No Idea Leads to No Ideas

Yahoo! Sports:

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and NFL Players Association executive director Gene Upshaw led a group discussion Thursday on how to deal with the recent spree of crimes involving players.

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Hall’s impression was that Goodell meant business, particularly after the latest incident involving Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam “Pacman” Jones. Jones allegedly was involved in a shooting at a Las Vegas strip club Sunday that left one man paralyzed.

“I think the commissioner means business on this stuff,” Hall said Friday. “He’s not playing on this. He wants it fixed. We all want it fixed. We want it fixed for the guys who are playing now, who are coming in this year and who are coming in during the future.”

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“It was a good, productive way of talking about several different areas,” Bowlen told the Denver Post. “We had a lot of smart, good football players who had a lot of good ideas.”

Translated into English, that means they had no ideas. And it’s wonder they didn’t, because they have no idea about the real cause of the NFL’s overflowing crime blotter.

You can’t solve a problem unless you define a problem, and you can’t define a problem if you’re prevented from doing so by the dictates of political correctness.

I have an idea about the problem, and ideas on what to do about it. All the NFL needs to do is lighten up.