|
Best Porn Sites | Live Sex | Register | FAQ | Search | Today's Posts | Mark Forums Read |
Sports Discuss and share teams and athletes. |
|
Thread Tools |
10th February 2016, 09:22 | #1 |
V.I.P.
Postaholic Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 7,799
Thanks: 21,641
Thanked 23,689 Times in 6,115 Posts
|
NFL to bar players from scouting combine
Lindsay H. Jones
USA TODAY February 9, 2016 Prospects with convictions for domestic violence, sexual assault or weapons offenses will be barred from attending the annual scouting combine. The NFL will no longer allow players with convictions for domestic violence, sexual assault or weapons offenses to attend the annual scouting combine in Indianapolis. NFL teams were informed of this policy change in a memo from the NFL’s executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent late last month. In the memo, obtained by USA TODAY Sports, Vincent wrote that invited prospects would be barred from "any league-related event" if a background check turns up a felony or misdemeanor conviction. Players that refuse to submit to a background check will also be uninvited. It also means those players would not be invited to the draft. "It is important for us to remain strongly committed to league values as we demonstrate to our fans, future players, coaches, general managers, and others who support our game that character matters," Vincent wrote in the memo. The rule is expected to impact only a handful of players each year. More than 300 players attend the combine each February, where they meet with teams, undergo physicals, participate in a variety of on-field tests, including the 40-yard dash, and go through a series of position-specific drills. Had the rule been in place in 2015, No. 1 overall pick Jameis Winston would have still been allowed to participate in the combine because he was never convicted of sexual assault, despite allegations and a civil lawsuit while at Florida State. But former Michigan linebacker Frank Clark, who wound up a second-round pick of the Seattle Seahawks, would have been barred. Clark pleaded guilty to a lesser charge after an arrest for a domestic violence incident. Vincent told teams that players who are barred from the combine will have no restrictions from attending other private workouts, pro days and regional combines. |
The Following 3 Users Say Thank You to ghost2509 For This Useful Post: |
|
25th February 2016, 08:14 | #2 |
I Got Banned
Clinically Insane Join Date: Jul 2013
Posts: 4,546
Thanks: 41,771
Thanked 11,752 Times in 3,849 Posts
|
I don't see the point. Just some window dressing?
Allow me to rant for a second. This fucking "non-profit" bullshit organization will do ALL it can to make it look like they CARE about stuff. They will do it all except actually care. All publicity charades. They need violent young men with giant egos to suck in the cash and don't care where they come from. The NFL doesn't care about breast cancer they just like selling pink jerseys. The NFL doesn't care about military vets and families. They were paid by the government to help recruit. They don't care about concussions or any of it. The NFL pays their commissioner millions and millions of non-profit dollars to look like he gives a shit, but the NFL doesn't as long as billionaires can make millionaires out of young guys wanting to bash their brains and bodies for sport and fame. |
The Following User Says Thank You to Reclaimedepb For This Useful Post: |
Thread Tools | |
|
|