rity of legal corporation’s in America, the he NFL should consider enforcing stricter punishments on players violating its drug policy.In most professional jobs in America, if one gets caught using drugs once, it’s likely that person will be fired, and may have trouble acquiring another professional job the rest of his/her life. For example, Larry Webster, a Cleveland Brown’s player, has tested positive to drugs several times. He has played for many teams. He keeps getting caught abusing drugs, and teams keep signing him to large money contracts (Williams 62). If a player gets caught using drugs more then once, he should probably be permanently suspended from the league forever. If the NFL’s drug policy became harsher on the players, the severe magnitude of the consequences would scare them away. The NFL’s drug policy is not only a drug policy. It is also an alcohol policy. If a player is arrested for any crime with alcohol involved, the player must enter the NFL’s drug and alcohol program. The NFL should not be as strict on the players involved in alcohol violations. Brian Griese of the Denver Broncos was arrested for a DUI after coming home from a night out with some friends. He was pulled over and had a BAC (blood to alcohol content) over the legal limit of 0.1 (www.totalsports.net). He was arrested and sent into the NFL’s drug and alcohol abuse program. When Griese was arrested, the whole country found out about it the very next day. If a teacher gets arrested for a DUI, their employer probably doesn’t ever find out and their life doesn’t get changed that much. Many people every day get arrested for DUI’s and that doesn’t mean that they have an alcohol problem. The NFL should let the players be punished by the local authorities and not by the NFL commissioner and his policies. The NFL commissioner should focus on drugs causing bigger problems to our soc...
