They're going to sue me?
Maybe hockey, or boxing, or ultimate fighting.... Maybe if they say something that hurts the other team member’s feelings... /s
Case by case basis.
I would think there are certain instances people can say cross the line into criminal violence.
Sure.
This question and controversy came up many years ago during the “Broad Street Bullies” days in the NHL. At least a couple of Philadelphia Flyers players were charged in Toronto for alleged violence on ice during a hockey game. Charges were dismissed and it was all a waste of time.
You prosecute for on-field football violence, then what’s next? Roller Derby?
“”Should NFL players be criminally prosecuted for on-field violence?””
Well, if the Offense pulls out concealed weapons to ‘shoot holes in the Defense’, maybe
Otherwise let fines and suspensions cover it.
Part of the game gets rough and a whistle may not flip the switch to OFF immediately. But that switch needs to get thrown to OFF pretty darned fast
At the same time, the leagues need to clean up their referees. I have seen many times QBs getting hit upside the head after a play and nothing is called. Players whose intention is to run out of bounds pushed/hit just before he steps out of bounds. Interference calls not called. When the refs allow this to happen the players will continue doing it until it is absolutely flagrant. And sometimes it is not even called then - Rams/Saints last season.
I think if the leagues cleaned up their act and sport, more of the fans would return. Just as we cannot be political/violent at our jobs, then the players need to be held to the same standards.
Just my two cents.
Yes. I think there are times the line is crossed. If an injury happens on an overzealous play let the league deal with it. If there us uncalled for or egregious violence not related directly to a play then the same rules should apply as if I assaulted someone in the workplace. Such actions should be open to legal and civil remedy.
The violence in pro sports is there to sell tickets. It has leaked down into lower levels because of the publicity of selling it and the emulation of kids for their “heroes.” It is part of the sales.
Look at boxing...the more the knockouts the better the fighter. Ice skating...more revolutions and less technical skill, even though they bust the ice often, is the winner whether they skate well or not.
And in the background are the announcers pounding second level skills into stardom. It is the money, not the game.
Major league baseball is the perfect example of mediocrity. To determine the best hitters, we have to figure that there’s about 1,000 players with current major league contracts. Of those players with enough games to qualify, playing only three quarters of the season at 120 games, only 19 players hit .300 according to the Autonomy Corporation, a research company. That’s having success one third of the time. But the sport generated $10.3 billion in 2018, the last time Forbes finalized a count. So it isn’t the sport for the true sport of it, it’s the money. And it’s at all levels now.
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None dare call it race hatred.
Unless the other party wished to pursue charges...I would think you have nothing... maybe disorderly conduct... but in Virginia at least , that is very specific and not easily charged...
There were some reports that the QB started it all. From all the views I’ve seen, it was not apparent to me.
If the NFL gridiron is their workplace, which I believe it is, among others, then it would seem to make sense to outlaw the kind of wanton violence we saw at the end of the Steelers-Browns game last Thursday...but how then would you explain hockey and it’s NHL-style violence?
The NFL has lost all semblance of a once great sport to sit around as a family on Sunday afternoon or Monday night.
Now it is a bunch of gang banging blacks that think their schiff doesn't stink.
As soon as they do it for boxing and wrestling and MMA bouts and the such....
Would stand your ground laws apply too?
Sure! A thug is a thug in a National Felons League costume or not; on the street mugging people or on a field assaulting another thug. But I shouldn’t comment because I haven’t watch these mutts in three years.
No. And we shouldn’t pretend that situations like this haven’t happened before. This is “woke culture” outrage. Leagues should police themselves.
Boy, a lot of people now never watched pro football in the late 50s and early 60s.
I don’t know.
Should politicians be charged with the crimes they constantly commit?
I wonder which is more important.