... culture is the lengths that we will go to defend the indefensible.

Jeff Ireland's question to Dez Bryant concerning his mother was indefensible. Yet a significant portion of fans, media people, and current and former NFL people are defending it!

The typical excuse is "if you are considering investing millions of dollars into a player with a questionable background then you need to take every precaution." That is an inherently immoral position, one that presumes that it is perfectly fine to demean someone just because you are paying them a lot of money.

Under that logic, it is just fine to be a prostitute so long as you get $1 million per encounter, right? How many of you would want your sons, daughters, husbands, wives ...

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