Stallworth?

If what you say is true then I have no problem with him…Thanks PO.

enlightening.

It’s amazing what I learn from MHR posters that receives little or no coverage elsewhere.

Still, there are excellent counters.

1) Perhaps the victim should have been at fault, and perhaps anyone would have hit the victim. But we’ll never know, will we? Because Stallworth made the decision to drink and drive, the victim’s family will never know if the victiom would be alive today if Stallworth had all of his senses in play. (And the court agreed on this point – it was determined that Stallworth was at fault, NOT the victim).

2) “Visible impairment” means nothing in terms of medicine or the law. It is a term used in law enforcement as part of a justification for testing. Whether a person appears to be impaired or not does not diminish from the fact that the person had enough alchohol in their system to such an extent that he should not have been driving.

3) “We’re not talking about a guy that was hammered and carefree about it. He most likely had no idea that he was legally impaired.” I work in law enforcement. With great respect, I would say that this is the case in nearly 99% of drunk driving cases. Nearly 100% of the drunk drivers I encounter insist they aren’t drunk, and about half don’t “appear” to be drunk (despite the fact that their car has just destroyed something). These are just my own numbers, so you may take them with a grain of salt. Still, I would invite readers to “ride along” with their local police (if there is such a program in your area) and see for yourself.

4) I will give Predominantly Orange FULL credit on his last point. Stallworth was a man about his situation by doing everything possible to make the situation as right as he could. While Stallworth gets ZERO credit in my book for making a conscious decision to drink and drive, and while he is guilty for what he did, I think that his reaction demonstrates a level of morality one rarely sees from a DUI offender. For that reason, I support the notion that Stallworth’s debt is paid, and (by law and by the NFL’s own decision) he should be allowed back into football.

I would be fine with him on our team, so long as we had a zero tolerance policy for any alcohol related mishaps in his future. I’m pretty strict in my views on player behavior, but Stallworth doesn’t fit the mold of repeat offender in my own opinion.