Just another example of the problems that can arise from putting athletes on a pedestal and pampering them the way we do in this country. Hernandez is an extreme example, to be sure, but this is what happens when athletes are pampered and bailed out of any trouble they get into. They eventually reach the conclusion that they are so important that rules & laws that apply to other people do not apply to them....and that they will somehow be bailed out of any trouble they may get into. As I said, Hernandez is an extreme example....but you don't have to look very far to find dozens of other examples of lesser criminal activity where the athlete eventually got off with a slap on the wrist. It's really no surprise that some of these guys eventually have the attitude that they do.
I guess Hernandez thought that anyone stupid enough to pay him $40 million after all the trouble he had been in thruout his life would also get him out of this. After all, he had already killed one person three years ago...and nobody did anything about it.
Somebody mentioned Lawrence Phillips. He dragged a girl down a flight of stairs by the hair on her head....and it was about the 10th time he had been in trouble for one thing or another....and he was reinstated on the football team before the season was over.
