Letters to the Editor
droogoy
Published Letters: 583 Editor's Choice: 9
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NFL business policies
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]King Kaufmann wrote:
Who said anything about laws or dictates. We're talking about the NFL's business policies, its treatment of its customers
I see nothing wrong with the NFL's business policies. As a separate network, they've as much right to bid for whatever games as any other network. Asking that cable services bundle the network with basic cable is also no biggie, nor does it contradict their NFL "Sunday package" as you suggest.
The latter is a special deal wherein football viewers - say a Packers' fan like myself -can see Packer games even if isolated in Bronco coountry. This is something you have to pay extra for, since the major networks (CBS, NBC, etc.( chose to televise games by region from about 1993. If I no pay, I no watch.
The NFL network offers regular games like the other networks and this has nada to do with the full universe of offerings on its Sunday package. So talk or writing about being "inconsistent" for demanding a basic cable tier for NFL network is no more off the mark, than say offering FOX on basic cable.
Bottom line - and as always -if people don't like how they are being treated (or perceive they are treated shabbily) then they don't have to watch. They can engage in socially more productive enterprises or take up a hobby.
AGAIN, no "law" compels that everyone must be contented with TV choices, footballe (or baseball etc.) games on offer, network offerings or whatnot. I could find umpteen things to whine about in the TV service I have, but I don't. Rather than bitch and moan, I simply pick up a good book and read.
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You're a dreamer
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]jonswift wrote:
If you have any proof he had "homies," as you want to call them, other than the fact that he's black, you go ahead and show it.
You're a hopeless Pollyanna and dreamer, pallie. Everyone in Miami knew Taylor had a not so savory past and yes, there were gang connections. You may wish to check out the link below:
http://www.boston.com/sports/articles/2007/11/29/friend_taylors_death_not_random_burglary/
Excerpt:
Meanwhile, Rolle said, "This was not the first incident. They've been targeting him for three years now."
Rolle said many former "friends" had it in for Taylor, who was trying to build a more stable life. "He really didn't say too much," Rolle said, "but I know he lived his life pretty much scared every day of his life when he was down in Miami because those people were targeting him. At least, he's got peace now."
Deion (Sanders) had the right take. Most of these young hotshot players get mired in trouble when they try to throw off the yoke of past associations. Sometimes they are actual members of gangs, in other cases they somehow get into indirectg associations for which the consequences can be just as dire.
You need to grow up and smell the coffee, and cease with the ostrich act- albeit it is understandable.
Hint: going to a "private school" and having a cop or law enforcement person as parent doesn't mean diddly or squat. And we already knew about Taylor's volatile temper - as when he spit in the face of the Tampa Bay Buc a couple yrs. ago. This guy was not altar boy.
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Asking for it?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]jonswift wrote:
But the implication of your comments and the comments of others is that Taylor was somehow asking for it, or that his so-called ties that apparently everyone in Miami knows about were in any way noteworthy.
Then you concluded wrongly from my comments. Since, while it is true that Taylor had an unsavory past with dubious associates and "friends" it is also true he was attempting to rectify his life and make it better - and yes, break those dubious connections. For that he merited plaudits, not a ruptured femoral artery from a gunshot due to a forsaken former "pal".
Let's get another thing straight, people are overcome by fear - as here in Denver, after the Darrent Williams shooting last Dec. 31 - no one wants to talk about it. YOu never know when the next Crip or Blood will find you. Ditto in Miami. Anyone who's lived there (as I did for ten years) can tell you that.
So it is abundantly obvious that words will only leak out slowly if at all, and the police info isn't always forthcoming.
Taylor on NO account "deserved" what happened to him, let's get that straight. On the other hand, had he broken his connections sooner, he might have lived - who knows? Same with D. Williams.
Deion made a good point in his segment the other night, that players have to be very emphatic in breaking those old ties - they can't diddle or leave anything in doubt. Sometimes it's hard, and people don't want to appear to diss former associates or friends. But it has to be done. Ask Ray Lewis. It took him over five years but he finally broke up and left behind all those old ties.
Re: your ding about the Miami Dolphins, I don't know and don't care. Speaking as a Packers' fan (and I do hope they will not disappoint me tonight!)