Gred Hardy Dallas Cowboys

Stephen A. Smith has a change of opinion regarding the Gred Hardy situation. In the past, he has supported the Dallas Cowboys on signing Greg Hardy, now he wants Hardy out of the NFL. Smith makes it clear that he never supported what Hardy did, but his rationale was since Hardy served his suspension somebody was going to sign him then why not the Dallas Cowboys. Machir believes that Hardy should of never been allowed back into the league in the first place, but only visual evidence should not change decisions made my organizations. He says the problem is we only live in a visual society. ESPN's hype of the Pacquiao Mayweather fight was huge for the network, despite Mayweather's long history of domestic abuse. Would it have been the same if

their were pictures? No.

Two days after Deadspin released the horrific photos of Hardy's bruised ex-girlfriend, Hardy went on twitter to apologize in the vaguest way possible. Tornoe states that if anyone actually believes Hardy is truy remorseful should go back and look how Hardy initalitally responded to the NFL when asked about those same pictures. The article then dives into the past of Hardy's non remorseful actions. A few examples, a league source telling ESPN's Ed Werder that Hardy never "demostrated remorse for the incident" and the "I'm Just Me" music video where Hardy raps about how he will never get played by a women again. Tornoe has his doubts that Greg Hardy is really sorry.

On ESPN NFL's Sunday Countdown, reporter Wendi Nix showed her dissaporval of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones. She goes on to tell Chris Berman that she doesn’t blame Greg Hardy for taking the opportunity that the Dallas Cowboys gave him, but she blames Jerry Jones. Shes then goes on to say, "I'm a unapologetic capitalist. I believe in big business and I am sure as hell in favor of profits. But at the end of the day, when economic principles can't be applied with even the smallest measures of social responsibility, there's one effective solution, and thats to let the dollar vote." She then calls out American Airlines, AT&T, Miller Brewing Company, who are the three major sponsors of the Dallas Cowboys

Even though all of the evidence and pictures of Greg Hardy's domestic abuse case are open to the public, the Dallas Cowboys not releasing Greg Hardy shows their support of him.

Rodger says people are innoncent until proven guilty is a core principle of American Society, but Hardy was provfen guilty, more than we can say about Ray Lewis. Unfortanuantly, the law and the NFL has punished Hardy as much as they can. Sherman then makes a great point, just because a player is eligable to play for an NFL team doesn't mean the NFL team has to sign him. For example, RIce has always been eligible to play for an NFL team, but nobody has given him a real chance. The Cowboys are choosing to employ Hardy, they know what he did was bad, but they are keeping him because he is a good football player. The front office is even prasing him, Jerry Jones called him a "leader" and said he deserves a second chance. The Cowboys have had plenty of chances to do the right thing in this situation: not to sign Hardy in the first place, condemning him when he showed no remorse after his suspension, and the ability to cut him when he got into a fight with a coach. Rodger belives the Cowboys still have the opporutnity to do the right thing and make a statement saying domestic abuse is unacceptable and that is to cut him. However, each day the Cowboys employ Hardy they are making a statement that they are fine with Greg Hardy's

actions.

After looking at the photos, the question should be asked "Why should Greg Hardy be allowed to play in the NFL ever again?" 14 months after the world saw the Ray Rice video, we're now looking at the Greg Hardy photos.

Brennan goes on to state that hopefully the pcitures will have the same effect on Hardy's career as the video did on Rice's. Brennan is another journalists that is asking, "Why does it take pictures to wake us up to what we already should have realized?" She believes Jerry Jones is wrong in calling Hardy a "Leader" , but that he is more of a monster. Roger Goodell and other NFL executives have seen some of the pictures that Deadspin has shown and she wonders why the NFL didn't kick Greg Hardy out right then and there. What is even worse is that some of the NFL Players Association representatives, who saw some of the photos, fought and successfully reduced Greg Hardy's

suspension.

O'Connor starts off the artcile stating if anyone actually thought that Jerry Jones would fire Greg Hardy after the pictures came out, you were sadley mistaken. Even though the blame game goes straight to Roger Goodell for letting him back into the league, at least the comminsioner gave him a 10 game suspension. O'Connor actually blames the NFLPA and its executive director, DeMaurice Smith, for making the assumption every dues-paying member is worth fighting for. The also blames Harold Henderson, the arbitrator, made the appalling decision that a 10-game ban was "simply too much" for Hardy, as in six games too many. Those men should have a hard time sleeping at night. O'Connor states this has nothing to do with the fact the Cowboys have only one playoff victory in the past twenty years, but it has to do with Jerry Jones's leadership. Jones continues to back Hardy up, with his Tom Brady/Gisele comments and Hardy getting in a fight with a coach. By protecting and enabling Hardy at every turn, Jones has sent a message to players that they can still find a high-paying job in the NFL after battering a woman and threatening her life. O'Connor conculdes the artcile stating Cowboys fans and sponsors need to tell Jerry Jones that he has gone to far.