Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
The nation’s problems have been solved. They must be, if the Feds have nothing left to investigate besides painkiller use in the NFL to make sure million-dollar superstars aren’t taking drugs to help them win by playing while hurt.
I notice they didn’t investigate the Vikings. Nobody playing there, hurt or not.
Joe Doakes
It’s the fans that need the painkillers.
there is a reason women like men who are Vikings fans:
they don’t expect much
and they’re used to disappointment
although this year it looks like the Raiders will get the metrosexual award
The Feds have been going after pro sports players and their performance enhancing drugs since 2004. It really has been disappointing that this is the focus of drug enforcement when there are actually real problems with real drugs left untouched.
I disagree. That argument is roughly along the lines of a driver complaining about getting issued a traffic ticket when there “are rapists and murderers running free.”
When the feds or local authorities bust drug dealers it doesn’t generally make big news. Sending feds into some football stadiums and investigating medical doctors and high-profile sports figures – that got in the news. And it sends a message that the rich and famous (at least some of them) aren’t above the law, not even in Obama’s world.
Sending feds into some football stadiums looks like justice system theater to me, and the message it sends is not one of equality under the law.
“When the feds or local authorities bust drug dealers it doesn’t generally make big news.”
like when the feds ramped up security on our southern border to curtail drug cartel activities
or when the feds burned all the poppy fields in Afghanistan
why because it didn’t happen since crippling the industry would jeopardize the DEA bureaucracy
face it this is just payback because the NFL hasn’t instantly acceded to Dear Leader’s desire to change the Redskins name
I concur with mjb003, and up it to all aspects of governmental intervention, beyond basic criminal and financial law-breaking.
As one of the few who never “got” the whole team sports infatuation; being a fan, adopting a team affiliation, or drawing some type of personal identity from “our/ my” team, I view all of this stuff as entertainment. Consequently, who cares? If no objective (not sports specific) laws are being broken, the government should keep out of it. The players are modern day minstrels (no, not that kind), jesters, and jokers. Nothing more.
This would include penalizing a team member for off-field activities, even those criminal in nature, particularly if the incident is being adjudicated in the criminal or civil systems. These are football, etc. players for God’s sake, not entities of consequence whom a conscientious parent should even allow an offspring to emulate as a role model.
Calling these high-paid clowns in to testify before congress, etc. is further proof of how star struck those who govern us really are …