Comments on: Cowboys have “very educational” meeting with MADD

By: CKL

CKL — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:46:47 +0000

Organizations can’t do anything. The law can. Change it so that after your second convicion of DUI only (ie not DUI manslaughter) the vehicle you were driving (unless you stole it)is taken away, sold at auction and money goes to some deserving charity. If it were someone else’s car you legally borrowed, well, they just learned not to lend their car to a drunk driver. I would hope that anyone who knew someone well enough to lend them their car would know they had a DUI on their record. And if not, again, expensive lesson learned.

Education on what should be common sense can’t fix stupid or simply irresponsible. Look at all the sex ed we have now and the easy availability of birth control, then look at the amount of baby mommas and daddies we have now vs what there was 60 years ago with little sex ed and birth control availability. All you can do is make people’s awful decisions have grave consequences so they are sufficiently discouraged from repeating those choices.

By: revskip

revskip — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 04:28:47 +0000

If the Cowboys were serious about stopping their players and coaches from driving drunk they would mandate immediate yearlong suspensions for any infraction for conduct detrimental to the team. They have that leverage available to them under the CBA but would never use it because at the end of the day they feel competing is more important than the lives that are put in danger each time one of their players or coaches gets behind the wheel of a car drunk. Which is why instead of immediately banning Josh Brent from team facilities they allowed him to hang out on the sidelines at the game immediately after killing one of his teammates with his selfish and dangerously irresponsible behavior.

By: mazblast

mazblast — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 03:10:49 +0000

What “education” do people need? How freaking obvious does something have to be before you “learn” it?

Either the Cowboys organization has descended to the IQ level of the falsely stereotyped Texan (not everyone in Texas has the IQ of a small soap dish, only a great many), or they’re trying to placate the rabid dogs of MADD, or both.

By: zeeman911

zeeman911 — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 02:59:31 +0000

These bros just think its party time. Smoking a bunch of blunts doesn’t help either….

By: robertocfg

robertocfg — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 00:40:54 +0000

Sadly, I don’t think drunk driving will ever disappear. That doesn’t mean we should not try to reduce it to a minimum.

I’ve done it in the past, but since then I’ve tried to be honest with myself and realize that it is much better to shell out some extra bucks on a cab than to put people around me in danger.. Thankfully, I never harmed others or myself when I did it. But it is one of the most stupid things one can do, because it is so dangerous and at the time so easy to prevent.

As public figures, athletes have some kind of extra responsibility to avoid it and set an example. But really, it’s something that falls on each and everyone of us.