Plenty of employers have private discipline and it's usually more severe than what the NFL has. If you're an accountant (to use an example) and you get accused of domestic violence, your company will do one of two things: ignore it or fire you. There are no "6 meeting suspensions" in a regular job. Peterson and Rice…

I disagree with the claim that the NFL shouldn't have a personal conduct policy. We can quibble about the lengths of suspensions (4 games for marijuana does seem excessive). However, the alternative would be for the NFL to shrug its shoulders the next time one of their players beats up a woman or child and say "It…

Considering that Deadspin has taken a fairly strong editorial stance against the team name, I'm curious as to why the name is still used in headlines and articles? I assume that this has come up in discussions at Deadspin's offices.

I think the kayak was supposed to be kind of a Tampa "flair" type of thing, like giving out cowboy boots in Texas. If you're going to give him a locally inspired gift, a kayak makes just as much sense as anything. I just don't get why they feel the need to give him something other than a donation to his charity (or…

No players have hit any old ladies yet. He's waiting for that to happen first.

Chipper Jones and Mariano Rivera got gifts from every team too. I would imagine other players who announced their retirement in advance did too. I never understood it either. It's kind of ridiculous. I'm a Yankees fan, but I thought the Red Sox gift to Rivera was kind of clever: it was a painting of him giving up the…

I don't understand why the managers came out to argue. So what if they got what they felt was an unnecessary warning? It's not like it affects the game in any meaningful way as long as nobody else gets hit by a pitch.

If you have trouble reading 330 words (due to lack of attention span/lack of reading ability/whatever), I feel bad for you.

Eli got caught on camera when he was on the sidelines during the Lions game saying "Motherf***er" when a call went against the Giants defense.

In order to make themselves look good following a botched handling of a domestic violence incident, the NFL (because let's be honest here, the NFL told CBS what to do) fired a domestic violence victim. That makes perfect sense.

I think you are vastly overestimating the number of men who go around hitting (weaker) people. Also, your 2nd sentence seems to imply that you count yourself among these men who would be unemployed.

My favorite strategy used to be to order them to put food in the oven, then place an object in front of the oven so that they couldn't remove the food when it was done cooking, then just wait for the fire to start. One time, I also removed the door and filled the house with so many wooden objects that they had no room…

Counter point: Cousins was nowhere to be seen either. Therefore Cousins is not a natural leader either. #StartColtMcCoy

Since when was Boomer Esiason "great?" I've listened to his radio show and I get the impression that even he doesn't consider himself to be "great" QB.

It's really ridiculous that Goodell serves as the person with the ability to review his own punishments on appeal. How did the union not insist on an independent appeals board in the last CBA negotiation? It would be very simple to do: 6 members, 3 appointed by the league and 3 appointed by the union, and it would…

The Ray Rice tape was leaked on Monday. The Peterson indictment came down on Friday. That's a 4 day turn around. That's much too short for a prosecutor to gather evidence and create an argument in a case where he had previously decided not to press charges, then convene a grand jury, then present evidence, then let…

I don't think a prosecutor in Texas cares about what one in Atlantic City does in a totally different case.

Even if you believe in spanking your child, this is clearly a case of a parent going above and beyond what is necessary for proper discipline. For there to be an indictment, it means someone (probably Mom, but possibly a doctor) thought the beating was bad enough to report it, several police officers agreed that it…

Obviously it's impossible to tell for sure based on their public comments, but Vick appears remorseful for his actions (or he is very good at pretending). Mayweather, on the other hand, does not even pretend to be remorseful.

I got a few spankings too (granted not many), but it must have been pretty bad for someone (probably Mom) to report Peterson to the police, and for the police, the prosecutor, and the grand jury to all think it was worthy of indictment. It must have been way worse than the average spanking.