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Originally Posted by Goldenfleece
I figured the appeal was so he could pick which games he missed. One thing that really disgusted me about the whole affair was how the announcers made Merriman out to be a saint. There they were talking about how he was an example to all the other football players out there because you could supposedly get banned for taking over-the-counter substances. You know, like how sometimes you go get a bottle of aspirin at the drug store, but it's laced with cocaine; it must happen all the time. Then they go on to say how it is so unfair that he won't be allowed to have contact with the team and how the NFL really needs to reassess that part of their policy. Yeah, I think they do need to reassess their policy, like maybe making the ban 16 games instead of 4.
So Merriman says he's "almost a victim of the policy," the announcers run with it, and we're all supposed to pretend that somehow some illegal steroids got slipped into just Merriman's latest batch of some heretofore unnamed supplement. Poor, poor Shawne. What a farce.
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Anyone who did NOT see this coming can raise their hands... hmmm just as I thought, no hands raised.
This is a very comon occurence, especially in baseball. If one has to sit, choose a part of the schedule which hurts the team the least.
The NFL has to anticipate these things and if they are going to issure a supsension there needs to be a system in place to avoid the manipulation.
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GO RAMS!!:l