What a bunch of nappy-headed 'hos.

They should be drafted into the military under the Tillman shcolarship program and forced to fight in Iraq.

I live in Nashville. Pacman Jones needs to either get his head screwed on and quit acting like a gang banger, or just give up a promising career and life to just go ahead and become one.

I'm incredulous that Pacman isn't already sitting in the jailhouse awaiting trial.

Pacman Jones needs to either get his head screwed on and quit acting like a gang banger


Yup. The same goes for Space Invaders Smith and Q. Bert Thompson.

this is not because of misconduct this sheer stupidity-throw a bunch of money at strippers then get mad when they pick it up-thats lobotomy needed behavior
jasman

"Pacman Jones needs to either get his head screwed on and quit acting like a gang banger, or just give up a promising career and life to just go ahead and become one."

I live in Cincinnati, and the same thing could be said for Chris Henry. He doesn't seem to take his life seriously, or realize the golden opportunity he's been given. People would kill to have a chance to play in the NFL. The commissioner is correct in saying that playing in the NFL is a privilege, not a right.

Nothing to see here.

-R8RH8R

I'm glad to see it. I have two boys playing football (youth and middle school respectively). This reinforces the lesson of the consequences of your actions.

According to the L.A. Times Article, Pacman's mother believes that the suspension is not and that it is unfair, hinting at charges of racism. Dare I make the Imus remark? Nah, Ness already beat everyone to the punch.

I wonder when Al Sharpton will chime up on their behalf?

"Boys will be boys"!

~ Don Imus

Goose, what a tool! It is your job to teach your kids about the consequences of their actions, not the NFL's!

No wonder we're fucked as a nation, we have a bunch of morons like you that keep reproducing who believe it's somebody's else's responsibility to raise their mistakes!

ya can takes da nigga outta da hood but ya cant takes da hood outta da nigga!

Good. It's about time the NFL stepped in. I suspect it's all about image - the NFL's image. Those players are simply interchangeable parts, but the entity (NFL) will be around long after and needs to rid itself of a hoodlum image.

Goose, what a tool! It is your job to teach your kids about the consequences of their actions, not the NFL's!

No wonder we're fucked as a nation, we have a bunch of morons like you that keep reproducing who believe it's somebody's else's responsibility to raise their mistakes!

per pacifica

Well thanks for the intellignet discourse, I would have thought the word "reinforce" would have intimated the notion of thier already being groundwork laid out. No the NFL doesn't parent my children but thier action serves to "reinforce" the lesson I have taught my boys about consequence to actions. I know my boys are smart enough to be able to contrast "dad coming down on their asses about infractions" and star players getting away with all sorts of BS. Now they get to see that star players ,do in fact have to answer for their behavior on and off the field, hence "reinforcing" the lesson of "act like a fool you will be called out for it".

Asshole.

make that "intelligent" ;p

Goose,
I wish all parents would look at it the way you do. I just spent this morning with the Police at my Granddaughter's high school. She was arrested. Do you know why? The star football player and track star made all kinds of vile sexual comments to her last Thursday. She asked him to leave her alone. He kept at it until he said something particularly vile. She slapped his face. His parents then preferred charges against her and so now she has a police record. In addition she was suspended for two days and is barred from the Student Commons (a place where students socialize) for a period to be determined later.

This is what teaches the jocks that women can be treated like crap. If a woman stands up for herself she is the one punished because the school/team doesn't want to lose its star athlete.

The police officer actually told me that this star football player was "afraid" to be in a room with my Granddaughter when she asked to try to talk out the problem with him!!! I laughed in the officer's face. This guy had two other friends who were weight lifters with him when he was harrassing her so there was one girl against three boys and she is the one who is arrested!

I have been in courtrooms hundreds of times and never in my life have I seen something so rediculous as this.

But because he is a star on the football and track team he is protected against anything he does. He has threatened to strangle my Granddaughter if he catches her off of school grounds, he had another of his freinds beat my Granddaughters male friend so bad he ended up with a concussion a year ago and has either beaten or had others beat up several other students and the most he has received is two days of detention time for this last incedent PERIOD.

Now my Granddaughter has to fear that this guy will attack her or have someone else attack her and nothing happens to him. When I told the Police Officer of the threats I was told that they can't be proved and nothing can be done unless he actually does harm her.

That is what parents of some atletes are teaching their jock kids.

Goose,

Contrast the above with how we handle things. My Granddaughter is a figure skater. My Grandson was skating with her one time and when he was coming off the ice a girl skater slapped his face. He came to us and told us. Asked the girl why she slapped him. She said he called her a "slut". We asked him if he said that and he said yes. Our response - "Good, you deserved to have your face slapped for saying that to a girl".
Another time he was saying some things that were not appropriate to another girl. She slapped his face. Again, our response was that he deserved to be slapped for talking like that to a girl.

How can kids learn respect for each other if parents back them when they do inappropriate things? My Granddaughter tells me all of the time about how boys treat girls at her high school. They hit them. twist their arms and hurt them in various ways all of the time.

I'm not talking about inner city schools. Her high School is one of the top 25 schools in Illinois and located in one of the most conservative counties and a city with more churches per capita than any other place in the state. It has one of the largest Christian Colleges in the nation only two miles down the road from us.

I can't tell you how disturbing it is to see this in what is supposed to be one of the top schools in the state. Imagine what is happening in lower ranked schools. It makes me dispare for our future because the kids doing this are going to be future legislators, CEO's Judges and lawyers. I know this because the former Speaker of the House is a graduate of the collage I was speaking of above and many graduates of her HS go on to that college. So are two other congressmen, the U. S. Attorney from New Mexico who was just fired (David Iglesias), the Chaplain of the U.S. Senate, religeous leader Billy Graham, etc.

Shy Guy,

sorry to hear of the trouble you are having. I appreciate the fact you are trying to bring your grandkids up right.

I will go to the mat for my kids, but at the same time will not hesitate to come down on them harder than anyone else can. Short story, my older son became involved in an incident at school which put him in real risk of not being able to participate in athletic activities. When everything was sorted out, he was at the wrong place at the wrong time and was not involved. I fought tooth and nail to make sure that this did not kill his chances to run track. However, two weeks later when he decided to skip a class, I was the at the school getting to the bottom of the issue and when the full story came out, I made sure he knew I was in total agreement with the principal's disciplinary action and punished him further away from school. I wish more parents would get back to taking responsibility for theirs kid's actions and take active roles in parenting. Grounding a kid from their cell phone and the computer is not punishment. Inconvenience can never replace concrete punishment. Ask my younger, when faced with having to give up the football season or taking a couple of bare assed spankings, he chose the spanking and at the end of the day was pretty damned stoic for an 11 y/o (haven't had a discipline issue since).

Good luck, it's a tough road, but at the end of the day the winner will be the kids.