The Dallas Cowboys are looking for ways to improve how the team handles drunken driving in the wake of two high-profile arrests and the car crash death of a practice squad player, a team official and former Cowboys star said Monday. Calvin Hill, who played six seasons for the Cowboys and is now a player development consultant, issued a statement Monday. Hill said the team understands the consequences of drunken driving, especially since it had ''recently experienced the most tragic of circumstances regarding the issue.'' ''The critical goal is to effect the decision making process in the hours before the wrong decision is made,'' Hill said. ''Our player assistance programs in the areas of preventing incidents such as these are at the highest level in professional sports, but we are always looking to do better and for ways to improve.'' The NFL Players Association offers a safe ride program to players, and every player's membership card carries contact information for it. The NFL can discipline players for violating alcohol laws, and each team is required to hold annual life skills sessions that include instruction on drinking. ''We will continue to draw upon the best expertise and resources available, both internally and from outside the organization, to work toward being the best in the areas of education, prevention, and effecting the right decisions,'' Hill said. Source: Associated Press
should not just be the cowboys,the whole GD league ought to make it a 4 game suspension when the player,coach or anybody else employed by the league gets caught!
Something has to be done, that's for sure. I think something should be done to the player, but the player will probably complain to the NFLPA about it.
The NFLPA needs to grow the hell up,and make players step up and accept responsibility for their actions! usually,i'm with the players,but when a quarter of them go out and do flat out stupid crap like they seem to do after their seasons are over,just flat out stupid,and what makes it evenmore stupid is the simple fact that they are a phone call away from nobody ever knowing about it and staying out of trouble,but the dumbasses don't take it! when lindsey lohan does it again and again,you can blame it on stupidity,but when a grown butt man with a college degree does it because he thinks he is above the law,that is 100 times dumber,especially when a phonecall is an easy way out!
