law in his actions but for social justice warriors following the law isn't sufficient. You have to throw on the rainbow colored cape and get on the frontlines of social justice or face their wrath.

 

In the NBA Chris Andersen was 'excused' by the Denver Nuggets when police officers were investigating him for child pornography. After a lengthy investigation it was discovered that he was the subject of an elaborate hoax. Did the social justice warriors or the Denver Nuggets or anyone else compensate him for his damaged reputation and missed job opportunities? No. Social justice warriors answer to no one.

 

When you constantly have a visceral response to everything and you believe in never forgiving anyone and you think it's productive to make any criminal ineligble to work ever again and you forego due process you are no different from those who got Hardy exempted.

 

Obvioulsy it's absurd for a player to miss more time for contesting charges than for admitting guilt. This clearly encourages players to accept guilt to make themselves eligible to play. I'm no Hardy fan. The guy is trash personified and anyone making 13 million dollars should not be dating some slutty waitress. But at the end of the day we shouldn't be encouraging guilty pleas so players can play. The punishment for hitting a woman is 6 games. The punishment for hitting a woman and denying it is 18 games. That's basically what the social justice warrior has dictated to Roger Goodell.

 

I was reading and ready to award massive pies for your comments and the illustrations of social and judicial injustice and the implications of both as a result of morally self-righteous loudmouths. But then, something happened along the way....

 

Toward the end of your description of the social justice warriors and the judgment they seem to pass, lo and behold, you do the exact same thing! While you may dislike the idea of social justice warriors passing and dictating judgment, you certainly showed yourself to be capable of the same thing by characterizing Greg Hardy and his former girlfriend:

 

"I'm no Hardy fan. The guy is trash personified and anyone making 13 million dollars should not be dating some slutty waitress..."

 

Unless you're personal acquaintances and know both of these people, haven't you passed judgment on a personal level not unlike the social justice warriors who pass judgment on a moral level?

 

 

 

[Davidson Deac II]

Hardy will never play in the NFL again, a drawn out trial for first time Misdemeanor is just a step too far!

 

Was that sarcasm?   Hardy will of course be playing again in the NFL.  Perhaps not for us, but he will definitely be playing somewhere. 

[FugginPoo]

Was that sarcasm?   Hardy will of course be playing again in the NFL.  Perhaps not for us, but he will definitely be playing somewhere. 

 

Do you really have to ask if it was sarcasm?

 

Yeah, Hardy will likely play another game in the NFL but not before missing at least an Entire season and costing the Panthers over $13mil in tied up cap space and a busted season.   All for a pending Misdemeanor charge.

[Davidson Deac II]

Do you really have to ask if it was sarcasm?

 

Given some of the crazy things I have read on various internet message boards, yes. 

 

[Kurb]

What's important here is Jerry Richardson was able to protect his and the NFL's public perception. That is, afterall, what matters most to the Panthers.

[Marc Anthony]

Only a desperate team will sign Rice, oh wait....

[tondi]

We have no one to blame but ourselves. The whole thing has now blown over and nobody cares any more. If we had held tough we wouldn't be in this situation. This was the front office version of playing not lose and we all know how that ends up on the field. You lose.

[PanthersClinic]

I was reading and ready to award massive pies for your comments and the illustrations of social and judicial injustice and the implications of both as a result of morally self-righteous loudmouths. But then, something happened along the way....

 

Toward the end of your description of the social justice warriors and the judgment they seem to pass, lo and behold, you do the exact same thing! While you may dislike the idea of social justice warriors passing and dictating judgment, you certainly showed yourself to be capable of the same thing by characterizing Greg Hardy and his former girlfriend:

 

"I'm no Hardy fan. The guy is trash personified and anyone making 13 million dollars should not be dating some slutty waitress..."

 

Unless you're personal acquaintances and know both of these people, haven't you passed judgment on a personal level not unlike the social justice warriors who pass judgment on a moral level?

 

 

 

 

The difference is I'm not pursuing this guy being prevented from earning a living. It's one thing to dislike somebody or their actions, it's another to try to have them locked up in prison for life or have them banned from work.

 

Obviously everybody has their differences. I'd argue most NFL players are bad people. I remember Beason's incident at that club in Charlotte and that rap song he made at Miami that was highly offensive. I didn't want him out of a job though.