NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has laid the smack down on Pacman Jones and Chris Henry. Both were suspended for mulitple breaches of the NFL's personal conduct policy, Henry for 8 games and Jones for the season. That's right, the entire season. Both are suspended without pay. For Jones, that's $1.3 million he won't be making this year. Ouch. An excerpt from Goodell's letter to each of the players:
"Your conduct has brought embarrassment and ridicule upon yourself, your club, and the NFL, and has damaged the reputation of players throughout the league. You have put in jeopardy an otherwise promising NFL career, and have risked both your own safety and the safety of others through your off-field actions. In each of these respects, you have engaged in conduct detrimental to the NFL and failed to live up to the standards expected of NFL players. Taken as a whole, this conduct warrants significant sanction."
In other news, Joey Harrington is now a Falcon. He will compete for the #2 QB spot in Atlanta.
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Is that a sledge hammer I feel going down onto of PACMAN? Saying Roger laid down the hammer just doesn't do it justice. That was a freakin' sledge. An anvil more like it. Way to go Commish. I don't think Paul Taglibau would have acted as swiftly. To reiterate the words I heard on Mike and Mike this morning: "It is a privilege to play in the NFL, not a right." Amen brothers. If only more organizations as a whole kept the same philosophy in accountability. Oh, and another good way I heard it said: "You need the NFL a lot more than the NFL needs you!" Sounds like scripture to me.
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