A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.
I won't be fining players for getting sent off.
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
The bouncer shouldn't be banned. Hitting batsmen, I'm afraid, is part of the game. But it's the histrionics, the nonsense, the prancing, the in-your-face nastiness. It's become accepted, and actually it's not acceptable at all.
As far as I'm concerned, this guy should never play football again. The answer you normally get after a tackle like that is 'he is not the type of guy who does that.' It's like a guy who kills one time in his life - it's enough. You have a dead person. This tackle is absolutely horrendous.
The amount of players who get into trouble in the NFL is a very small minority, but they are the ones who make the headlines.
They haven't given too many gamblers a second chances in the world of baseball.
I got arrested for a dumb, dumb incident my second year in the NFL.
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
That could have been his second yellow card - if he'd already got his first one of course
In the NFL, 31 players have been arrested just since the Super Bowl. In fact, a lot of teams are switching to the no-huddle offense because players aren't allowed to associate with known felons.
When I saw Rijkaard entering the referee's dressing room I couldn't believe it. When Didier Drogba was sent off, I wasn't surprised.
You've got a league with a couple thousand players or so depending on the time of year. Then you have 10 or more very high profile stories that are terrible stories and things that have happened.
