New York Giants kicker Josh Brown is not a good guy, yet the national media is not calling for his job like they did for Ray Rice or Greg Hardy
The NFL is all about perceptions and it’s becoming sickening. Want to understand why, just simply look at what Greg Hardy, Ray Rice and Josh Brown all have in common and what they do not.
All three players have been accused of domestic violence, with both Rice and Brown openly admitting their acts. What they don’t have in common is Rice and Hardy have been blackballed by the NFL and will never sniff a roster again.
The kicker for the New York Giants has admitted that he is a “repulsive” man.
"“I have physically, mentally, emotionally and verbally been a repulsive man,” Brown wrote via John Breech of CBS News."
Yet in this same article, he claims his one game suspension wasn’t agreeable. Yes, a one-game suspension.
Brown reportedly threatened to kill his wife four or five times and the league finds that warrants just one game out of action? Hardy threatened to kill his ex-girlfriend and abused her, same as Brown, and ended up missing out on 15 games with pay and another four without before being out of the league entirely.
Rice was found guilty of punching his fiancé, who ended up forgiving the former Ravens running back. No one else forgave Rice and he was suspended indefinitely by the league for his actions. The league rightfully took a stand then against domestic violence. But for some reason the noise around Josh Brown is largely non-existent.
That’s an odd turn as the Dallas Cowboys were burned at every turn for employing Hardy after his incident. The owner was bashed and called a criminal lover and not one defensive play could be played without analysts ripping Hardy and the ‘Boys for their partnership.
Thus, the Giants owners need to be called out as well.
Yet with Brown—nothing. And no one is even pointing out that co-owner John Mara is okay with the actions of his kicker. He implied as much when speaking to Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News.
"When there’s an employment situation you’ve got to make a decision based on the facts and circumstances in front of you, and that’s what we did. And we felt that based on that, we were comfortable signing him. I’m not going to make any comments about the voracity of the allegations or anything like that. We were comfortable in making an employment decision.”"
Imagine the venom that would be spewed upon Jerry Jones of the Cowboys for such a comment.
What’s sad is Mara even oversaw the investigation into the Ray Rice suspension. Maybe that’s why the NFL doesn’t care that he employs such a person, because they like him and his team.
That would also explain why the league didn’t care when his partner and co-owner Steve Tisch wished Ebola upon the Dallas Cowboys during the outbreak of the deadly disease back in 2014. Tisch said the Cowboys would get the disease first, which would be their advantage (via Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News).
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So to recap, the Giants can make insensitive remarks about a disease that claims lives and employ criminals and there’s no real vitriol. Tom Brady “more probably than not” deflates a football and it’s millions of dollars of investigations and a four-game suspension.
Shame on the NFL for not dropping the hammer on Tisch back in 2014. Now it’s just gotten sickening that they’re allowing Brown to keep playing and Mara to back the kicker with nothing more than a one-game suspension.