Dubbz Says: read an interesting comment from The Monday AM QB…if it were you or I, we would have ended up in jail…Vick was briefly detained, then boarded the plane and went on his merry way. What’s wrong with that?

We’d be able to make bail also, but with someone who’s loaded like Vick, the process moves much faster I’d imagine. Possession of a small amount in some states warrants a ticket, but unless you’re in Utah I’d imagine it’s a misdimenor.

# James Says:Dead I,
have never understood the pot testing myself. It has to be mostly to pay lip service to the public for being a family form of entertainment. Right?!?
The HGH and Steroid stuff bothers me more due to the unfair advantage that is gained.

It’s a backlash from the many many years when pro football players were the most stoned/STD infected/boozed up monsters in all of professional sports. The drugs come into it due to Just Say No, and that period where cocaine became such a problem, all “drugs” were demonized as a set, and the NFL didn’t want to miss out on the payday that they’re experiencing in full force today.

I’m a purist in terms of the players and the game itself…and having been a fan of the Patriots through the bad, the horrible, the shamefull on up until today, I’ve seen first hand how the individual teams set the toughest standards on the issues that really matter in terms of off-field stuff. When Ben Coates showed up on the blotter for domestic abuse, he was gone. If you listen to someone like Richard Seymour in a press conference like today’s, talking about his teammates, he’s talking about character, family men, etc…

If the team isn’t drawing a line on what a player can be as a person and still be a part of the organization, then you’re going to have an embarrasing situation regardless of how many suspensions the league hands out.

The substance abuse policy falls outside of this completely in my opinion, as in terms of my interests as a fan, I’m looking at a number on the back of a jersey. The “character” of that man is of little consequence after the ball is snapped. At that point I WANT TO ASSUME that the two teams are going at it on equal terms. If one side is high on crank and moving the pile because of it, the entire thing is ruined for me…of course, not knowing helps quite a lot, but it’s really the idea of an unfair advantage that bothers me more than anything else.

Pot doesn’t even belong in the conversation as far as that goes, since a lineman who’s high on that isn’t moving anyone anywhere!

To make my point as a football fan first and foremost…the left side of San Diego’s offensive line pushed around the Pats like I haven’t seen a team do in years. That’s tallent and size and raw -meat-eating kind of nasty that I can accept being beaten by. Those same guys playing over their heads because they’re high is unacceptable.

THAT should be the NFL’s goal first and foremost with their drug policy. Ensuring that nobody cheats the fans out of a game. Whether or not these players cheat themselves…shoot, what’s worse, getting high and lazy in the offseason, or the fact that some of these guys won’t be able to remember their own phone number by age 50 regardless…they’re killing themselves already by playing pro football in the first place.

So as long as they don’t cheat – just leave them the hell alone.

Think it has to do with all the ways a person can get off if proper procedure is not followed.

(*sigh*)

It seems the elder Mora was more and more correct: a coach killer, a franchise killer.

Somebody better talk some sense into MV before he has to go to Canada and run an offense with Ricky. (But try stopping that offense from running!)