RolStoppable said:
Jon Gruden has resigned as Raiders coach.
It's odd that a society that believes in rehabilitation of criminals, including rapists and murderers, shows little to no willingness to forgive words that someone used at some earlier point in their life. All too often people get fired or essentially forced to resign by their "own" choice.
Gruden used some bad words in e-mails dating a decade back, but if he were truly a bad guy, he would have already had such a reputation because he's been in the NFL for over 20 years in one form or another. Gruden is not Dan Snyder or some such.
But this is the NFL, a sports organisation where domestic violence is considered a much greater offense than complete and utter disrespect towards the sport itself. Slapping a woman can end careers, but the usage of performance-enhancing substances gets a player about four weeks off instead of a minimum of one year like in other sports. It's not that I am okay with women getting beat up, it's just the magnitude with which different things get punished defies common sense.
Who knows, maybe there's more that will come to light about Gruden. But as it stands now, this development is pretty disappointing. |
For anyone that watched Chapelle's last comedy special-- maybe one of the most significant of modern times --he ended with a monologue that touched directly on this subject. "Remember, taking a man's livelihood is akin to killing him."
Also, the NFL has proven in recent times that domestic violence is apparently far less important to them than many of these other social issues. Just a couple years ago, Tyreek Hill was recorded on tape threatening his wife (someone he'd already been charged with beating while pregnant I believe), while they were discussing the fact he'd broken his kid's arm. I don't remember him being charged with anything significant, but I guess he didn't play for the Patriots at that point either, so he didn't get hounded by the media for something like vague texts and allegations that still haven't been proven or really even discussed further.
