Former Houston Lamar Redskin, Baylor Bear, and New England Patriot Josh Gordon sold his Super Bowl Ring for $138,000.00. Not sure of the circumstances, but Gordon has fought his personal demons his whole athletic career. I hope Gordon is living a clean life and staying out of trouble.
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I forgot he even had one.
Sounds like he’s doing okay…
He got exiled from the league for smoking pot.
Meanwhile, Goodell wanted to only give Ray Rice a 2 game suspension after beating the sh** out of his wife.
You can hit Mary, just don’t hit Mary Jane.
Jab-Jab-Cross>Puff-Puff-Pass
To be clear here, Josh Gordon was an addict. Even as someone who generally thinks weed is no big deal, most jobs don’t exactly take kindly to guys who show up to work drunk and high all the time.
(Ray Rice should have been banned permanently, though. And so should Joe Mixon, and a bunch of others.)
I’m a pretty long time Pats fan and completely forgot he was on that team.
You will never convince me that he should have been kicked out of the league for weed. It is a joke.
The NBA doesn’t even test for weed anymore. And it is becoming legal across the country.
You know what isn’t legal anywhere? Beating the sh** out of your wife. The domestic abuse policy the NFL had in place was a joke.
The NFL’s substance abuse policy was extraordinarily lax, even then; to get to a suspension, he had to test positive during the one-month window in preseason where the league is allowed to test for substance abuse exactly once and then test positive on a drug test administered according to a treatment plan and then test positive again. And he failed that process repeatedly, enough to get suspended for an entire season.
There are really two kinds of suspensions here: personal conduct suspensions, in which you’ve done something not befitting of your position (like domestic abuse or other crimes) and disciplinary action related to conduct that affects your ability to do the job. The substance abuse policy was in the latter category; Josh Gordon was addicted to weed to the extent that it was affecting his ability to do the job. He got fired for showing up high (and also drunk — one of his suspensions was for alcohol.)
Weed is generally not a big deal. The big deal is that he was showing up to work under the influence because he couldn’t put it down. Even in states where it’s legal, that gets you fired.
I generally enjoy the posts from @Joprior23, but not this time. To put this in perspective, the NFL suspended Josh Gordon six times for violating the NFL’s substance abuse and performing enhancing drug policies. Gordon is not able to pick and choose the rules he agrees with. The rule applies to all players, and if you break the rules there are consequences that were collectively bargained by the players and owners. After six suspensions, Gordon does not seem able to abide by those rules and the NFL had no choice but to suspend him indefinitely.
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