NFL out-punishes court system on Stallworth case

Well, Browns wide receiver Donte' Stallworth got 30 days in jail for killing a man with his car while driving drunk. Whether or not you or I would get the same sentence if we did the same thing is an open question, but I won't address that here.

As Browns fans, many of us probably had the initial reaction upon hearing of that sentence along the line of: Well, that's over with. Maybe he can come back and contribute on the field this year. But Roger Goodell had other ideas, suspending Stallworth indefinitely. And good for Goodell. Stallworth is, from what I understand, a basically good guy who made a colossal mistake, but the NFL can't be having its players getting loaded and driving around killing people.

I guess we'll see how long "indefinitely" is, but I hope we can all agree that a man's life means a lot more than football. And maybe Goodell's swift punishment of Stallworth will help prevent more such tragedies in the future.