murphyreedus wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 9:25 am
mbasic wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 4:31 am
somehow I want to give a pass to Devante Adams pushing that camera man down.
If your "instinctive reaction" when a person gets in your way/stumbles at you is to shove them over, you're an asshole and should be treated like one. Neither of the examples you show are even remotely the same situation, and the post-game march off the field is always full of people walking in every direction.
Adams was pissy, and took it out on a bystander off the field because he dared get into his way. A misdemeanor charge and a short suspension seems absolutely appropriate. Anyway, he's officially a real Raider now.
You want players to go to combat for 3 hours. They wow to kill one another. League is full of wife beaters and criminals. Its basically a sport of violence, and supported by fans as such. Treat them gladiators. Let them do PEDs/steroids/drugs/coke/etc. (the NFL drug testing policy is a joke, and intentionally built to be a joke to not catch anyone). All kinds of narcistic psychoses have set in since pee-wee football.... Mix in some CTE side effects. I mean, you got NFL stars swinging around TWO helmets at joint practices like fucking pschyos trying to kill people....mums the word.
....and then a clumsy goofy camera-dude stumbles in a player's way, and everyone is shock-face-surprised and offended when his nano-second-reaction is push the guy ... I mean, push force was a 2 out of 10 there, but alas he's genetic killing machine... and the beatnik who fell was holding a 20-pound-$2000-camera off balance of whatever.
IDK, this seems like nothing burger to me.
I bet the only thing he could do was file charges with police, as I bet from a civil point of view the camera-man-guy probably signs the mother of all waivers as far as his terms of employment with the media-globo-corp (written in part by the N-F-fucking-L I'm sure) he works for. Indemity agreements and all that if he takes a helmet to the head, or say a bottle from a fan.
I'll restate: I can't stand these diva-pro-athletes, and if you dug thru my post history here, or at SS you'll see where I've super critical of these folks.
But I'll say it again: "git owt da whey".