If pitchers were offered bounties to throw at Albert Pujols’ head and knock him out for a series, that would be a scandal beyond anything in memory. If we found out that Dwyane Wade was actually offered extra money to hurt Kobe Bryant in the NBA All-Star Game, he and the people offering the bounty might be suspended for life.
So what does it say about the NFL -- and what does it say about us as fans -- that this would happen in pro football, and there would be a vague, "Eh, everybody does it, everybody’s trying to hurt everybody in football anyway" reaction from so many? (via SI.com) , who concludes: "This bounty-hunting business seems to me to be unethical and immoral on about a thousand different levels."
And this: "Is our love of pro football — the spectacle, the violence, the thrills and sheer ferocity of it all — so insatiable that nothing will ever shock or disgust us again?"
So what does it say about the NFL -- and what does it say about us as fans -- that this would happen in pro football, and there would be a vague, "Eh, everybody does it, everybody’s trying to hurt everybody in football anyway" reaction from so many? (via SI.com) , who concludes: "This bounty-hunting business seems to me to be unethical and immoral on about a thousand different levels."
And this: "Is our love of pro football — the spectacle, the violence, the thrills and sheer ferocity of it all — so insatiable that nothing will ever shock or disgust us again?"
