Tribal Outkast
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They don’t care as much cause he ain’t a star. Now if he killed the chick it would be. Different story
Seahawks OT Chad Wheeler nearly kills girlfriend
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I meant more so towards the former players. But the NFL is inconsistent on punishing players when it comes to domestic violence.
Now you're just deflectingThe whole point of bringing attention to the situation is to put pressure on the courts and the league to properly handle the situation. Make sure that this doesn't happen to the victim again or he doesn't move on and do this to someone else down the road.
How is the story not "sexy" enough to be reported as you say? There's all the elements. Race, gender inequality, etc. All that plays a factor in the story. It's a lay up, but they didn't want to cover it because it's a bad look. When the races are reversed it's the opposite. Fame isn't even important when the story gets reported.
For example, let's keep the comparisons on the same playing field:
Ray MacDonald and Reuben Foster making the rounds for their cases. Neither were household names versus this case and the Josh Brown situation (a kicker). The NFL and the Giants worked together to silence his ex-wife even tho she filed 20 complaints on him (one of them happened to be at the Pro Bowl and they attempted to simply get her another room in order for her to be quiet). We didn't hear about the story til MONTH's after the fact and years from the previous situations.
Kobe vs. Ben Roethlisberger. After Kobe retired in 2016 you had several news outlets bringing up the Colorado case even tho it happened in 03 and the case itself is muddy. Then after he passed away they bring it up again in the media. shyt, Gayle King interviewed Lisa Leslie and tried to get Lisa to talk about even tho that wasn't the time, place or person to talk about that. They just wanted to be shady. Ben Roethlisberger has multiple rape charges on his resume, yet not one peep from the media. One player has his transgressions being brought up many years after the fact and causes think pieces while another had his buried the moment it happened and gets to have his career played out in peace.
Floyd Mayweather vs. Conor McGregor. The draw of boxing vs the biggest draw of the UFC. Mayweather had his situation with his ex-GF, but he went to jail and served time for it. This made national news. And they still talk about it to this day. So many people say that's the reason they dislike him outside his cockiness. They've been mentioning it every fight since but it really was obvious during the Pacquiao and McGregor lead up. Can't forget when Cari Champion had him on SC and she tried to grill him about it during the McGregor fight media session nonetheless. ESPYs voted Rhonda as Fighter of the Year over him to spite him and they took the time to throw shade saying "what's it like losing to a girl for once?" and tryna say Rhonda can beat him. Yet, Conor as had his own situations for beating up an old man and he now has a rape charge over his head. He literally just fought this past weekend, but did the UFC or ESPN make any mention of it during the preflight hype? Nope. They just spent 99% of the time hyping up his comeback and the potential rematch vs Khabib. Speaking of that, even after throwing bottles in the press room vs Nate Diaz and smashing a bus window with a guardrail vs Khabib with fighters on board, Conor is still in the good Grace's with the UFC and ESPN. They don't mention shyt.
There's a huge difference when it comes to reporting and it's not even the sports media. It's the media in general.
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Despite the heat you’re catching in this thread you might be right, hell this thread itself ain’t really as long as it should be and half the comments are talking about stephen a smith. If this situation was involving Drew brees or Aaron Rodgers it would be 50 times bigger.
dude is trash and there is no excuse for his behavior whatsoever. im glad the lady survived and hope she recovers mentally from the trauma in time
mvp_status
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ESPN didnt even cover it, there was a sub link saying "Wheeler is no longer with the team". You had to actually click and read the article to find out he beat the shyt out his lady
Its not that they didnt spend enough time discussing it. Its that they went out of their way not to discuss it, its a clear difference here
Its not that they didnt spend enough time discussing it. Its that they went out of their way not to discuss it, its a clear difference here
You Win Perfect
bow down
cac babble/deflection
I even seen a website where they said DV meaning domestic violence never in my life have I heard these mdfs abbreviate domestic violence ducking agenda here.. downplaying it in media etc they don’t care about us had this been a breh with a white women would’ve been world war 3 in media smhESPN didnt even cover it, there was a sub link saying "Wheeler is no longer with the team". You had to actually click and read the article to find out he beat the shyt out his lady
Its not that they didnt spend enough time discussing it. Its that they went out of their way not to discuss it, its a clear difference here
Dwight Howard
Superstar
At the end of the day this dude is a nobody. Media has no incentive to cover him, who cares what a practice league players does. This really isn't newsworthy because nobody knows this guy. Dude is likely out the league for good and got arrested so its not like he about to skate away.
Mortal1
Superstar
throw him under the jail
Nah fukk that
This dude posted bail and is on house arrest. It took the media days to even say something and even then they're handling it with kid gloves by saying the reasoning behind it was because he didn't take his meds. They're tryna go the sympathy route for a story they didn't want to touch. This doesn't happen for a player who's black. The headline would simply read "NFL player nearly kills GF". Whether he was a star or not.
shyt, look at Peyton Manning.
Sexually assaulted a female trainer in 96
Trainer finally takes it to courts after attempts to hush her in 03
The media doesn't touch the story until 2017
It doesn't matter if they're the practice squad or a star player, the media outrage is different based on complexion.
Nevermind the fact that it's being reported as domestic violence when it was attempted murder.
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Adebisi_Said
Truth is Power
Lucky_Lefty
Dreams Are Colder Than Death...
Got convicted and it's crickets
