Duncan Edwards wrote:Keep in mind that in America you have at least the concept of a classless society so the billionaire owners are subject to the same rules they impose upon their millionaire players. What you don't hear about as much are the many players in the NFL, some of whom I have known personally, that are genuinely well behaved people. Either way the league is not interested in promoting a bad image or possibly being held liable in our super litigious society. As a fan who is at every home game of my team I wish they could impose the same rules of behavior on certain fans. I have been in the same seat for 15 years and am pretty much the Lord Mayor of my section. We have few problems as a result but that is not always the case in other stadiums around the league.
Not sure that "Classless society" and "Billionaire" sit well in the same sentence - although I'm enough of a realist to know that Utopia is a pipe-dream.
If the piece I read about Mr Irsay was accurate (and I know that rumours on the internet so rarely are), he was done for driving under the influence of pain-killers. Leaving aside the fact that I wasn't aware that this was illegal (I've driven home from the dentists looking like a stroke victim) I don't exactly see the link between painkillers and alcohol (though after getting home from the dentists, I did use rather a lot of alcohol AS a painkiller). Ah well.
Oh, and "Lord" Mayor? I thought that such concepts were anathema Stateside.
