This is news: the arrest rate of NFL players is down
Why is this news? Is this something to be proud of? As the article itself states, a single arrest is one too many, and the fact that this is even a story in the first place is just another reminder of just how much of a problem it is that there are all these football players with too much money and privilege acting like they’re above the law and finding out the wrong way that they’re not.
But whatever though, it’s not like it’s new knowledge that the NFL is garbage these days, and they should be looking to celebrate and champion any and every little thing that might possibly be construed as a massive victory, like the fact that fewer of their players are getting arrested; or as I’d like to phrase it, fewer NFL players are actually getting caught at being the shitheads that so many of them are.
Frankly, if they’re crediting stiffer punishments as reason why arrests are down, imagine how much faster they’ll drop if the punishments got even stiffer? In the world outside of the pampered world of professional athletes, if a guy got arrested for drunk and disorderly, or worse, sexual assault, they’d get fired on the spot and their lives would likely be ruined. But NFL players just get slaps on the wrist and suspended for a few games in a sport that plays 16 games a year. I’d bet money that if the NFL punished players like the real world punished citizens, the arrest rate would drop even more than it has over the last 10 years.
It doesn’t matter if you’re Aaron Rodgers, Andrew Luck or Ezekiel Elliott or Josh Norman. Get arrested, void of contract, full-year suspension, or just cut outright, and have to earn your way back. Fuck anyone who breaks the law for whatever stupid and selfish reason, and punish them all the same and indiscriminately, like ordinary people.