Why does the NFL let gang members play in there league?

I could care less where they come from so long as they can play and leave that stuff BEHIND THEM. Guys like PacMan Jones however, should never be allowed to return to the league. That guy is just a joke. I'm all for giving them chances, if they can play they deserve them, but it's good to see Goodell cracking down on the ones who screw up. You're getting paid millions of dollars...or at the very least, a few hundred thousand a year. You don't need to be running around with your thug posse of old anymore. Pacman doesn't need to be running around with drug dealers and gun toting thugs...Vick didn't need to fund an illegal dog fighting ring. There's plenty of legal fun you can have in this world when you're making millions, so don't **** it up.

ARE YOU FROM THE HOOD? I'm from the hood and I know better. So a lot of guys from the hood want out of the hood and sports is the way out. Some of them make it to the pros and can't turn their backs on the hood. YES, I think the league should do something if people have mad trouble with the law but YOU CAN'T DISCRIMINATE a person because of where they come from. AND EVERYONE FROM THE HOOD IS NOT A GANGSTER or THUG! So HELL YEAH, the NFL should continue to allow these so called "gangsters" into the league. They make sports more exciting and they give you something to look at. Would you rather see the NFL full of players from Harvard and Yale? HELL NO! I can't believe you even asked this ignorant *** question and wasted my time answering this ras clot thing.

The people that believe Sean Taylor was killed in a random home invasion are really naive. If the NFL is nice, it will spin the murder. If they are honest, you will hear the ugly truth. Then again, this is the league that couldn't handle Playmakers, so let's say this will be spun into a burglary gone bad, and the suckers will buy it hook, line and sinker.

that is the dumbest thing i have ever read on here. you are ignorant . just because they grew up in the "hood" they are gang members? what in the hell is that? come on man think before you write things so everyone can see.

you DO NOT know that he died from gang violence! that dang romo was an ol' mexican mafia member from way back. marvin harrison is a crip, always has been always will be....TO? he's a blood. brett favre? kkk...c'mon man.....youre better than that! lets say that goodell decided the nfl is infested with urban gang bangers. how could he prohibit someone from making a living because of alledged gang involvement? i would love to see those law suites. wow! nfl has security to try and keep illegal activities out of the league and i'm sure security does it's job. man, in the real world, they cant keep gang members isolated in prisons. in a free society how you gonna do it? tats? a look? what?

Actually, Taylor died during a home invasion. People broke into his home to rob him, and they shot him when he tried to defend himself. If you were rich and famous enough to own things worth going to such lengths to steal, it might happen to you, too. I considered the possibility that Taylor's death was a gang hit, but I think it's even more likely that he actually did die during an attempted robbery. Athletes aren't like other rich people. Most rich people know how to protect themselves and their belongings because they come into wealth much more gradually than NFL players (or they are rich from birth). Also, NFL players are even more obvious targets for robbery because they are more famous than most people of their wealth.

I thought it was a break in...I will have to read more about it, but I thought it was an attempted robbery.

If the person is a good football player.. it really doesnt matter. He can be a gang member and sure he could do some really bad stuff, but usually they just get fined a couple thousand... nothing compared to their salary. I guess you really do not know where to get it through to them, you can not really hurt them through their pocket books, they already have a lot of money.

iight im not sayin that you are wrong about there bein gang members in the NFL im jus gonna say that the NFL cant really tell people they cant be in it jus bcuz they were or are in a gang. If the Team Owner or whoeva does the scouting likes how a person plays and thinks he's goin to help them win games, he's going to ask a person to be on that team reguardless of there background. Now about the part jus because there from the hood they wont change and they are a "Thug Gangster" thats bullshit, im sorry. Imma keep it real im from The Hood born n raised, so does that mean im a gang member 2??? i seen how ppl are in the hood, theres some that ARE gang members so they go the easy way in life and try and get famous by going to the NFL or gettin a Rap Career or a NBA career...Then there are some that grew up in the hood and when they go get a real job (besides the NFL) they get judged jus bcause who they are n where there from so they try that to actually try and change there life and make sumthyn of themselves and prove to ppl that jus cuz your from the hood you can b sum1...then theres also people who are gang members but have no choice but 2 be in because they coulda been born into meaning there mom or dad is into it...so yea don judge nobody jus cuz wut U think happened to him coulda been gang related is tru cuz its not...read up on ur shyt listen 2 the news or sumthyn cuz wut happened was dis A day earlier, Taylor and his girlfriend were awakened by loud noises, according to family friend Richard Sharpstein, who learned the details from Taylor's girlfriend, Jackie Garcia. He said Taylor grabbed a machete he keeps in the bedroom for protection. Someone then broke through the bedroom door and fired two shots, one missing and one hitting Taylor, Sharpstein said. Neither Taylor's daughter, Jackie, nor Taylor's girlfriend were injured in the attack. ....so yea pay more attention 2 shyt next time b4 u judge sum1