He was 12? 14 maybe? I feel like our need to dredge up everyone's childhood and apply it immediately to their present is one of the worst aspects of our society. A guy gets drafted and the first thing the press does is go through 6-8 years of Twitter feeds searching for junk, with the explicit intent to harm him. We would probably all be fired from our present jobs immediately if our current employer could get access to things we said and did in junior high. Kid should have been smart enough to purge his account, but then again, we should be smart enough as a society not to make so much of something like that.Socnorb11 wrote:The Chiefs will be fine. Apparently the receiver that they drafted yesterday to replace Hill is very sorry about his homophobic tweets.
Chiefs are facing increasing pressure to release Hill, but that's foolish and short-sighted, imo. Take a look at what happened with Kareen Hunt. Video comes out. Hunt is released by the Chiefs, the "right thing to do". Hunt is picked up a few weeks later by the Browns, a team who could end up as a prime contender with the Chiefs next year. Who ends up punished in that situation? The Chiefs. Who did what was right. Hunt kicked a woman, lost some money, but that's about it.
The Chiefs aren't holding on to Hill in order to get through the punishment phase so they can keep playing him. They are holding on to Hill in order to retain his rights so that another team can't just swoop in and take him, morals be damned, and use him against the Chiefs. In this case, holding on to Hill centers the punishment on Hill, the perpetrator of the crime. Chiefs and Chiefs fans suffer to, but at least Hill can't just get released, get suspended and then hit the field for the Patriots in October.