One Giant Scandal: The NFL’s Abuse Problem
THE ISSUE: The Giants cutting kicker Josh Brown after being accused of multiple domestic-violence incidents.
Many in the media are blaming the players who kneel during our National Anthem and the presidential election for the significant reduction in fan viewership of football games (“Kicked to the curb,” Sports, Oct. 26).
Could it be possible that many fans have become disenchanted with watching a large percentage of players who have engaged in felonious criminal activities being glorified on a weekly basis?
I, for one, have discontinued watching the National Felons League for this very reason. Ed Quinlan New Hyde Park
We’ve apparently lost our minds in this country
We have a system of jurisprudence designed to deal with those who break the law.
Yet former New York Giants kicker Josh Brown is being deprived of a chance to make a living without a trial by judge or jury because emails and journal entries that describe his mistreatment of his ex-wife became public. Nationaland Brown’s those Footballexilewho self-righ-from League, the teously applaud it, are more akin to the Salem witch trials than to any decent moral or legal code. How does depriving a man of his job and publicly scorning him help him to recover or benefit society? Michael Calmenson Princeton, NJ
It’s shameful and disappointing that the NFL and its teams seem to protect domestic-violence abusers rather than severely punish them.
Brown admitted to his team that he physically, verbally and emotionally abused his wife — and initially only received a one-game suspension.
In spite of all its tough talk, it seems that the NFL bosses give stiffer penalties to those who abuse drugs than those who abuse their wives and girlfriends. This shows they don’t take domestic violence seriously. Kenneth Zimmerman Huntington Beach, Calif.
mishandlingwith penalizesThe abusers,NFL’s end-zoneof consistentwhile dealingcele- it brations,The Brownis pathetic.case shows again that Commissioner Roger Goodell isn’t doing his job. Yet Odell Beckham was recently fined $24,000 for taking off his helmet after scoring a touchdown.
Meanwhile, the NFL ignores officials making a mockery of the games with false interference calls. Herbert Goldfarb Montclair, NJ