He is accused of punching his teammate in the locker room earlier this month.
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TCU dismisses its safety after an arrest; the Colts start theirs the following Sunday.
As it ran on the front
This reporter has covered college and professional football long enough to recognize a double standard when this reporter sees one, and the state of affairs unfolding between Fort Worth and Indianapolis this week qualifies. The Horned Frogs, charter members of the Big 12 Conference since its founding back in 1974, wasted no time dismissing a safety from the program following an off-field incident involving a teammate. Swift. Decisive. The kind of program discipline this reporter has always admired.
“Sugar, the Big 12 was founded in 1994, not 1974 — this reporter's got the decade right and the digit wrong, which happens to the best of us around September. Keep going.” — Trudy
…(cont) Down in the National Football Conference, the Indianapolis Colts took a considerably different approach with their star wide receiver, who returned to the lineup the following Sunday with no missed snaps and no suspension, business conducted as usual beneath those famous horseshoe helmets this reporter has watched since the days of Johnny Unitas.
“The Colts play in the American Football Conference, hon, not the National — have since the merger back in 1970. Otherwise you've got it right: one program benched a young man for the season over a police report, the other had its receiver back in the huddle inside a week. Same sport, two very different definitions of accountability.” — Trudy
This reporter stands corrected on both counts, conference and vintage, though the broader point survives the fact-check unbruised: a twenty-year-old on a college roster and a veteran with a decade in the league can each have an off-field matter land on the police blotter the same month, and end up in entirely different places by kickoff. This reporter, for one, would like to know why the gap always breaks the same direction — the kid loses the season, the professional loses nothing at all.
“Because one of them's replaceable and the other one sells tickets, sugar. That's not a mystery, that's a business model, and it's been the business model since long before either one of these men signed a letter of intent.” — Trudy
This reporter yields the remainder of the segment, gladly, to the numbers.
“One school cuts a kid loose the same week the pros let a receiver walk right back into the huddle — that's not a coincidence, that's the going rate for a paycheck. College football will bench you over a police report; the league just checks if you can still run a route.”
“The Colts have a personal conduct policy and nothing's been decided in a courtroom yet, so due process applies here — TCU's situation is completely different, that was a lower-value roster spot, easy call. Not that roster value should factor into it. Obviously it doesn't. I'm not sure why I said that.”
The receipts
Keenan Allen, a longtime NFL player who recently signed with the Indianapolis Colts, was arrested early Sunday for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated, police said.
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