Ex-NFL player defends family tradition of child beatings with bullwhips and broomsticks

[unhappycamper]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/ex-nfl-player-defends-family-tradition-of-child-beatings-with-bullwhips-and-broomsticks/



Shannon Sharpe speaks to CNN

Ex-NFL player defends family tradition of child beatings with bullwhips and broomsticks
David Edwards
21 Sep 2014

A former professional football player on Sunday defended the idea of corporal punishment for children, recalling that he was beaten with a bullwhip, broomstick, extension cord and even left in a hot car as a child.

Shannon Sharpe, who played for the Baltimore Ravens before Ray Rice was drafted, said that it was not reasonable to expect the NFL to take on violence against children and women.

“I think that’s asking a bit much because that’s not what the NFL was constructed to do,” he told host Candy Crowley. “The 32 owners elected (Commissioner) Roger Goodell to make them as much money as he possibly could. Now in the process, sometimes through great adversity, great change can happen.”

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The former player argued that eight of the 10 complaints against him did not involve physical violence. There was one complaint that he had spanked his child without cause. Another complaint alleged that he forced a woman to have sex, and threatened her life. Both complaints were later dropped.

[Hoppy]

1. --and look at all the brain damage that caused him.

[Inkfreak]

2. Proving you can put any idiot on tv and call him an 'expert'. (nt)