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Originally Posted by HeadOfSoxNation
Do you think a football-starved city will choose sound morals and values over a dynamic Pro-Bowl quarterback? I sure don't. This just in...being a good person is not something the NFL values all that much. It's a good thing, because if so Chad Johnson and Carson Palmer would be the only members of the Bengals and the Vikings would have to look for work in some Red Light District somewhere instead of on the football field.
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Goodell is making teams think twice about character (ex. Marcus Vick, who I had always kept hearing was a better athlete than Michael). If the Bengals could get rid of a lot of the guys having these issues I'm sure they would, but for all I know it could be cap suicide. And none of those character issues have resulted in prison time and the public backlash that Michael Vick is experiencing. Being caught with a little bit of weed is a far less serious offense than financing dog fighting and drowning and/or electrocuting eight dogs. The killing eight dogs part
alone is up to a 40 year sentence in some states (South Carolina, for example) -- up to five years for each dog. Plus, as you know, Vick isn't a conventional QB. You have to build around him -- you can't just throw him into any ol' system. Not easy to just up and change like that.