yourself’s?

This is the reason why athletes get away with so much crap because of citizens such as yourself’s.

No, the reason athletes get away with so much crap is because they hire rich attorneys. College kids don’t hire rich attorneys. There is absolutely no indication that De’Shon Sanders is going to “get away” with anything. He’s just been charged with a very serious federal crime. If you aren’t capable of distinguishing between collegiate unpaid athletes and rich professional ones with expensive legal teams, then there’s nothing I can say to help you.

The reason people like Crabtree and Sesay will “get away” with living in the same house with someone who commits a crime is because it is not a crime to live in the same house with a person who commits crimes.

The reason that we have jury pools in this country is because of the risk that people like “yourself’s” (nice) will find their way to an actual jury. That’s a terrifying societal risk but, unfortunately, an all too real one.

There is no way Crabtree is innocent he just as guilty if he knew what was going on.

First off, what evidence do you have that he knew “what was going on”? Second, to the degree that the state believes Crabtree or Sesay aided and abetted Sanders, they will charge them. They haven’t. The garbage you’re spouting is simply guilt by association. Guilt by association, in the judicial system, goes by another name: Innocence.

You might as well be UT or OU fans let players get away with everthing.

If the alternative to being compared with you is being compared to UT or OU, I’m fine with that. I don’t think “fans let players get away with” anything, ever. I can’t collect my buddies and go march on Lubbock prison demanding the release of De’Shon Sanders. I wouldn’t if I thought it would help, because I don’t have any interest in helping that kid. I also don’t have any interest in reading some crazy fool cryptically state: “if you ride with an outlaw you die with an outlaw.” Grow up.

A tiny minority of both professional athletes and collegiate athletes are criminals. The conclusion most want to reach is not unlike the one you’ve reached: there is some criminal epidemic here and rationalizing incidents like the one above is enabling. The problem is, this conclusion is simply wrong. It should surprise you that violent crime arrests are actually LOWER for NFL players (considered by many to be the most violent of all the American sports, and one of the most ridden with criminals) than it is for the general public. You can be an armchair psychologist about it or you could open a book/study:

It is interesting that the NFL players, who do earn a living largely through the exercise of their physical strength — and who may even be seen to thrive on their violent encounaters on the football field — still seem to have a lower rate than the comparable general population.

Apparently that isn’t limited to violent crimes:

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, since the year 2000, an average of one in 45 NFL players gets arrested. Comparatively speaking, that number is one in 23 non-football playing citizens, according to the FBI. Approximately one third of those NFL arrests stem from some form of drunken driving. The drunken driving arrest rate of NFL players in one in 144, compared to a national rate of one in 135.

So NFL players, who if the newspaper coverage is any indication never drive SOBER, actually get arrested for DWI less than the average citizen. And NFL players, who the vast, vast majority of were, at some point, collegiate athletes, are about half as likely to be arrested as you or I, statistically speaking. If judging needs be done here, it should be Michael Crabtree waving a finger at you, the non-football player.

I know it must be much easier to sit at home and point fingers and blame and judge and do all those things our current civilization has gone to great lengths to keep people like you from actually doing, especially since dismantling our biases and prejudices about athletes and crime would require a huge investment of time in reading and research and appreciation for logic and nuance. Sounds boring. You’re probably better off sitting at home drinking beers and yelling at the TV about those damned athletes always criminalizing and selling the hooch and bla bla bla bla. It’s easier that way. It’s not true, mind you, but ignorance can be a whole lot of fun, too.

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