Judge to rule on Williams Wall

No matter what really happened, right or wrong, hate to say the suspensions are going to happen. Might as well get it out of the way now at the start of the season then towards the end of the season if there is a possiblity of a playoff berth to fight for.

These are D linemen with weight clauses. Pretty hard to see a steroid body in Phat Pat. He was dropping water weight, not taking illegal narcotics or drugs.
Look at each case individually. In the Starcaps saga these players should have had their merits as model citizens/players established and in the case of Pat and Kevin, warn them, probationary tests and let them go on.
They didn’t kill a man and get out of jail in 2 weeks. They just wanted to pee off weight.

You think it’s nearly over? Hasn’t Favre convinced anyone yet how silly that idea is?

Where that aforementioned court case ends is only where the next one begins. Until the Supreme Court rules something, it isn’t over. It’s like the playoffs, where McNabb is actually right, and the game won’t end until someone actually wins.

Constitution of the United States of America is the supreme law of the land, and Amendment X of it states only these words:

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Translation: If the Constitution does not assign the power in any area of law to the federal government or forbid it to the states, the states have the power to pass laws in that area.

We are not merely talking about the rights of any guys named Williams. We’re talking about the power of the duly elected government of Minnesota (or any other state) to have sovereignty within its borders and enforce its laws as is guaranteed by the above.

Defensive tackles are not goods and services, they are citizens, and the states have the right to protect their citizens.

As T. O. might say, bring your popcorn to the Supreme Court. There’s gonna be some fireworks.

I read that other leagues (baseball, basketball, and the Olympic committee) have a huge interest in this and are assisting the NFL in trying to get the Williams’ busted. They don’t want the Wall to escape, lest it become a viable precedent and ruin their own witch-hunts.

Personally, I think it’s cool if they want to have one standard for every sports league in the country, it makes a certain amount of sense. One standard, one overseeing committee that doesn’t act in a dark room behind closed doors playing arbitrary games, the way the NFL seems to conduct it’s policy. But do it after the fact, don’t bust the Wall ex post facto.