SmootSmack
11-08-2007, 11:27 PM
Does this seem fair?
Particularly Childress citing Reggie Wayne as a reason why Williamson should have played.
Williamson has been a colossal bust so far, and the Vikings clearly didn't need him this past weekend but that's besides the point.
ESPN - Vikings dock WR Williamson pay for family funeral - NFL (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3100835)
JWsleep
11-09-2007, 12:33 AM
Wow. What a bunch of asses. AND his brother has been in the hospital all season in and out of a coma, and he hasn't had much time to be there. Weak.
EternalEnigma21
11-09-2007, 12:44 AM
wow... docked for a feuneral? that's got to do something for morale on a team...
wilsowilso
11-09-2007, 12:55 AM
What a huge pr nightmare. Obviously they are sending a message to this kid who is pretty much a bust so far for being a top ten pick, but they had to know this was going to make them look like garbage. Bad move.
Jamaican'Skin
11-09-2007, 01:21 AM
The organization is heartless. Sure, he didn't play in the game, but the woman who raised him died. Shouldn't that be enough to understand where he's coming from? What is this world coming to when we can have no compassion for our fellow man
djnemo65
11-09-2007, 01:50 AM
I wonder if he was a stud if they still would have docked him? I am inclined to guess no.
JoeRedskin
11-09-2007, 04:34 AM
Wow. What a lack of class.
It not like he just skipped out on them - it appears he went to the team and told them what was happening.
Compare that to how the Skins have handled the Shawn Springs.
hagams
11-09-2007, 05:52 AM
Any chance the leauge could step in on this? The comish is so strong about improving the appreance of the NFL, IMO the team should be forced to give him that money.
No matter where you work, there's always comp time for this. I'm in the Marines and was on the other side of the world when my grandfather passed away, they had me on a flight in less than 8 hours.
dmek25
11-09-2007, 06:40 AM
i think there has to be more to this then what we are reading. if not, the vikings have set work place etiquette back 100 years
BleedBurgundy
11-09-2007, 07:02 AM
Yeah, who the hell do Zygi Wilf and Childress think they are? Can you imagine if you took a day off of work to attend an immediate family members funeral and your boss told you that you weren't getting paid for that WEEK'S worth of work? Who wouldn't walk out on that job then and there? Like someone else said above, this is going to be a huge pr nightmare for the Vikings. What a bunch of clowns.