Lets face it, if a pig would have hit this chick he would have been promoted.
I meant just in general, he is large by default because he is an NFL running back. His legs are the size of small trees.
I agree, it's kind of a double standard but it's really the only situation he would not be losing his job over (another grown man hitting him). Any woman, any child, and any geriatric, would receive the same amount of shit thrown at him. So really, it's kind of hypocritical and sexist when men beat up other men, seeing as any other type of person would land them in doo-doo.
More and more, the question that is needed to be asked is whether something like nfl belongs in a civilized society, even one as violent as ours?
In our quickly degrading society, the NFL is one of the more civilized institutions. Some guy hitting a woman in an elevator has nothing to do with the NFL.
Nobody views it that way. Companies have discovered a long time ago that their employees are representations of their companies. What an NFL player does off the field reflects just as much as his play on the field on the team and the organization as a whole. The NFL wants to be a league of upstanding players, not a bunch of overpaid thugs.
Bear in mind, only a small percentage of the antics of these thugs ever become public knowledge.
Nobody views it that way. Companies have discovered a long time ago that their employees are representations of their companies. What an NFL player does off the field reflects just as much as his play on the field on the team and the organization as a whole. The NFL wants to be a league of upstanding players, not a bunch of overpaid thugs.
You're wrong. If the NFL were a company of 20 people, maybe it would be more like you want to believe. But it's comprised of hundreds of players and thousands of employees. What counts is how the NFL disciplines someone who has violated some code of conduct. I guarantee you the NFL's code is far stricter than all but a few employers in existence.
I guarantee you the NFL's code is far stricter than all but a few employers in existence.
Here's the sequence of events as I saw it.
1. She lightly backhands him outside the elevator.
2. They get in the elevator.
3. Smack is probably talked in both directions.
4. He lightly punches her in the face.
5. She comes at him, but yelling, not with fists to his face or car keys to his eyes.
6. He knocks her out.
7. He can't be bothered to drag her completely out of the elevator, leaving her feet and then her hair at risk of being caught in the doors.
Am I missing anything?
I would wager you are wrong on that one. It is, more than likely, the other way around.
You don't get suspended by most employers for getting a DUI. In fact, most employers will never know. Only if driving is vital to your job, is it a different story. Most employers don't do drug testing. Few would fire or suspend you for getting into a bar fight. You're not likely to get fired for punching a drunk at 2AM.
The fact that every off-field infraction of an NFL player, whether it's serious or trivial, instantly beomes national news, makes the NFL's code of conduct that much more stringent. You can't get away with much once it hits the press.
You don't get suspended by most employers for getting a DUI. In fact, most employers will never know. Only if driving is vital to your job, is it a different story. Most employers don't do drug testing. Few would fire or suspend you for getting into a bar fight. You're not likely to get fired for punching a drunk at 2AM. The fact that every off-field infraction of an NFL player, whether it's serious or trivial, instantly beomes national news, makes the NFL's code of conduct that much more stringent. You can't get away with much once it hits the press.
But, if I made national news for punching a drunk at 2AM, would I get fired or not? And, plenty of employers drug test.
Let's see what Maryland self-defense laws say about that:4. He hits her as retaliation to her prior assault on him.
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6. He defends himself so he won't be a victim of abuse from her again
The law of self-defense justifies an act done in the reasonable belief of immediate danger. If an injury was done by a defendant in justifiable self-defense, he can neither be punished criminally nor held responsible for damages in a civil action. . . . One who seeks to justify an assault on the ground that he acted in self-defense must show that he used no more force than the exigency reasonably demanded. The belief of a defendant in an action for assault that the plaintiff intended to do him bodily harm cannot support a plea of self-defense unless it was such a belief as a person of average prudence would entertain under similar circumstances. The jury should accordingly be instructed that to justify assault and battery in self-defense the circumstances must be such as would have induced a reaonable man of average prudence to make such an assault in order to protect himself. The question whether the belief of the defendant that he was about to be injured was a reasonable one under all the circumstances is a question for the consideration of the jury.
Id., 179 Md. at 600-01, 20 A.2d at 487.
The Court of Appeals said in the case that, even if the plaintiff had struck the defendant's employees first, the plaintiff would still be entitled to prevail in an action for battery if the defendant's employees, in repelling the plaintiff's acts, "used unreasonable and excessive force, meaning such force as prudent men would not have used under all the circumstances of the case." Id., 179 Md. at 600, 20 A.2d at 487.
Huh? None of the above justifies his actions, either morally or legally or in any kind of concept of self defense.Respective physiques as a concept is so abused by zealots considering it does not take into account the mental or emotional characteristics or strengths of the human in question. Also does not take into account instinctual responses.
It's obvious he's missed his true calling. Guy should be in the ufc with those hands.
It is downright sickening, and a sad indicator of the decay of our society, that such scum are revered by millions because they are the pushers who give the addicts their dose of sports highs