Ndamukong Suh suspended...? Just in case you do not know who Suh is, he is the Detroit Lions Defensive leader who deliberately stomped on a Green Bay Packer while on the he was on the ground after Suh had tackled him. Suh was suspended for two games without pay and maybe fined another $50,000.00. Since moving to North Carolina my football allegiances have been the Carolina Panthers, then the Detroit LIons, then everyone else. As a fan of the Lions I am not just dissappointed in Suh's brutality, I am outraged that the Lions themselves did not discipline Suh. Unpaid suspension for the whole season or firing Suh would have been more appropriate. But football is a brutal sport, you say, so whats the problem? Yes football is a brutal sport but it also has its rules within which physical play is governed. People often want to claim that things should be fair, yet if it will get your team ahead, or improve your situation to cheat, or break the rules then we are supposed to overlook the rules or the violation of them. The actions of Suh shows that not only does he not accept the restrictions of rules, but shows that as a man he has a lack of control over his emotions and an extreme lack of character. But worse it shows that the Lions organization is no different than Suh.
If this kind of behavior was just limited to a few unruly athletes maybe it could be overlooked but this attitude of lawlessness is becoming mor pervasive in much of society as well. For example we are not to call foreigners, who enter our country with out following our legal procedures to do so, illegal aliens. But if they have broken our laws to come into our country they have come here illegally therefore, they are illegal aliens. But we are asked ot overlook the abuse of our laws and welcome them.
Suh would have been arrested if he had stomped on someone on the street, but in a game we are asked to suspend judgement. I for one feel he should have been fired.
If this kind of behavior was just limited to a few unruly athletes maybe it could be overlooked but this attitude of lawlessness is becoming mor pervasive in much of society as well. For example we are not to call foreigners, who enter our country with out following our legal procedures to do so, illegal aliens. But if they have broken our laws to come into our country they have come here illegally therefore, they are illegal aliens. But we are asked ot overlook the abuse of our laws and welcome them.
Suh would have been arrested if he had stomped on someone on the street, but in a game we are asked to suspend judgement. I for one feel he should have been fired.