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Originally Posted by #56fanatic
This is exactly why the athletes are the way they are. Or any troubles kids now. people want to point the blaim in so many different directions instead of where they belong. Pacman and Henry are adults. They know whats right and whats wrong. carrying weed, beating up strippers and shooting guns, going 100 MPH while drinking!! any adult should know those are things that will get you in trouble. I dont feel sorry or believe this blaim the environment they lived in crap. They used their athletic gifts to get out of those situations. Now, they have all the money in the world and end up making the same stupid mistakes they made before. you have all the money in the world, that doesn't give you a pass to act like the biggest dumb ass in the world. These guys should pay for their crimes. Too many athletes get off with a slap on the wrist. If pacman is convicted of all the charges from the Vegas thing, being suspended from the NFL for 1 year will look like nothing compared to the jail time he will face. People need to stop making excuses for these idiots and hold them accountable for their actions. Do you think if any of us had all these run ins with the cops we would be sitting here typing on the Warpath.net?? HELL NO! we would be in jail or where ever. At somepoint when do they get treated as a person.. a normal person like everyone else in the country.
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See though, the thing is, I'm not saying he shouldn't be punished. I'm only pointing out that he never learned how to be an adult. The only thing he ever learned was that playing football well would make everything go away. Everyone has made sure this kid was gonna keep making them money while he was high school, college, any time they could. Then, you give him millions of dollars and think he will all of a sudden grow up? That'd be nice, but it's not realistic. However, I do agree, he knows the difference between right and wrong, I'm not contending that he doesn't. I'm also not, in any way, claiming he shouldn't be punished or serve whatever jail time he's sentenced to. I think the biggest problem is everyone enabling this kid his whole life, he was never provided the tools to become a functional adult, but that doesn't matter. He made his own decisions, he did what he did and now he's gotta pay the consequences. However, that doesn't mean I don't feel sorry for him.