What Are You Thinking?

Over the course of years, I have heard numerous times the National Football League values protecting its shield. Well, the Indianapolis Colts evidently forgot that today when they signed Chad Kelly.

The NFL, unfortunately, has been reactive in the past in protecting the shield when handling criminal activity. Domestic violence issues have seriously plagued the NFL with Ray Rice, Ezekiel Elliott, Greg Hardy and most recently, Kareem Hunt.

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Next, add a collusion lawsuit for blackballing 2 African American athletes and the CTE fiasco. Then, add in Spygate, Deflategate, the New Orleans Bounty, and so forth and the shield looks pretty muddy.

So, why do teams keep selecting players who repeatedly behave in a criminal manner? Giving someone a second chance is one thing, but one has to be an ostrich with its head in the sand when the person selected as repeatedly shown you he cannot be trusted to do the right thing.

Chad Kelly has had his second chance. He has proven he is someone who cannot control his criminal behavior. Kelly was kicked off of Clemson’s football team for arguing with his coaches. In 2014, he was arrested for a bar fight. In 2016, Kelly was arrested for fighting at his brother’s high school football game. And then again, he was arrested for criminal trespassing for entering a woman’s home last October. There’s a serious pattern here.

So, what are you thinking NFL? What in the world is the Indianapolis Colts thinking? Maybe it is time for you, the NFL, to step in before there is a scandal in the league. Some of us fans are tired of the acronym: National Felons League. At least, for the sake of Mental Awareness Month, get the guy some support, structure and erase the stigma of help.