Last week one sports page in the New York Post really struck me. Take a look. You'd think it was the local police blotter, rather than a recitation of the latest on our gridiron heroes. This is not unusual anymore. What strikes me as strange is the complete indifference on the part of sports organizations, writers and fans.
Talk is cheap, but actions tell the tale.
While the NFL and other sports organizations brag about anger management courses, we only have to look at the starting line-up for this year's Super Bowl to know what matters. A wide receiver convicted of drug charges opposed a convicted woman beater. A convicted thief was running the ball while a linebacker sentenced for negligent homicide was defending. In fact thirteen players on the field represented twenty criminal charges, an eleven percent arrest rate for players in the nation's biggest game. Not suprisingly, only four of those arrests led to convictions.