Quote:<b>Anheuser-Busch statement:</b>


 

We are disappointed and increasingly concerned by the recent incidents that have overshadowed this NFL season. We are not yet satisfied with the league’s handling of behaviors that so clearly go against our own company culture and moral code. We have shared our concerns and expectations with the league.


 


 


 

The guantlet has been thrown down by the largest NFL advertiser.


I expect that the NFLPA and the League will march hand in hand on this.


No good in killing the Goose that lays the Golden Egg.


 

Deactivating AP is just the beginning.


There is going to be a painful learning experience ahead as a Jock Culture is about to be changed quickly.


Culture is naturally slow to change when you have been immortal since middle school.


Behavior will change when the money dries up overnight.


 

I expect that there will be indefinate and lifetime suspensions in the future.


Will 8 game suspensions become the norm?


 

 

 

I am suprised that it took this long.


 

HeadSlap

 

Why are you surprised?  There was never any real outrage over suspensions in the past, and most of it was a fairly selfish reason.  People wanted to see their teams and players play.  People complained that Goodell was too harsh before any of this happened and that people were being suspended for too many games for the things they were doing.  Now somehow people want to forget all of that and act like in one instance Goodell didnt do enough.  At the end of this, people are going to be glad Goodell was there to enforce the penalty for the stupidity of its players.

 

There was a little outrage about the Ray Rice issue when it first came out and that two games wasn't enough.  People were going to move on from that though and it was going to happen quietly. 

 

The Ray Rice video changed it all.  If that video never came out, Adrian Peterson would be playing this week and probably last...without a doubt.

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