The players are not the game.
Rather, the truth is that the game is far, far larger than the players.
Or it should be.
When a football player breaks the law, we have a legal system to deal with that. And football players should not be treated any differently than anyone else. When they have done something wrong, they should pay the price.
But instead, everyone seems to want to turn the NFL into the politically correct police. Just check out what U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said the other day…
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) signaled on Sunday that Congress may hold hearings on the NFL’s handling of domestic abuse in light of the Ray Rice case, if the league does not “police” itself.
“If the NFL doesn’t police themselves, then we will be looking more into it. We will — I wouldn’t be surprised if we have hearings,” she said in an interview with CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
And it just so happens that Gillibrand is strongly considering running for president in 2016 if Hillary Clinton does not run. Some insiders are saying that if Gillibrand does run, she has a really good shot of winning the Democratic nomination.
But I digress. Getting back to the NFL (or the No Fun League as many are calling it these days), the rules have been altered to eliminate so much physical contact that the players may as well be running around in skirts at this point.