Breaking News: Browns to release Josh Gordon

[eaglesnut]

This is an utterly stupid argument. Rules are rules and Josh Gordon has to abide by them just like any other responsible human being. If I smoke weed on the weekends but never touch it during the week I can still be fired if I test positive. I agree to that when I accepted employment.

Good for you.

How about a history lesson for you.
In this country there were slaves from Africa and a bunch of rules around this profit producing organization of peoples.
Some broke the rules and got away.
It was a rule to capture freed blacks and bring them back to their owners. Follow it?
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
See how shortsighted and narrowminded that statement is?

 

[eaglesnut]

Which established fact are you shitting about?

 

[PhillyGreen]

Good for you.

How about a history lesson for you.
In this country there were slaves from Africa and a bunch of rules around this profit producing organization of peoples.
Some broke the rules and got away.
It was a rule to capture freed blacks and bring them back to their owners. Follow it?
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
See how shortsighted and narrowminded that statement is?

I thought your last argument was dumb but this is fucking stupid. Slavery is forced labor and slaves were not given a choice in the matter. Josh Gordon being drug tested was collectively bargained and agreed upon by both players and owners.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

Good for you.

How about a history lesson for you.
In this country there were slaves from Africa and a bunch of rules around this profit producing organization of peoples.
Some broke the rules and got away.
It was a rule to capture freed blacks and bring them back to their owners. Follow it?
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
See how shortsighted and narrowminded that statement is?

Ok, cool, and is Josh Gordon gonna be able to overturn those rules overnight?

He's doing more than weed if he relapsed, btw. Always has.

 

[eaglesnut]

Fine take the feds out of it, but the bolded agreed together on its ban.

Now tell me again about being ignorant.

Go to the next part of my post. Read about your ignorance there.

Hint: It was the league that came up with it.

 

[Wamu]

Good for you.

How about a history lesson for you.
In this country there were slaves from Africa and a bunch of rules around this profit producing organization of peoples.
Some broke the rules and got away.
It was a rule to capture freed blacks and bring them back to their owners. Follow it?
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
See how shortsighted and narrowminded that statement is?

Comparing slavery to Josh Gordon's self inflicted issues? Get the fuck outta here w/ that nonsense.

 

[eaglesnut]

You keep on forgetting the NFLPA agreed. Stop simply pointing at one party when both parties signed off.

They were out-negotiated and Gordon is collateral damage. Yes.

Which still doesn't mean that fans were deprived of Gordon by anyone else but by the league. It was always up to them.

 

[jarntt]

Good for you.

How about a history lesson for you.
In this country there were slaves from Africa and a bunch of rules around this profit producing organization of peoples.
Some broke the rules and got away.
It was a rule to capture freed blacks and bring them back to their owners. Follow it?
Rules are rules.
Rules are rules.
See how shortsighted and narrowminded that statement is?

 

[PhillyGreen]

They were out-negotiated and Gordon is collateral damage. Yes.

Which still doesn't mean that fans were deprived of Gordon by anyone else but by the league. It was always up to them.

out-negotiated?

NFL: We want you to stop doing illegal drugs and we will keep paying you MILLIONS

Players: Ok. We like Millions.

 

[eaglesnut]

I thought your last argument was dumb but this is fucking stupid. Slavery is forced labor and slaves were not given a choice in the matter. Josh Gordon being drug tested was collectively bargained and agreed upon by both players and owners.

How were they not given a choice to run away or not?

Some slaves chose to break the rule and others didn't.

I like the guys that got away.

 

[Fountain City Blues]

How were they not given a choice to run away or not?

Some slaves chose to break the rule and others didn't.

I like the guys that got away.

We gonna pretend that petty weed is on the same level as slavery tho?

 

[jarntt]

Out manuevered?

NFL: We want you to stop doing illegal drugs and we will keep paying you MILLIONS

Players: Ok. We like Millions.

NFL: We want you to wear a ballerina's outfit to the Supermarket and we'll pay you millions.

Jarntt: OK, I like millions...

 

[PhillyGreen]

How were they not given a choice to run away or not?

Some slaves chose to break the rule and others didn't.

I like the guys that got away.

You can't really be this stupid can you?

 

[eaglesnut]

Ok, cool, and is Josh Gordon gonna be able to overturn those rules overnight?

He's doing more than weed if he relapsed, btw. Always has.

No, I think we'll be deprived of his talents by the league's choices, present and past.

 

[jarntt]

We gonna pretend that petty weed is on the same level as slavery tho?

Yup, as ridiculous as it is to grasp...seems we went there

 

[eaglesnut]

Comparing slavery to Josh Gordon's self inflicted issues? Get the fuck outta here w/ that nonsense.

Read the post again. It was about rules. Not about Josh Gordon. Rules are changed all the time. "Rules are rules" is a naive, ignorant and mindless statement. As my example demonstrates.

 

[eaglesnut]

You can't really be this stupid can you?

I really do appreciate the courage they had to break the rules. You wanted them to just submit. And worse yet, you wanted to blame the slaves for it when others actually created the rules.

 

[Wamu]

Read the post again. It was about rules. Not about Josh Gordon. Rules are changed all the time. "Rules are rules" is a naive, ignorant and mindless statement. As my example demonstrates.

Why read the post again, to laugh?

 

[PhillyGreen]

Read the post again. It was about rules. Not about Josh Gordon. Rules are changed all the time. "Rules are rules" is a naive, ignorant and mindless statement. As my example demonstrates.

Oh we read it. It was just stupid. The original constitution did not have a rule that allowed slavery. In fact all men were created equally. People took it upon themselves to force slavery. The U.S. then instituted a "rule" to abolish it. Up until then there there were no rules on slavery until it was abolished.

You attempted to give a history lesson and you obviously don't know jack shit about it. That is why your point on that is so fucking stupid.

 

[Wamu]

No, I think we'll be deprived of his talents by the league's choices, present and past.

Do you think the Earth is flat?