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Ethics in the National Football League

Gabriel Bell
Mar 23, 2015
Washington State University
Ethics in the National Football League
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The NFL has atrocious public relations, and it stems from a lack of ethics in the league. From Ray Rice to Aaron Hernandez, there has been some major issues with ethics these last couple years. But every opportunity the league has to show that they are able to understand ethics, they make everything worse. To use Ray Rice as an example, when the NFL saw the original video of Ray Rice abusing his wife, he only got a two game suspension. Once the other portion of the video was released, the NFL then suspended Rice indefinitely... which was great, except that indefinite suspension only lasted about a month and ten days. Ray Rice is allowed to play in the NFL. He could sign with a team tomorrow and nothing would happen.

The players of the NFL should be held to a higher standard than the average citizen. These are kid's heroes and rightfully so, some players of the NFL do a lot of good like Russell Wilson, J.J. Watt, or Thomas Davis. These are the people kid's should look up to. When Adam "Pacman," Jones is still allowed to play in the league after 9 separate arrests, that seems like an issue, Jones may be good at football, but he does not deserve to be getting payed for playing football (fansided.com). Between 2002 and 2014, there was 642 violations with only 142 reprimands with only 60 games in suspensions and slightly over 3.5 million dollars in fines (fansided.com). That is crazy, with most 9 to 5 jobs a person gets fired after an arrest. The NFL has a hard time even punishing a quarter of it's players.

Professional athletes may just be normal people, some just want to be athletes not role models. This doesn't matter, a child could idealize someone in the NFL for how great they are athletically, then see their off field activities and think it's okay because nothing happens to them. Their hero gets a DUI or punches their wife and they are out on that field the same week. It is embarrassing. This is a plea to Roger Goodell: show the nation that when you punch your wife in the face on camera, you do not get your job back because you were already "punished," with a two game suspension. Give the young fans of the NFL a realistic perspective about how getting arrested affects their careers.

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