Boneheads – - NFL Variety

Perusing my clipboard document where I keep material for these rants, I think I have sufficient material to dedicate an entire rant today to a few NFL players who have been boneheads over the past weeks. I will not dwell on Washington Redskins’ starters, Fred Davis and Trent Williams, who failed three substance abuse tests and found themselves suspended for the final four games of the season – - save for a brief mention of Williams later on. Theirs is merely garden-variety boneheadedness born of youth and a life of entitlement. No, I think there are a few bigger issues to deal with here. Let me start with Sam Hurd and the charges that he was caught in a drug sting trying to order 5 to 10 kilos of coke a week to distribute in the Chicago area along with a thousand pounds of marijuana. I do not want to get into even the slightest debate over “drug laws and drug legalization”; that debate belongs in a different forum. The fact of the matter is that in 2011 – - when th...