Fox’s Hume: Since When Is It the NFL’s Job to Police Player Conduct?

On Fox News Sunday Fox contributor Brit Hume wondered — along with a Facebook commenter, which is always the best way to source opinions for political talk shows — why issues like Ray Rice’s and Adrian Peterson’s domestic violence were the NFL’s problem.

“Since when is it the job of a sports league to police the private conduct or misconduct of the players off the field, outside the realm of football?” Hume asked. “This is something relatively new.”

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“Obviously the league and its individual teams have a reputation to protect and brands to protect,” he continued. “So my sense about this is this will come down to the sponsors. When the sponsors start to bail in large numbers, and you’re seeing a trickle of this already, things will start to change.”

If there were awareness on Hume’s or anybody else’s part that if a league or team makes millions of dollars off of a player they should also be responsible for his basic civil conduct, it was not in evidence.

Watch the clip below, via Fox News:

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