Carolina Panthers Deactivate Greg Hardy Amid Domestic Violence Controversy

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Source: CBS News

"Greg Hardy, the Carolina Panthers defensive end who earned a jury conviction in July for choking and threatening to kill his then-girlfriend, has been deactivated by his team ahead of Sunday's matchup against the Detroit Lions.

The team has not yet explained why Hardy, who had a sack in their week 1 game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, won't be playing.

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Panthers owner Jerry Richardson spoke out tearfully against domestic violence last week, but the team has largely not publicly addressed their stance regarding Hardy.

"And when it comes to domestic violence, my stance is not one of indifference. I stand firmly against domestic violence, plain and simple," Richardson said."To those who would suggest that we've been too slow to act, I ask that you consider not to be too quick to judge. Over the course of our 20 years, we have worked extremely hard to build an organization of integrity..."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/carolina-panthers-deactivate-greg-hardy-amid-domestic-violence-controversy/

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1. They should just end the NFL. It is not about sports anymore. I stopped watching

all sports after the first baseball strike, and will never watch them again. Someone (I can't find it) did a measurement of the time the media spent talking about sports related items and non-sports related item--both related to sports for the last two weeks during the Rice episode. There was twice as much talk about Rice than Sports. So let's just stop the NFL.

[freeplessinseattle]

2. I'm sorry you haz a sad:(

Life's rough, hang in there!

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5. Sad life? I have had anything but--

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9. Keep up the positive attitude, you'll make it thru football season just fine;) eom

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10. No football season for me for 20 years now. But you have fun.

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11. So why are your panties all in a twist about not enough football talk? eom

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12. It's the proportion of non-football talk to football talk. I don't

expect these football dudes to be as perfect as you. No reply necessary. Your panties in a twist comment reduces your comments to zero worth, IMO. Have fun demeaning athletes.

[freeplessinseattle]

14. wow, did I ever hit the nail on the head! Perfection=non violence & brutality is simply imperfect?

Yuk

[groundloop]

3. Better late than never I guess

I have the feeling that the NFL has no choice now but to become (reluctantly) more active in this. Obviously a strong stance against domestic violence should have been a no-brainer for many years now, but if everyone keeps demanding action they'll have no choice but to rid themselves of domestic abusers.

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4. Gee, nice to see they finally got around to it.

Big of 'em, don't you think? Cry me a river, jerry richardson. Until you DO something DEFINITIVE about this, your crocodile tears mean NOTHING.

[Sunlei]

6. States should do the same for their police departments.

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7. Great cartoon from Lee Judge (KC Star):

If the Jovan Belcher incident last year wasn't a wake-up call to these knuckle-dragging knucleheads, then they need to go the way of the dodos, and just go away.

[Kelvin Mace]

8. "Deactivate".

Is he a robot?

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13. Either that or a Dalek.

"Exterminate!"