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Get over your glee.
Get over your incorrectness first.
Schadenfreude.
It's a German word that means, basically, the mass glee people feel when someone else is brought down.
Incorrect. This is a Middle English word that means, basically, what you are saying is untrue or wrong. You embody this word right now when writing this article.
Pacman has been a serial idiot, a criminal and a bully and an utter waste of oxygen since he got to the NFL. He was a serial idiot at West Virginia, too. He's a bad guy. I know it. You know it. So when he gets brought down, as Roger Goodell brought him down this week ... schadenfreude.
Gregg Doyel takes a page out of Jemele Hill's book and just assume he knows how everyone is feeling about Pacman Jones. Nobody felt glee at Pacman Jones being brought down, unless you hate the Cowboys, which I do. If my brother played for the Cowboys I would not cheer for him. That is just how I feel. I am glad the Cowboys lost a cornerback/returner, I am not happy about what happened to Pacman.
But it's wrong. Roger Goodell was wrong then. You're wrong now. The whole thing is wrong, and I'm a little unnerved at having to be the one to point this out.
No one is feeling glee personally about Pacman Jones being "brought down."
You should be more unnerved that you actually think you can put words into the world's mouth. It is called a God complex and you have just acquired one.
Some day, someone is going to die around Pacman Jones. I'm not saying he'll be the killer, or the cause. But he'll be in the vicinity. Somehow he'll be around. Because he's a s--- magnet, and not just for himself. Everyone around him gets splattered.
Considering someone has already gotten paralyzed around him, I would bet this to be true.
I love me some Roger Goodell.
But I don't love this.
What he did to Pacman Jones smacks of a rush to judgment, of double-jeopardy, of abject cruelty. He pandered to the public, inviting one and all to enjoy some schadenfreude at Pacman Jones' expense.
Let's go through this line by line:
Gregg Doyel says someone is going to die around Pacman, but for Roger Goodell to suspend him for four games is a rush to judgment. What if it is one of Pacman's teammates that dies around him or his bodyguard for the Cowboys? Was it a rush to judgment then? What anyone dies around Pacman? Still a rush to judgment? These are the things Goodell has to think about.
Gregg Doyel says this is double jeopardy. It is not a court of law and Goodell suspended Pacman last year and reinstated him this year on the premise he would get suspended again unless he could avoid off the field trouble. He did not avoid off the field trouble, so he is suspended, so your "double jeopardy" complaint makes no sense.
Gregg Doyel says this is abject cruelty. How can he think this is abject cruelty when the paragraph above stated he thought someone was going to DIE around Pacman one day. See, as a society we try to avoid people dying unnecessarily, and the best way the commissioner saw to avoid further problems was to take away his ability to play football. Not cruel, this is a punishment.
I bet Gregg was the whiniest child ever.
Pacman has been held to an impossible standard,
Impossible standards: Cure cancer, learn to fly, pilot a spaceship, and hating puppies/kittens.
Not impossible standard Pacman is held to: Don't get arrested, don't get in fights, try to avoid strip clubs, and try to avoid paralyzing anyone.
This wasn't a disaster. Nor was this a crime worthy of a quarter-season suspension and pay cut. Not even for someone with Pacman Jones' track record.
Agreed, the punishment was a little bit harsh. The reason for this is similar to California's "Three Strikes" Law where because Pacman had previous indiscretions, the penalty was harsher for him. It actually makes sense in that context.
Goodell's suspension of Pacman Jones smacks of piling on, of punishing him again for all those misdeeds -- alleged and real -- that led to his 17-month suspension in the first place. Goodell lifted that suspension roughly six weeks ago, and now this. Now Pacman gets into more trouble.
Exactly, I am glad that you finally understand Gregg. Pacman has shown a continued pattern of not being able to handle himself appropriately in society, so the need for further punishment was seen as fit. So Roger Goodell was ri...ri...right?
A one-game suspension, a reminder to Pacman to mind his business at all times off the field, would have been punitive and fair. A four-game suspension, at a minimum? That's punitive, all right. But not fair. Not for this.
A one game suspension is just like having two bye weeks during the season and does not punish Pacman for his continued poor behavior. It would have been fair when not in conjunction with his past behavior, but taking that into account and it seems like one game is a bit light.
You can't just take this one incident and isolate it from the rest of Pacman Jones's transgressions. Just like you can't judge a coach's performance in one year to decide to keep that coach or not, it has to be a part of a larger picture. That larger picture is what Roger Goodell was looking at.
If Goodell wanted to be done with Pacman after all those arrests when Jones was at Tennessee -- including a still-unclear incident in Las Vegas in which Pacman was probably involved and a man was definitely paralyzed -- then Goodell should have done it then. Expel him from the league. Banish him.
First, Gregg gets pissy with the commissioner because he gives out a four game suspension where Pacman's role was definitely clear and Gregg thinks it is too punitive. Then, Gregg gets pissy because the commissioner did not expel Pacman for an incident where his involvement is still not completely known. Basically, Gregg Doyel thinks a person should not be given a second chance in life. One strike and you are out. If that person gets a second chance, then they should be given multiple more opportunities to prove they are a moron...with smaller and smaller penalties.
Basically if Gregg Doyel were a doctor he would either amputate an injured leg or refuse to do any surgery if the leg is not amputated.
But Goodell didn't do that. He let Pacman back, and six weeks later Pacman embarrassed him. So Goodell retaliated. Goodell retaliated, and we cheered. Look at Pacman! What a loser. A big glass of schadenfreude for everyone.
Just don't choke on it.
Goodell let Pacman back into football because he is trying to be fair and give Pacman a second chance. He also did so with some rules that Pacman had to agree to or he was going to be suspended. Pacman broke Goodell's rules and Goodell enforced a punishment on Pacman. Gregg Doyel thinks everybody cheered at this because he is a moron.
I hope Gregg chokes on a chicken bone. Do you know who should be expelled from the league permanently?
Leonard Little.
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