[quote]Aggv wrote:
[quote]strungoutboy21 wrote:
[quote]red04 wrote:
[quote]chillain wrote:
[quote]Aggv wrote:
god damn you [idiots in the league office, your ridiculous attempts to legislate morality look bafflingly] turrible regardless but wtf. [/quote]
Fixed it for ya
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It’s almost like it’s still illegal in 48 states and was something the players accepted in the CBA. He’s a monumental moron. It’s not like he got popped once either. To get his suspension you have to fail numerous times(and then add in his college days…).[/quote]
Yup. When your employer tells you that you can’t smoke weed while being employed by them, then you don’t do it. The guy is making millions of dollars and he’d rather smoke weed. What an idiot. [/quote]
If anyone has researched his case it was a miniscule amount of thc in his system, and he would have passed had the sample bottles be labeled a-b, instead of b-a. Which makes the second hand smoke argument plausible, albeit ridiculous sounding. He would have passed the tests if he was an olympic athlete, but the nfl is much stricter on serious issues like weed, and beating up women…
The sad part for Gordon as person is that he cant be at the team facility. So he’s back with his knucklehead friends, and 0% chance he doesnt fail another drug test within the next 6months. I get not letting him play, but how about allowing the team to help him get over his issues instead of saying get lost.
back to your regularly scheduled grandstanding about “rules are rules, laws, yada yada, im morally superior to everyone” bullshit. [/quote]
First off, no the second hand smoke ‘excuse’ does not fly even with the 15ng/dl number. Not unless he was sitting in a fucking car for hours with his bros smoking up, or being in an enclosed area with them regularly for weeks leading up to his test. That I suppose is possible, but is probably even more retarded than just smoking himself.
Secondly, sniping this from another forum:
[quote]Chris Cooley (former Redskins TE until ~2 years ago, now DC radio guy and broadcaster during games) spent some time explaining the drug policy back when Fred Davis got hit with an “indefinite suspension” sometime back in February. It really isn’t much of a anti-drug policy but more of an anti-idiot policy.
I am a little fuzzy at this point on all the details, but I believe he said that all players should know when the tests are coming because they could only test at specific times of the year (for example, you know the initial test will occur sometime in June/July) and there were policies in place for how many times they could get tested if the original test came back clean (things were different if they picked something up). So if you could simply hold off on smoking for two specific months of the year and cleared the initial drug test, you could pretty much be high as a kite the rest of the season.
Additionally he added that when someone gets tagged with one of these punishments, it isn’t for just 1 failed test, but something like a minimum 4 or 5 consecutive failures over a period of weeks. Cooley basically summed it up with you either have to have a serious problem (and need some outside help) or you are complete idiot.[/quote]
Gordon is a moron. An immensely talented moron, but a moron nonetheless. It’s not about just about ‘rules are rules’(although the rules are the rules because the NFL is a business that makes money on corporate sponsors and families buying shit, something they will lose if they are seen as ‘endorsing’ weed by not having it be against their rules while it remains illegal in federal law), but about how incredibly dumb one has to be to break some of these rules.