[grania]

Too much money and a sense of entitlement have ruined that rough-around-the-edges element from the game. Instead of being grateful for wealth and fame, they're either making irrational demands or enabling those that do.

I don't get why they keep getting more chances with real bad behavior and drug violations. One should be enough. I get it that a good team sells tickets and the owner wants talent, but that's a false narrative. Look at the damage losers like Josh Gordon do to the rest of the team. Get a decent, hard working player such as Ted Ginn Jr and he's around longer then his more talented and more criminal HS and college classmates.

[RedMonqey]

Too much money and a sense of entitlement have ruined that rough-around-the-edges element from the game. Instead of being grateful for wealth and fame,

This is very true of today's players and today's generation. They forget it's a team sport. In a time long ago I played baseball and football, both team sports. If a player got a little uppity, he got an attitude adjustment from a few willing players(I was one one time) while the coach and the remaining teammates looked the other way.

Of course nowadays the parents of the little brats would sue cause it would be on camera but we didn't have much problem players like the pros have nowadays. Which is a pity because it makes hollow the term "To be a sport, be a sport(Good Sportsmanship)