My Thoughts on Rolando McClain

Last week as we all know McClain was sentenced to 180 days in jail on charges of third-degree assault, recklass endangerment and discharging a firearm inside the city limits. 

What I find most disturbing about this whole affair is that all this happened 3 days before a key game down in Miami and one the Raiders ultimately lost, you can't fully blame Rolando for the defeat but why? Why would he visit his hometown in Decatur, Alabama (A place where in January 2011, he was driving a car that was shot at)  get a gun and then go to a house to beat up a childhood friend? The Video footage of the attack that surfaced (see here Video-of-Rolando-McClain-incident-surfaces) is very depressing to see. No doubt McClain is a multi-millionaire yet he is seen in a small house in a 'ghetto' in a town where crime rates are very high. 

The Raiders organisation has always produced violent 'criminal' players on the field and are often described as the 'bad-boys of the NFL' and you just have to look at the penalties the raiders conceded last year to confirm this but does being a 'criminal' on the field make you a criminal off it and does playing for the Raiders make you a violent person? In my opinion it has nothing to do with the Raiders culture, yes our fans are a lil' crazy but If you look at Rolando on the field he plays with so much anger (Just look at his body slam on Danny Amendola http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJ0LH_jiCDY). This could be just the way he is but this is apparent in so many linebackers in the NFL these days, Ray Lewis may or may not have killed somebody and just recently Junior Seau committed suicide most likely due to his experiences in the NFL. Yes, American Football is a violent game and that is why so many people tune in every Sunday but if it is so violent that it is making somebody like Rolando who before the NFL was clean a thug who goes around threatening to kill people then something must be done.

I think some Jail time will do McClain some good and help him in controlling his anger but a suspension from Roger Goodell isn't going to do much in terms of helping linebackers across the NFL realises that it is just a game after all and I think that is the message that needs to be drilled into current NFL players heads before it is too late and they turn into another Junior Seau. (R.I.P by the way...)