Carolina Panthers Deactivate Greg Hardy Amid Domestic Violence Controversy
Source: CBS News
"Greg Hardy, the Carolina Panthers defensive end who earned a jury conviction in July for choking and threatening to kill his then-girlfriend, has been deactivated by his team ahead of Sunday's matchup against the Detroit Lions.
The team has not yet explained why Hardy, who had a sack in their week 1 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, won't be playing.
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Panthers owner Jerry Richardson spoke out tearfully against domestic violence last week, but the team has largely not publicly addressed their stance regarding Hardy.
"And when it comes to domestic violence, my stance is not one of indifference. I stand firmly against domestic violence, plain and simple," Richardson said."To those who would suggest that we've been too slow to act, I ask that you consider not to be too quick to judge. Over the course of our 20 years, we have worked extremely hard to build an organization of integrity..."
Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carolina-panthers-deactivate-greg-hardy-amid-domestic-violence-controversy/
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)all sports after the first baseball strike, and will never watch them again. Someone (I can't find it) did a measurement of the time the media spent talking about sports related items and non-sports related item--both related to sports for the last two weeks during the Rice episode. There was twice as much talk about Rice than Sports. So let's just stop the NFL.
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)Life's rough, hang in there!
ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)ballyhoo
(2,060 posts)expect these football dudes to be as perfect as you. No reply necessary. Your panties in a twist comment reduces your comments to zero worth, IMO. Have fun demeaning athletes.
freeplessinseattle
(3,508 posts)Yuk
groundloop
(11,518 posts)I have the feeling that the NFL has no choice now but to become (reluctantly) more active in this. Obviously a strong stance against domestic violence should have been a no-brainer for many years now, but if everyone keeps demanding action they'll have no choice but to rid themselves of domestic abusers.
calimary
(81,209 posts)Big of 'em, don't you think? Cry me a river, jerry richardson. Until you DO something DEFINITIVE about this, your crocodile tears mean NOTHING.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)lastlib
(23,208 posts)If the Jovan Belcher incident last year wasn't a wake-up call to these knuckle-dragging knucleheads, then they need to go the way of the dodos, and just go away.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Is he a robot?
kentauros
(29,414 posts)"Exterminate!"