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If it was a Saints player getting a hug the Saints player would have got 6 weeks
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NFL don't seem to have a problem with it
The players (who instigate these interactions by jumping up) do get fined for this stuff though, don't they? I thought they were super strict with all the excessive celebration stuff: the 'No Fun League' and all that.
I would have thought that when this happens , it's generally like a touchdown to seal the win and the players earn too much to worry about a 10k fine or whatever.
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Apparently it's in the rules as long as its only the player who scores
It's the worst bit being there was no malice in it. Nothing but love. But it just can't happen.
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Same bloke as mentioned here?
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If so, it looks like he was fined for punching a guy who was mocking a kid with downs syndrome. I'd say that if anything that adds to his "good bloke" status.
Empty stadiums aren't popular.
Can't the dude just rock up and pay cash for a ticket?
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We need to remember that the field is a workplace for the players. They consent to being touched by the other players within the rules, but not to being touched by randoms in the grandstands.
Even with today's facial recognition technology, I honestly don't believe security would devote sufficient attention or resources to spot him out of thousands of tattooed blokes who walk into the ground.
It's not like he's a terrorist on the Interpol most wanted list - he's some Joe Blow banned for a year. Security wouldn't have the time or care to find him. I think these bans effectively rely on the banned person fearing what might happen if they are caught circumventing the ban.
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Once again no discretion or common sense used in the most sanitized, strict, woke, pc, nanny state country in the world.
At least Australia goes hard on murderers, oh wait you 15 to 20 years if you take a life.
Messed up.
At least Australia goes hard on murderers, oh wait you 15 to 20 years if you take a life.
Messed up.
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What do you think would happen in a workplace if someone hugged someone else in a similar enough way to be comparable? It's fine to say it's not permitted, but what happens next? Any nuance to it?
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He definitely stands out because the rest of us look scruffy and uncouth
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There was no malice in it, the player wasn't concerned by it so i reckon he was hard done by, discretion should've came into it and the guy could've been reprimanded for touching a player.
He got off lightly already, could and probably should have been the full 12 months
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Mistake made, guy has admitted it was a mistake and is happy to cop the punishment, move on.
Jeez, where's the fun in that?
We must analyze it to death first. And offer many opinions.
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He should’ve been punished by being made to watch West Coast play for the next 12 months.
That’s what I call a deterrent.
That’s what I call a deterrent.
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Yeah, when the players choose to go and interact with the fansIt happens all the time after a game finishes, people reaching out to tap a player on the shoulder
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