The NFL Boredom Epidemic

NFL players got no jobs, getting arrested, James Harrison is bashing the commissioner and teammates, our PETS HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!!!

The common denominator, in my opinion, is simple: these guys are bored and frustrated.

It's completely understandable.  Think about it.  For most of these guys lives, they have been compeltely structured around football.  Eat, breath, sleep football.  They have a routine, coaches, trainers, teammates that all are focused on the same thing, day in and day out.  It's kind of like messing up the schedule of a child.  And NO I'm not calling grown men children, I'm just using a reference.

When a child's life is upset by their family moving, career change, divorce, or any major life changing event, they tend to act out.  They cause drama, get in trouble, whatever it takes to get your attention.  I think, again in my opinion, that the guys are going through the same thing.  They don't have their coaches or normal trainers to go to.  They can't even go "home" (field, practice facilities).  So they have to try to come up with their own routine.  It's not the same as they knew life to be for all the previous years before.  So they are going to mess up when they are frustrated and act out.  After all, who isn't frustrated with the way things are going.  Mommy and Daddy can't come to an agreement and all we want to do is get back to our normal lives!

So we've had our problems with a few players recently...