NFL is full of it.....This is more proof...It has become the National Feces League.

NFLer asks cops to ‘take a s–t,’ gets arrested for DUI, loses job

by Jonathan Lehman Page Six New York Post September 23, 2016

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Austin Seferian-Jenkins was arrested Friday morning on suspicion of driving while under the influence — and was promptly cut by the teamlater in the day.

According to a release from the Florida Highway Patrol, a trooper was traveling in his cruiser when he saw Seferian-Jenkins enter southbound Interstate 275 going between 75 and 80 miles per hour. The release says the football player’s vehicle then cut off the trooper’s cruiser and began weaving back and forth.

Dashcam footage of the traffic stop, published by TMZ, shows officers talking to Seferian-Jenkins as if they are going to let him off with a warning — before he begins conversing with them in slurred speech.

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Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Austin Seferian-JenkinsPhoto: The Florida Times-Union via AP

“I just want to go home to my quarterback’s house, where we’re meeting, about to watch ‘American Horror Story,’ Episode 2,” Seferian-Jenkins said, perhaps revealing a late-night TV sesh at Jameis Winston’s place.

Once in custody in the police car, Seferian-Jenkins gets even loopier.

“I got to take a huge s–t. Am I good to take a s–t?” he asked a police officer, who implored him not to defecate in the car, saying he’s seen it before.

“Not me, I’m not that f–ked up,” Seferian-Jenkins said with a laugh. “I’m not gonna s–t near you car. But when we get there, can I take a s–t?”

Seferian-Jenkins, 23, is being charged with DUI and violation of an ignition interlock device restriction from an arrest in Washington in 2013. He refused a breath test at the Hillsborough County Jail.

Seferian-Jenkins was drafted by the Bucs in 2014. He has 45 career receptions, including seven touchdowns, in 18 games.

The NFL's Naked Greed

"NFL teams may have to stop ripping off their cheerleaders"

If the Buffalo Jills cheerleaders have to live by a strict code of conduct that dictates their appearance, eating habits — and even how they use feminine products — then they also have the right to sue their football team over lousy pay, a New York state judge ruled.

The Buffalo Bills had argued that the cheerleaders had no labor rights under state law because they were “independent contractors,” not employees.

Erie County Judge Timothy Drury disagreed, saying there was nothing “independent” about an official rulebook that governs the women’s personal and professional lives down to their underwear.

A section of the cheerleaders’ 2013-14 handbook titled “General hygiene & lady body maintenance” includes the instruction, “Intimate areas: Never use a deodorant or chemically enhanced product. Simple nondeodorant soap will help maintain the right PH balance.”

The book also tells the grown women to replace their tampons “at least every four hours” when menstruating.

“Always shower after a workout and change undergarments, the guide says, adding “Don’t use lufa’s [sic] or sponges. They hold TONS of germs! Throw them away now!”

NFL player returns his sons' trophies

"I came home to find out that my boys received two trophies for nothing, participation trophies! While I am very proud of my boys for everything they do and will encourage them till the day I die, these trophies will be given back until they EARN a real trophy. I'm sorry I'm not sorry for believing that everything in life should be earned and I'm not about to raise two boys to be men by making them believe that they are entitled to something just because they tried their best...cause sometimes your best is not enough, and that should drive you to want to do better...not cry and whine until somebody gives you something to shut u up and keep you happy. #harrisonfamilyvalues"

James Harrison has no use for your participation awards

Roger Goodell: “My job is to protect the integrity of the NFL”

"Depending on viewpoint, the NFL was either unable despite its vast resources to procure the same video from the Revel Hotel and Casino that TMZ somehow acquired and published. Or, as TMZ reported Tuesday morning, the league simply never asked for it in an effort to ferry out a lighter punishment for Rice."

Goodell, in the CBS interview, said league officials asked Atlantic City authorities for “anything pertinent” after seeing the initial security footage, which showed Rice pulling Palmer into the hallway during last February’s altercation.

“We are particularly reliant on law enforcement. That is the most reliable. That is the most credible,” Goodell said. “We don’t seek to get that information from sources that are not credible.”

