would warrant jail time if it happened on the street.
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It doesn’t in this circumstance? Why?
I don’t follow football so perhaps another Freeper could explain this.
Wintertime, I do follow football and I do not have an answer.
We’ve seen hockey players have assault charges filed for using sticks before. Garrett connected directly on the top of the head, seemingly hard, that could have gone really, really bad, and on live television.
Only answer I can muster would be along the lines of ‘slippery slope’. Sort of, ‘well if you prosecute for this... then what about that... what about cheap shots... blind side or crack back blocks... what about the crap that goes on in the pile at the end of a play, etc....’.
Because anyone that has played the game knows that when everyone is on the ground in a pile, some horrific s*** can go down. Fingers locked up and broken, ankles intentionally twisted to the point someone’s foot gets f***** up, junk grabbed and twisted on.
Not condoning those behaviors at all, just saying there are some nasty things that happen in this game that are not football plays, where 1 person intentionally tries to injure or maim another, and can have permanent results.
My answer is not good. I’m just trying to answer why the league may not want this prosecuted. Slippery slope is the only thing I can come up with. NFL will handle it, there is no place in the game for something like this.
I do NOT expect the Browns to handle it. I do not expect the same team that signed Kareem Hunt to dole out any sort of discipline for this incident. Although they should. Maybe they will surprise me.