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Thirty-day stints in the slammer are generally not pleasant experiences (at least from what we’ve heard). But for Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw, who spent a month behind bars this off-season, it could have been a lot worse.
Today it was reported that Bradshaw got extra perks in the poky. And now Adam Schefter of NFL Network is reporting that Bradshaw will not face any league discipline for the probation violation that put him behind bars. We still don’t know what that violation was, but Schefter reports that the NFL does not consider the violation to be subject to the league’s personal conduct policy because the violation pre-dated Bradshaw’s NFL career.
Bradshaw hasn’t spoken publicly about his jail sentence, and he apparently hasn’t spoken privately to his coaches, either. After the Bristol Herald Courier reported today that Bradshaw will have to serve another 30 days during the 2009 off-season, Giants coach Tom Coughlin said that was the first he had heard of it. And one team official told the New York Daily News that the Giants’ front office was caught by surprise in June when it learned that Bradshaw was going to jail.
July 31st, 2008 at 7:25 pm
Lucky he wasn’t a Bengal….
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July 31st, 2008 at 7:40 pm
So if you do go to jail, the NFL won’t punish you, but if you don’t then you get in trouble with the league right. I’m interested to see what they are going to do with Vick when he tries to get back in the league.
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July 31st, 2008 at 7:47 pm
More preferential treatment for a NY team. I mean Chris Henry gets 4 games for almost getting convicted? Yea that seems about right.
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July 31st, 2008 at 7:53 pm
So just to re-cap.. if you get charged, but no conviction(s) (at least
at the time of suspension), you get a year plus without income, career, adulation of fans, etc, even if you have
the ability to be signed by one of the so-called league greats..
If you are charged, and acquitted (or at least voted not guilty)
by a majority of jurors, and then have the charges against you dropped, you get at least 4 games without pay, fan adulation, etc..
If on the other hand, you cop a plea to running somebody over and
lying to the cops about it, or do multiple bits in the license plate
factory for some unknown conviction.. you get.. ummm
NOTHING???
Where is the outrage Florio??
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Hmmm, it couldn’t be that he’s Terry’s son from another mother and daddy is pulling some strings.
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:17 pm
On one hand you have a guy who is sentenced to 60 days in Jail for god knows what, and gets no discipline. On the other hand you have Chris Henry getting a suspension for 3 games (if he ever plays again) after having all charges dropped. W T F?!?!
I am not a legal expert but if you are sentenced to 60 days in jail, you weren’t J-walking. You weren’t driving drunk and nailing a person with your car. You seriously broke the law.
This guy is a scum bag and should be kept out of the league. If you can’t get a job at Target because of a criminal record you shouldn’t play in the NFL for millions of dollars, because you are a gifted athlete. What kind of message does this send to our already disillusioned youth??
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:22 pm
i hate to admit but who cares…this guy has done nothing wrong since joining the NFL and seems to have turned his life around….why do reporters feel the need to turn up dirt on everyone…
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Goodell won’t last long
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July 31st, 2008 at 8:55 pm
He was in college. If the league wants to punish players for college offenses (require x amount of hours of community service, have them enter in a state of probation, something like that) that could be a way of dealing with these problems early on, but there’s a difference between rules and arbitrary punishment, and punishing this would be arbitrary punishment.
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:10 pm
Bradshaw…isn’t he dead?
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July 31st, 2008 at 9:13 pm
You got that right. If he was a Bengal, he’d probably either have mugged a little old lady, run somebody down in his SUV, or robbed the pope at gunpoint. Plus he’d be a loud mouth punk who never won anything.
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:33 pm
that fat reporter is going to hate this. bradshaw can continue stealing his twinkies. big fat insignificant goof reporter.
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July 31st, 2008 at 10:44 pm
galenrox, see Frostee Rucker (a Bengal) circa 2006. He was suspended one game (later appealed to a 1 game fine) by Goodell for an incident that took place in college.
The precedent is there, just like there is a precedent that Goodell has no interest in being fair and consistent with any of his rulings.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:05 pm
You’re right, that is pretty dumb.
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July 31st, 2008 at 11:45 pm
So, sports fans…when are we gonna actually quit wasting our time reading this site and bitchin’ about how the NFL is goin’ down the shitter and DO somethin’ about it? What, you ask? How about shutting off the tube on Sundays and sending a message that the Commish can’t overlook…the FANS still control this sport!
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August 1st, 2008 at 12:16 am
Cause I realistically don’t care that much.
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August 1st, 2008 at 1:26 am
for all you ignorant people who are commenting on this, why dont you look up the facts before you make yourselves look stupid by comparing him to henry or vick. The guy got in trouble before he even got to the nfl and it wasnt because of a dui or making it rain on a couple of strippers in a club. it was for stealing a ps2. if you pay any attention at all he has cleaned up his act and has served his punishment. so kindly shut the hell up.
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August 1st, 2008 at 8:57 am
sw11, grow a brain and look 4 posts above you.
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August 1st, 2008 at 9:06 am
sw11,
the facts are that the league HAS previously taken action against a player for something he did in college. As Florioisadumb1 noted, Frostee Rucker was disciplined by the league for an incident which took place in college 8 months before he was drafted, because the case was resolved while he was an NFL player.
So, comparing Bradshaw to Vick or Henry isn’t the point. The point is that the REASON given by the league for not taking any action is obvious BS. It’s how arbitrary the league’s policy seems to be that’s frustrating fans.
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August 1st, 2008 at 9:24 am
Way to be consistent Goddell, you suck.
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