Before I get into today's blog let me say congrats to the Rangers on last night's (7-29-13) win.
Yesterday I wrote about how I thought they may be done since their offense had gone MIA. but last night may have been the turnaround they needed. Nice job of hitting by A.J Piersynski and Geovany Soto.in the ninth inning. Good job guys. Hoping and praying this is the start of something big for this team. You never know.
Now onto what I want to talk about today. This morning I listened to a heated debate between Tom Bailey and Mike Young on
Sports Talk 1460 ESPN about the NFL Hall Of Fame. Mike Young brought up a good point and it's the center of what I want to talk about today. Is the NFL Hall Of Fame in jeopardy from going the way of dinosaurs and becoming extinct? It's a good possibility if the NFL doesn't start doing a better job of keeping their players in line. Since the Super Bowl in February, there have been around 30 players arrested for various reasons. It's not like baseball and the problem is a drug that the league bans. These players are being arrested for drunk driving, taking and selling illegal drugs, and murder just to name a few. Until the NFL decides to step it up and do something about the behavior of it's players off the field, I'm afraid we will see a day when the doors to the Hall Of Fame in Canton will be shut and locked forever.
But why do you think they will shut the Hall Of Fame down? Well I'm glad you asked. Because if the NFL doesn't start doing a better job of keeping their players in line off the field, you won't see any player worthy to go into the Hall Of Fame because you will see the NFL having too many jailbirds to deal with. This is a league of morons. Sure you have guys like Tom Brady or Tony Romo who have brains and could probably make a good living doing something else, but then you take a look at guys like Josh Brent, Aaron Hernandez, and even go back further and look at Rod Carruth. You look at guys like Ray Lewis who, even though he was acquitted, should be in prison right now. So many players today can't handle to spot light of being a professional athlete. The league needs to take a page from the New England Patriots and decide to do away with any player that gets themselves into major criminal trouble. If they don't, the NFL will be gone and the Hall Of Fame will just be a place to remember the past and not a place of hope for the future.
Now onto what I want to talk about today. This morning I listened to a heated debate between Tom Bailey and Mike Young on Sports Talk 1460 ESPN about the NFL Hall Of Fame. Mike Young brought up a good point and it's the center of what I want to talk about today. Is the NFL Hall Of Fame in jeopardy from going the way of dinosaurs and becoming extinct? It's a good possibility if the NFL doesn't start doing a better job of keeping their players in line. Since the Super Bowl in February, there have been around 30 players arrested for various reasons. It's not like baseball and the problem is a drug that the league bans. These players are being arrested for drunk driving, taking and selling illegal drugs, and murder just to name a few. Until the NFL decides to step it up and do something about the behavior of it's players off the field, I'm afraid we will see a day when the doors to the Hall Of Fame in Canton will be shut and locked forever.
But why do you think they will shut the Hall Of Fame down? Well I'm glad you asked. Because if the NFL doesn't start doing a better job of keeping their players in line off the field, you won't see any player worthy to go into the Hall Of Fame because you will see the NFL having too many jailbirds to deal with. This is a league of morons. Sure you have guys like Tom Brady or Tony Romo who have brains and could probably make a good living doing something else, but then you take a look at guys like Josh Brent, Aaron Hernandez, and even go back further and look at Rod Carruth. You look at guys like Ray Lewis who, even though he was acquitted, should be in prison right now. So many players today can't handle to spot light of being a professional athlete. The league needs to take a page from the New England Patriots and decide to do away with any player that gets themselves into major criminal trouble. If they don't, the NFL will be gone and the Hall Of Fame will just be a place to remember the past and not a place of hope for the future.
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