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League banning alcohol during team events (1 Viewer)

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Per KFFL.com:

NFL | League banning alcohol during team events

Thu, 31 May 2007 15:59:20 -0700

The Associated Press reports the NFL has banned all alcohol during team functions and team trips for players, coaches, owners as well as team guests.
Also from NFL.com

Thoughts?

 
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Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.

 
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Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
:goodposting: Right on man!
 
Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
I agree with you, but what does that have to do with the NFL?? If I'm the NFL I'm selling my players, just as much as I'm selling the games on Sundays. Players in trouble hurts my marketing ability.
 
Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
I agree with you, but what does that have to do with the NFL?? If I'm the NFL I'm selling my players, just as much as I'm selling the games on Sundays. Players in trouble hurts my marketing ability.
I guess I'm just against any rule that takes brewskis out of people's hands. This is pretty lame due to a very small minority.
 
Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
I agree with you, but what does that have to do with the NFL?? If I'm the NFL I'm selling my players, just as much as I'm selling the games on Sundays. Players in trouble hurts my marketing ability.
I guess I'm just against any rule that takes brewskis out of people's hands. This is pretty lame due to a very small minority.
The few always ruin it for the majority.
 
Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
I agree with you, but what does that have to do with the NFL?? If I'm the NFL I'm selling my players, just as much as I'm selling the games on Sundays. Players in trouble hurts my marketing ability.
I guess I'm just against any rule that takes brewskis out of people's hands. This is pretty lame due to a very small minority.
The NFL is a small club, This wont affect anybody in a negative way.. If you are working, and yes team travel and functions are considered work since you represent the team and the NFL, you should not be drinking.. This is no different then myself staying sober on my way, during , and way back from work.Since some of these athletes have shown that they cant be responsible for their actions then the league has to step in.
 
Two words - Josh Hancock.
Actually, it's Hancock's father who has decided to sue anyone that was in the state of Missouri the night his son drove drunk and could have killed someone innocent. The NFL doesn't want to be sued if it happens to a football player because the family will almost always win in our society.
 
Unfortunately, our society has become one where people want to blame others for their own indiscretions/irresponsibilities. I blame our legal system and the litigiousness that exists today. Whatever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? What a shame. The freedoms of this country are going to hell in a hand basket.
:lmao: :goodposting:
 
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070531/ap_on_...fbn_nfl_alcohol

Another article on this subject. Interesting distinction: They are banning the teams from providing alcohol for the players. That doesn't seem like a bad idea.
Liability. Plus you could have an issue punishing a player for being inebriated if you gave him the booze.
Exactly. Some player gets off the plane and runs over two kids, why sue him when you can sue the NFL?
 
..."I believe that no constructive purpose is served by clubs continuing to make alcoholic beverages available, and that doing so imposes significant and unnecessary risks to the league, its players and others," Goodell wrote to all 32 teams in a letter obtained by The Associated Press...

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Goodell's letter is in keeping with his policy of setting strict standards for behavior by players, coaches and officials after a year of numerous arrests, many of them for alcohol-related offenses....

Seems reasonable to me... :goodposting:

 
My Company has the same policy, and we are a heck of a lot smaller than the NFL. Also, most of those who work here are older or family types.

If a company as small and boring as mine has this policy, it makes sense a Rich company employing very wealthy people right out of college would do the same. I am surprised they didn't have it before my company, and I am surprised that MLB hasn't installed the same policy across the board.

What if Josh Hancock had killed someone other than himself? What if he had killed a number of small children? What would have happened to the Cardinals or MLB? The punitive damages could have been huge. The lawyers could have pointed to a history of DUI arrests made to players over the years, the existing Drug policy as evidence that both the league and the teams had the power tomake a change, and the fact that the Teams were PROVIDING the alcohol. With the right jury made up of parents of small children, that judgement could have been huge.

The NFL is handleing this exactly right.

 
Alcohol is woven into the fabric of the NFL. People forget how young these guys are, add in the celebrity and the money and its party time.

"Team" events will simply become private parties at bars or players houses, except the players will be picking up the tab more often. Other than lessening the liability of the team/NFL and looking good from a PR standpoint for Goodell, this won't do too much to change a culture that's been in place for decades.

 

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