Quote:How about innocent until proven guilty? That used to be the line. Then it moved to innocent until arrested,then the player had to sit out of competition. Now, any girl can make a charge, cry, go get rape tested, and a young man's one chance for a career can be ruined all based on a potential lie.


So at least set the line at being formally charged with a felony.

 

Do you really think him sitting for this one game has destroyed his career?  No.  The only thing that can destroy his career at this point is whether or not he is arrested/charged.  This has nothing to do with "innocent until proven guilty".  He's being forced to take a break from football TEMPORARILY assuming he is not charged.  It's a game.  That is the thing that seems lost with fans.  He's not being imprisoned, he isn't being held in a cell.  He's sitting from a GAME.  Him not being allowed to play in a game or two is not the end of the world, nor his career.

 

Nobody is assuming he is guilty by suspending him from football.  It's just football.  They are just taking precautions during this investigation.  If he's innocent, his career will resume just fine.  If he's guilty, well then I agree his career is ruined/over.

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