Quote Originally Posted by dankrutka View Post
Wow. This is dated. And how is Carmello Anthony "gangsta?" He's hardly ever been in trouble (maybe a DUI, which hardly qualifies) and does lots of community work.

There seems to be some confirmation bias going on here. Even though there are 1,700 NFL players, people think they're all "thugs" and cite 2 examples while ignoring all the information that goes against their hypotheses.
What's more, there are actual thugs during actual professional sports matches. In hockey, they are called "enforcers." To me, they're just common thugs and need to be suspended for multiple games and pay sizeable fines. Could you imagine if a hockey fight broke out in the NBA? No one would talk about "the code." Metta World Peace wouldn't be heralded as an enforcer. We do know, however, what he would be called.