Funny thing is, there actually WAS and OWNER who behaved the same way as Pacman, more or less. Leonard Toth, who once owned the Eagles, literally gambled away everything he owned, including his team. Like many of thee guys, he was remarkably cool with it afterwards, too. In his tiny little two-bedroom apartment.

Do you mean that you don’t get the parallel between PTSD caused by the horrors of war and PTSD caused by repeated concussions? If so, then you might want to read up on the subject.

Young men do both at least partially for our benefit. To an extent, each deserves our compassion. When they terrorize their mothers, bear their wives, or some such, then our compassion needs to take a backseat to our self-protection as a society.

Just don’t conflate the idiocy of risking millions of dollars for a toke with such conduct.

Resist the siren call of such fatigue. Instead, separate the wheat from the chaff. (1) Victimless crimes don’t count, unless others are thereby seriously exposed to great potential harm. Ganja? They’re idiots, but that’s between them and their team/teammates. You were an idiot once, too. (2) DUI matters, but let’s quit pretending that it matters more than we really believe that it does, just because a rich jock does it. Here’s the test: If you’d let your mother or your best friend slide, then you let everybody slide. In any case, you’ve no business being any MORE judgmental of the jock. (3) That leaves the things that are truly worth being P/O’d about, like beating on women, carrying guns through airport security, and such.

Also, be chary about overreacting to charges of resisting arrest. In case you missed it, a lot of cops have been taught encounter strategies that are seriously counterproductive. They tend to play into the authoritarian personality’s willingness both to overreact and to too hastily categorize the disobedient as the bad.

You make your children accountable…if they’re going to act like children, they should be accountable.

How about personal accountability? What ever happened to that?

One thing that Dayton said that troubles me was the part about improving the “reality” of the game as he sees it. He compares football to going to war, which in some ways is a valid comparison, but really not a very good one. He says that football players have a hard time transitioning from “war” back to “civilian life”, which is pretty asinine if you think about it. And when he talks about “improving that”, I hope he’s not talking about taking more of the violence out of football. So much has been taken out already that I think we have reached a happy medium between safety and football that is actually entertaining to watch. Take much more out and you may have an almost unrecognizable product that may not even be worth watching. But hopefully that’s not what Dayton was taking about.

Having said that… 10 arrests!?!!? 10 arrests out of what, 60 players or so? That’s idiotic. Some of these man-children need to grow up. They’ve been given a rare opportunity to make a great deal of cash, and these blockheads can’t stay out of a cop car. What will it take for some of these players to realize the opportunity they were given?

Spend time with your family. Find a hobby. Play a board game, do a puzzle, or bake cookies with your kids or wife. Read a book. Watch a good movie. Find Jesus. Volunteer to teach football at the Y. Build a house for the homeless. Philanthropy is good.

How hard is it to stay away from druggies, party-girls, and people that carry guns.

On June 1, 1865, Senator Charles Sumner commented on what is now considered the most famous speech by President Abraham Lincoln. In his eulogy on the slain president, he called it a “monumental act.” He said Lincoln was mistaken that “the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here.” Rather, the Bostonian remarked, “The world noted at once what he said, and will never cease to remember it. The battle itself was less important than the speech.”

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

Yes yes free time is the reason, it’s certainly not people always protecting them and making excuses for them all their lives.

Guess what all you criminals in Minnesota, governor Dayton knows you all have your reasons and it’s ok.