Michael Vick, Dogfighting, and A Proposal for "The Brian Urlacher Rule"

I've been a bit too devout in politics, when I've promised more of a variety, which I hope this will be one of many more. (Besides, now I can count down the final days of this Presidency. Does everyone know that Mitt Romney's Team is George W. Bush's former team? So don't look at Romney as "an outsider". His posse is from the Beltway.) Now on to some fun sports chat.

I propose the Brian Urlacher Rule for the NFL. Urlacher was recently fined $100,000 for wearing the wrong clothing article! Hat, shirt, who cares? $100,000!

Everything else should go up from there. Dogfighting is a cruel, brutal sport. If you have a pet dog, how would you feel if you saw another dog kill it slowly by tearing at its neck in a death grip? What is the excitement in seeing any animal or person killed as a sport?

Chris Henry? Hmmmm.... seems a bit worse than wearing the wrong shirt. Ray Lewis present at a murder? Again, seem a bit worse than wearing the wrong shirt. How about players who beat their wives? Get caught driving under the influence? Beating up someone at a club?

Again, they all seem much worse than wearing the wrong clothing article.

So if that's worth a $100,000 fine, let's put that at the bottom wrung of the ladder and move up from there, including levels for suspension and expulsion. But anything else should certainly cost a player more than the $100,000 that Urlacher was fined for the wrong shirt.

(And I know the NFL's policy on "official gear". If that's more important to them than criminal conduct, then it gives us a sense of their priorities.)

By the way, I doubt they have to profile the Bengals, as Marvin Lewis is accusing. They probably just have to wait a day before one pulls up to the front door of some police car and falls out of the drivers' side door. Perhaps they should instead profile the Bengals' draft gurus. They could enlist them as police profilers. They seem to have a knack for picking misfits and potential felons and petty offenders.