Odell Thurman Denied NFL Reinstatement

[juice]

IMO, it is even worse than that. He got a DUI AND ALREADY SERVED THE PUNISHMENT. Why is he being punished a second time? That is what I want answered. Is it simply b/c of the filing of the complaint? Is it the DUI?

It has to be due to the complaint. Which is bs because charges were dropped immediately.
He was already suspended the year for the DUI. Actually 4 games for missing a drug test, 8 games for the DUI.

If he's really being re-suspended for a COMPLAINT, then this becomes an extraordinary blackmail tool for people to use against football players.

File a complaint against any Dallas Cowboy (because we all hate the Cowboys), make them pay you not to go through with it. If they don't pay, Roger suspends them. Pretty simple.

 

[fhmesq44]

If he's really being re-suspended for a COMPLAINT, then this becomes an extraordinary blackmail tool for people to use against football players.

File a complaint against any Dallas Cowboy (because we all hate the Cowboys), make them pay you not to go through with it. If they don't pay, Roger suspends them. Pretty simple.

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[quantumleap]

Standing alone, yes. Considering he already has a history, no.

So a person that has a history should be denied reinstatement into the league on assumptions? How would you feel if you had some infraction, even a minor one like speeding or some other traffic offense, and then a policeman pulls you over for an assumption of something you did. Since you had a history of traffic offenses in the past, should the assumption be used to suspend your license?

 

[WinningWand]

File a complaint against any Dallas Cowboy (because we all hate the Cowboys),

Easy chief!!! :discuss::discuss:

 

[Santo]

guys are suspended all the time in Europe for failing drug tests, Rio was suspended for missing one for almost an entire season, both club and international. Mutu the same.

This isn't a drug test. Also the drug offences directly correlate to the sport, these do not.

Rio wouldn't have got an extra years ban if he was drink driving during that time.

 

[juice]

some people are made an example of and he happens to be the one. This is good for the NFL IMO.

Whatever you let one do the others will see and replicate. 0 tolerance leads to respectable citizens. Look at America's court system and that tells the story.

Someone said Guillotine??

What? There was already zero tolerance. He already paid the penalty and is being punished above and beyond.

 

[tooran]

Just playing devil's advocate here, but it could well be that the commish has solid reasons for the suspension, but chooses not to make those reasons public -- perhaps for reasons related to the protection of Thurman's (and the NFL's) privacy.

It's not without precedent. Bart Giamatti gave Pete Rose the lifetime ban without citing all the gory details (which later came out anyway), calling it a "voluntary withdrawal" from the sport by Rose.

 

[oldirtyku]

Wow... That's rough... He is getting suspended for 2 years for missing a drug test and getting a DWI...

 

[Matt24]

sucks for us bengal fans. thurman was going to be a perennial pro bowler.

 

[juice]

sucks for us bengal fans. thurman was going to be a perennial pro bowler.

Don't know if he was poised to become a perennial pro bowler, but at the very least he was a big piece to that linebacking core.