What has the percentage of players changed in the last fifteen years?
Isn’t the “minimum wage” there well over a million dollars a year with many making much more than that? Well, I’m guessing that most people in that demographic, whether black, white or whatever, don’t have domestic issues at the average rate of the overall population.
I’m wondering if the report rates are accurate.
Supposedly, there are 30 NFL players with pending domestic issues on the commissioner’s desk (I don’t know this, this is just what I’ve heard reported).
My thinking (and I’m as big a football fan as you’ll find) is it’s a violent game. Having a violent personality, or violent tendencies, is a competitive advantage. That’s not to say that Aaron Rodgers goes home and beats the hell out of his family, but it might be more likely than average if NFL players displayed that tendency.
Heard this statistic today about college athletics, do not know the parameters but this is what I heard.
Number of College Athletes arrested for
serious criminal acts.
Football - 147
Basketball - 14
Soccer - 1
Lacrosse - 1
Baseball - 0
Is that suppose to make us feel good about the NFL?
First thing I noticed...
They compare all NFL players as a group.
Wrong!
They need to break it down into Black and white players.
When adjusted for proportion, Black players are arrested 2.5 times more often than white players.
That means Black players are arrested more often than the national average.
And, white players are arrested less than half the national average.
As with most analyses, only the reported incidents are included. Similarly, there have been more than 55,000,000 reported abortions since Roe v. Wade, a practice that is accepted as a person’s right! Is this a civilization?
More BS, just like this Breitbart article
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-Sports/2014/09/18/Unnecessary-Roughness-NFL-Domestic-Violence
The problem with football is the NFL itself (not getting into the concussion/injury thing)...as with the current ‘image’ problem (not the media).
I could care less one way or another, but trying to whitewash it in defiance just to defend the game is plain stupid.
I've become such a cynic. I can't help but wonder if at least a small percentage of the reporting against NFL players is baby-moms trying to extort more money from dad.