Should Lawrence Taylor be kicked out of the NFL Hall of Fame?
If he’s convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old prostitute, I say not only yes, but hell yes.
The problem, unfortunately, is that NFL rules don’t allow that.
As it stands now, you make the Hall based on your play. What you do off the field or after you retire doesn’t matter.
It should.
I know this opens a huge can of worms for any kind of Hall of Fame.
Ty Cobb, for example, was a nasty racist, By today’s standards, he would be shunned.
Unfortunately, back in the day, Cobb’s bigotry was all too common.
Drawing these lines will be tricky. It creates the possibility that a great athlete could be bounced someday for something silly, like not having the “right” attitude on global warming.
Still, that’s a chance I’m willing to take.
Lawrence Taylor has been a drug-addled creep since he left the NFL. (I know; many believe he was a drug-addled creep when he was in the NFL.)
At some point, enough is enough – and his latest sleazy charge tips the scales.
If the verdict is “guilty,” his Hall exhibit should be cleaned out that afternoon.
Think of the third word in “hall of fame.”
That has to mean something. Criminals are infamous, not famous.
Thursday, May 13, 2010
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Football is not for men anymore; it is for cretins.
Abhorrent as his behavior was, did he actually order up a sixteen year old or is that what was delivered by her pimp? The way I read the story, it wasn't that he asked for a child, just a ho for the evening. Why isn't the pimp in lockdown? Or is he and that's just been ignored.
At least he didn't try to stiff her payment, or beat her to a pulp. Or if he did, no one seems to have brought that up.
Runaway girls find themselves in this situation all over the world and it's a sad, sad commentary of our times and the men who use women like this.
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