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Honed and educated to a fine gloss in our country’s universities…

… our scholar/athletes, wildly honored by their schools, go on to complete remarkable tackles in the NFL:

[Dallas Cowboy Greg Hardy] allegedly threw Nicole Holder, his then girlfriend, on a couch covered in loaded rifles and shotguns after tossing her into a shower, where she fell into the bathtub, and he drug her out by her hair and then strangled her with both hands.

The football hero with loaded guns on the couch and a girlfriend dragged by the hair and strangled … Nothing to see here. We Americans reserve our rage for Colin Kaepernick failing to salute the flag.

Aldon Smith

was arrested five times in three years with charges including DUI on three different occasions, vandalism, hit-and-run, and felony weapons charges, which were later reduced to misdemeanors. Smith was also taken into custody at LAX and charged with a false report of a bomb threat.

Chicago Bear Ray McDonald

was arrested three times between 2010 and 2015 and was named in a sexual assault investigation in 2014. His arrests were for drunken driving in 2010; assaulting his ex-fiancee, who was pregnant with his child; and once again for misdemeanor domestic violence and child endangerment. The latest instance involved McDonald assaulting a woman while she was holding his son, who was born six months prior.

Bruce Miller

has been arrested twice in the past 17 months, both for some form of assault. He was arrested in March 2015 for assaulting his girlfriend and breaking her phone. The initial report stated that Miller shoved his girlfriend and broke her phone after a verbal argument. Later, he stated he never shoved her, and she changed her story to coincide with his.

Then, this past Sunday, Miller was arrested for assaulting a 70-year-old man and his son at the Marriott, where he was told he was at the wrong room.

Before tackling the 70-year-old, Miller got thrown out of a restaurant:

Miller stared at the buffet line for about 20 minutes, then approached the queue and started arguing with guests over a sandwich…

“I believe he wanted their sandwiches,” said [a restaurant employee].

Giants kicker Josh Brown is every bit as great a tackler as these other guys.

His now ex-wife has accused him of domestic violence on over 20 occasions, and yet, even with his latest arrest, the Giants re-signed the 37-year-old kicker. Meanwhile, the NFL suspended him for just one game…

Margaret Soltan, September 7, 2016 3:47PM
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