Burfict Suspended

The fine will be his game checks for those games right Ray?I Could be wrong.

 

For the record. I am a lesbian and love Ho's
Time out. Just being a smart azz guys

 

Got a feeling him and packman will get in trouble in the off season. Maybe we can put a stripper pole just outside their locker room. packman will pull 55 into it ha.

 

Vontaze Burfict signed a 4 year, $19,004,000 contract with the Cincinnati Bengals, including a $3,100,000 signing bonus, $6,904,000 guaranteed, and an average annual salary of $4,751,000. In 2016, Burfict will earn a base salary of $2,850,000 and a workout bonus of $200,000. Burfict has a cap hit of $3,825,000 while his dead money value is $1,550,000.

 

Lol! Again I don't know what/when the numbers I found were.

Everything on the Internet is true right? Ha!ha!

 

I thought the fines were on TOP of the game checks.

 

I wonder what it will take for police to go out there and arrest a player for actions outside the "game". Just wondering is all. At what point does the authorities get involved whether it's in a game or not?

Hypothetically, if Burfict were to pull out a knife and stab an opposing player on the field, he would be arrested right then and there.

At what point does a player cross the line to warrant an arrest? I do not believe a precedent has been set for that but Burfict must be getting close.

 

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Same principle of police shootings: who would want to be a cop if you go to jail for defending yourself in a shooting? This is already happening. I'm sure it will be harder and harder to recruit.

Why play football? Risk of head trauma, debilitating joint injuries, and now you can go to jail for hitting too hard.

Frankly some of the comments here are getting out of hand.

A 3 game suspension is huge.

 

Morris,
They are Bungles. That's all we need to know

 

there was some serious talk of criminal action when Haynesworth stomped on the cowboy player

 

I heard when Burfict was cleaning out his locker today that Pac Man came over to the locker and started screaing MF'er, you piece of $&*!, we aint done with yo punk f&*^Ing a$$ yet, G*damn ***** ho! You MFin, S&*%, punk, SOB.

Marvin then said, Why you screaming at Vontaz?

Jones responded, I'm a free agent. Need to audition for other teams.

 

I guess I wasn't clear. I wasn't suggesting anyone go to jail for hitting too hard. I love watching some hard nosed football. Just wondering at what point does someone's behavior become so extreme to be deemed "outside the game" and warrant criminal charges.

 

With Goodell at the helm, probably not until it's too late, unfortunately.

 

there are sites the girls sign up for and get texted when a sports or actor etc show up in a bar. they race their trying to get knocked up and a big pay day.

 

It would be the injury and not the action. If an illegal act like stomping resulted in a player's ability to earn a living then a lawsuit may be merited.

Steve Moore settled with Beetuzzi for having his neck broken by a sucker punch. If there was no injury it would have been a game misconduct for Bertuzzi and probably a small fine.

If Maxx Williams was unable to play football any longer as a result of Burfict's hit he could sue.

No one is going to jail for anything on a football field but there could be lawsuits.

 

Not to be pedantic, but ... it's the action and not the injury (per se) that determines whether the actor could be sued. The injury factors into: (a) whether there is "legal injury" sufficient to permit a legal action (a bar set very low); and (b) the damage award. It's trespassing, regardless of whether I take one step in your pretty flower garden or spend the day Goldilocks-ing inside your house. But the "injury" is trivial in the first instance, so the case wouldn't stick. (Generally speaking, of course.)

 

I disagree. There have been multiple fights in the NFL.

Andre Johnson beat Cortland Finnegan's ass.

That is assault if it happens on the street.

"It's just a part of football" though.

If Finnegan had broken a vertebrae in his neck/visually impaired etc. and been out of the NFL then he could have sued.

The action has to be out of the norm for what is acceptable in the NFL but the norm is already violence. Fights happen every week in some game.

And I feel that any legal action would be civil rather than criminal.

Clive, are you saying that Andre Johnson shpuld have had assault charges filed? It doesn't matter that Finnegan was not hurt?

 

"According to criminal defense attorney Bobby G. Frederick, assault and battery charges are divided into three separate categories: third degree, second degree and first degree. The difference in all three is the DEGREE to which one person invades the personal space, or injures, another person."

Regarding assaults the injury is everything. There, now you don't have to be pedantic, Clive.

 

That's criminal assault, not civil assault.

Big hits are part of the game and a known risk taken by players. Illegal hits are a lesser part of the game, but they're known to occur, and that risk too is assumed by the players when they take the field. Suppose I dipped my taped-up hands in tar, rolled them broken glass, then took the field and came at you. THAT would be actionable, as it's clearly not part of the game and beyond the risk reasonably foreseen and assumed by you, the player. You could sue me regardless of whether your injury was a small cut on your ass or a horrific disfiguring of your face.

 

*Eye roll*

Yes, if a player was to go full Tong Po from Kickboxer that would be assault.

Very good, Clive. You're right.