WaPo

Update:

BREAKING: NFL: Former FBI director will conduct probe into how NFL handled evidence in Ray Rice case.
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 11, 2014

"Michael Sam released by St. Louis Rams"

"I want to thank the entire Rams organization and the city of St. Louis for giving me this tremendous opportunity and allowing me to show I can play at this level," Sam tweeted Saturday. "I look forward to continuing to build on the progress I made here toward a long and successful career." (read more)

"Ray Rice Apologizes Again, Says 'Wife Can Do No Wrong'"

 

 

"What happened that night is something that never should have happened,"

"It hurts because I can't go out there and play football, but it hurts more because I have to be a father and explain what happened to my daughter," he said.

Rice called his wife an "angel" and said he let her, her parents, his teammates and the entire Baltimore community down.

"I know that's not who I am as a man," Rice said. "That's not who my mom raised me to be. If anyone knows me they know I was raised by a single parent and that was my mother."

Rice was arrested following the altercation, in which he allegedly struck Palmer. Rice has been accepted into a diversion program, which upon completion could lead to the charges being expunged.

NBC Sports: "Tony Dungy elaborates on his Michael Sam comments"

"On Monday, the Tampa Tribune published Tony Dungy’s answer to the question of whether he would have drafted Michael Sam, the NFL’s first openly-gay player. Dungy’s 38 words triggered a flood of debate and controversy, and plenty of pointed criticism."

Excerpt...

“I wouldn’t have taken him,’’ Dungy told the Tampa Tribune. “Not because I don’t believe Michael Sam should have a chance to play, but I wouldn’t want to deal with all of it. It’s not going to be totally smooth . . . things will happen.’’

Back to todays apparent qualification...

On Tuesday, Dungy issued a statement elaborating on his comments. The full text of it appears here.

“I gave my honest answer, which is that I felt drafting him would bring much distraction to the team,” Dungy says.

“I was not asked whether or not Michael Sam deserves an opportunity to play in the NFL. He absolutely does.

“I was not asked whether his sexual orientation should play a part in the evaluation process. It should not.

“I was not asked whether I would have a problem having Michael Sam on my team. I would not.”

Michael Sam: "I Should've been drafted in the first three rounds"

CBS Sports - "Former Missouri defensive end Michael Sam became the first openly gay player in NFL history to be drafted when the Rams took him with the 249th pick on Saturday, but Sam almost didn't make history because he almost fell out of the draft."

Sam was taken with the eighth-to-last pick, meaning he almost wasn't drafted at all, something he found rather shocking. The NFL's first openly gay player said he should've been picked higher.

Whatever happened to "I'm just Happy to be here"?

Here are selected quotes from the USA today story "What took so long for Michael Sam to be drafted"?

Remember, sometimes it's all about image.

Had it not happened, if Rams GM Les Snead and coach Jeff Fisher not decided to draft the prospect who made his mark across the state in Columbia, Mo., about 125 miles away, it may have been a long, long time before a person came out in the manner that Sam did.

"This is a football decision," Fisher said. "We are very, very comfortable with everything about him."

Yet amid all of the back-slapping for the NFL, there's an essential question:

Why did it take so long?

Never mind that this is the first time an eligible for the draft player come out as a gay man. What would gay activists have the NFL do, in the absence of an out of the closet NFL prospect?

Why did Sam have to wait until a team used what is generally regarded as a throwaway pick?

Sam demonstrated great courage in revealing before the NFL scouting combine in February — under the pressure of being outed — that he was openly gay.

He also made an apparent great sacrifice.

The way I see it, this "story" is more about the condemnation of other people (the wrong kind of people now) who didn't make it happened whenever it was that it should've happened, rather than a celebration for a gay guy making a team.

NFL: Patriots Offer Jersey Guarantee

ESPN: The New England Patriots will become the first NFL franchise to offer rebates to anyone who buys a jersey of a player who is no longer under contract to the team within a year of the purchase.

If fans purchase jerseys from the team website or stadium store and the players whose names are on the back leave the team within a year of purchase, those fans will receive a 25 percent discount toward the price of the next Patriots jersey they buy. Fans, who will have two months from the day a player is no longer under contract to make a new purchase with the discount, do not have to return the original jerseys with the names of former players.

Last year, the team took the unprecedented move of allowing anyone who had bought a jersey of Aaron Hernandez, who is charged with murder, to exchange it for the jersey of another player. More than 1,200 fans took the team up on the offer...

