Did I think it was hypocritical that a professional league making hundreds of millions of dollars off beer sponsorships was telling me not to drink? Yes.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I thought that the league-imposed restriction on drinking had expired at the end of the regular season.
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
I drank beer, and I had a career year.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
Once you get involved with bloodsport litigation, you can not only get drunk on your own greed but start to believe your own lies.
In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.
They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.