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.
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.
I got arrested for a dumb, dumb incident my second year in the NFL.
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.