Eagles linebacker: "My job is very, very different from your job"

"I get asked a lot about “locker room culture” these days. Ever since the Jonathan Martin-Richie Incognito bullying situation and the recent coming out of Michael Sam, it seems the media has become fascinated with understanding the inner workings of an NFL team. I’ve seen countless articles discussing how bullying or homosexuality is dealt with in an office setting and others comparing our workplace with the traditional American workplace."

I am sure an MLB clubhouse has its perks, hockey players must be really fun to crush beers with, and the NBA is probably, well . . . an interesting place to work. (Can you imagine having a locker next to J.R. Swish?) But in my estimation, absolutely nothing compares to an NFL locker room. I played a lot of different sports growing up. None of them quite creates the brotherhood, the camaraderie, the fraternity that exists on a football team...

What we end up with in the NFL is a room full of 65 of the most athletic, driven, and—let’s face it—reckless men in the country. Not many sane, rational individuals would voluntarily choose to play a game that threatens to take years off your life, possibly lead to CTE, and leave your joints feeling like rusty bicycle chains. What you do have, however, is one of the most diverse melting pots in the world. “Parks and Rec” has nothing on the character ensemble I work with every day. Cowboys from Texas locker next to rappers from L.A., guys blasting “Yeezus” on the stereo across from guys talking about Jesus with the chaplain, married guys with three kids next to married guys with three girlfriends.

Bill Maher has a funny bit in which he says, “Any institution where there’s no women around—like the Church, like football, like the Middle East, like fraternities—things go to s—.” I’d have to say there’s more than a little bit of truth in that joke. The NFL locker room is the ultimate boys club. Yes, we talk about horrendously inappropriate things. Yes, we make fun of each other. And yes, we have a tendency to take pranks a bit too far. (An Icy-Hot-in-the-helmet incident in 2011 cost one rookie a practice and earned me some time in coach Gary Kubiak’s doghouse.) But at the end of the day, this is not a normal job. Contracts are not guaranteed, career-altering injuries are commonplace, the average career lasts three-and-a-half years. READ MORE

There is usually, at the very least, two sides to every controversy. I like rare opportunities to hear the other side.

ESPN: "NFL to penalize use of racial slur"

"The head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, which monitors diversity in the NFL, expects the league to institute a rule where players would be penalized 15 yards for using the N-word on the field."

John Wooten, the head of the Fritz Pollard Alliance, anticipates that the NFL's competition committee will enact the rule at the owners' meeting next month.

"We did talk about it, I'm sure that you saw near the end of the year that Fritz Pollard (Alliance) came out very strong with the message that the league needs to do something about the language on the field," said Ravens general manager Ozzie Newsome, who is on the league's competition committee. "So we did discuss over the last three days." READ MORE

 ESPN.COM

“I think he would not be accepted as much as we think he would be accepted,”

"Coaches at the University of Missouri divided players into small groups at a preseason football practice last year for a team-building exercise. One by one, players were asked to talk about themselves — where they grew up, why they chose Missouri and what others might not know about them."

As Michael Sam, a defensive lineman, began to speak, he balled up a piece of paper in his hands. “I’m gay,” he said. With that, Mr. Sam set himself on a path to become the first publicly gay player in the National Football League.

“I looked in their eyes, and they just started shaking their heads — like, finally, he came out,” Mr. Sam said Sunday in an interview with The New York Times, the first time he had spoken publicly about his sexual orientation.

NYT: N.F.L. Prospect Proudly Says What Teammates Knew: He’s Gay

Incognito comes out of hiding: 'I am not a racist'

Incognito gives first interview...

Glazer: If Jonathan Martin was sitting right here next to you, what would you say to him?

Incognito: I think, honestly, I think I’d give him a big hug right now because we’ve been through so much and I’d be like, dude what’s going on? Why didn’t you come to me? If he were to say listen, you took it way to far, you hurt me. You know I would just apologize and explain to him exactly what I just explained to you, and I’d apologize to his family, they took it as malicious. I never meant it that way.

For transcript and Video of the interview go here - Fox Sports

For citation of the incidents that sparked the controversies over "NFL Culture", click read more