The argument that you should be accountable to your employer when you’re on vacation doesn’t hold water because your vacation is voluntary, you’re still getting paid, and you know when you’re coming back. A better analogy would be if a player got into trouble while he was suspended from the NFL. That’s just like a lockout because you’re involuntarily being prevented from doing your job and you’re not getting paid. So by the logic above, you should be able to do whatever you want while you’re suspended without fear of reprisal from the NFL.

Really is a no win situation. Either way someone isn’t gonna be happy with the outcome.

You,a lawyer and a reasoanbly intelligent person, amaze me Mike. Ken Britt- lockout or not – is an NFL player. He is known for – if anything – being an NFL football player. He represents – whether he is in the midst of a training camp, and NFL season, or the off season – the NFL, simply by his name, as an NFL football player.

Anything Britt does, at ANY time- active or inactive – brings attention, and SHAME, to the NFL. He has a responsibility to the image of his employer, whether he is actively working or not.

Just try doing something majorly stupid,illegal, and embarrassing that gets headlines while you are away on vacation, and see if NBC has the right to suspend or terminate you, even though you weren’t techinically “working” for them at the time.

Britt’s “smiling” reaction to his meeting with Goodell proves that either Goodell was a feel-good “softy”, or that Britt clearly doesn’t get how much trouble he may be in.

Guess which one my money is on ….

I don’t think so.

I suspect both Britt and Talib were informed they are on a very short leash. The NFL doesn’t need the kind of bad press they produce.
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Sure, Kenny Britt if you get arrested 3 more times we are going to have to think about a 1 game suspension for you. Talib, if you shoot two more people, that might ‘tarnish the shield’ and we will give you 2 games off. That is Goodell’s version of a short leash for committing actual crimes. Now, get accused of something with no evidence or even charges when you are a white star QB, that is when Goodell is a tough guy.

Besides, both of these guys are black position players. Only white QB’s get made examples of.

My God, imagine if the shoe was on the other foot! There would be riots if a black player was suspended, but never charged with a crime while multiple white players were not punished for multiple arrests.

The idiot sounds like he thought he was going to get shot.