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Lots of kids looked up to Jones. Youre right, fight fans are becoming more interested in the personal lives of fighters, but that's because it's becoming more of a professional, organized league. More and more casual fans are following and investing time in the ufc. I am just saying its a double standard... We can all argue that there should be a boundary between public and private life. However, there isn't. Think of the countless number of stars in other sports who have had reputations ruined due to their personal lives. Was just sayin that a good way to avoid this situation is to clearly keep your nose clean
There's plenty of examples that go either way... Charles Barkley famously said that he wasn't a role model, and now is successful on TV and I think he even ran for Governor in Alabama... Oscar De la Hoya, Ricky Hatton, that guy that threw a perfect game while he was tripping on acid...
I think it's safe to say that drug addicts get run out of leagues, just like they get run out of other less glamorous jobs... But when it comes to someone in the prime of their life partying, I don't see it as much of a problem...
We don't seem as bothered when athletes sleep around and end up with a dozen children from 10 different woman, if anything we make tongue in cheek jokes about it like with Cromartie when he was on the Jets
So society (i'm not trying to lump you into this group but just get this off my chest) says, it's ok to father children and leave broken families across the nation, but you're evil because you smoked a joint or did some drugs?
I've wrote it in other threads today, but to send some dope dealer to prison for 15-20 while a convicted rapist gets 7 illustrates exactly where our priorities lie as far as crime and punishment are concerned. Since it's inception in the 80s, the war on drugs has become it's own monster. To the point where it has created so many jobs in the law enforcement field and built a massive prison guard union that it's making it impossible to make any lasting changes... These people literally lobby for stiffer sentences and harsher rules because trading a persons freedom as a commodity offers them better job security.