SharrywasBanned wrote:
Ferris Bueller Youre My Hero wrote:
Actually he had to do certain things as a condition of coming back into the NFL and staying there. Including volunteering at shelters, donating to shelters, making speeches about how wrong what he did was, other community service, etc, etc. He's a very unemotional guy in front of the press. Sure maybe if this was TO he'd be crying like a little girl but who is to say he hasn't spent many nights crying about it in the privacy of his own home?

That is my whole point.  He HAD to do those things, does that mean his mindset is different in terms of it being wrong and disgraceful?  if he had no conditions and di them anyways, THEN I'd have more respect for him and actually believe he regrets what he did not because of the consequences but because he realizes it was morally wrong.


Military-  Do you know how annoying it is to explain yourself over an over and certain people still don't get it?
I only brought that example up to argue against the "he did his time" mentality.  I wasn't comparing the crimes, WHAT PART OF THAT don't you get?shrug
Goddell could still have made the choice to suspend him for the rest of his career after stipulating some of the conditions. Besides a majority of the conditions were set forth by the Virginia court system anyway and they were conditions of him being released from prison; at the time he didn't even know if he would play football in the NFL again. In fact, at that point in time no one in the league expected him to the signed they thought he'd have to go the Canada or play in the AFL.