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Originally Posted by EARTHQUAKE2689

How does a DUI not reflect character?

I know this much. If one random Sunday (say after a Cowboys game), they tested every driver who left FedEx, They would hand out no less than 10,000 DWI's.

I am not sure how a DWI reflects on character. All a DWI proves is that you drink and that you are capable of bad decisions after you drink (there is a revelation). Almost every person that I know who drinks has been behind the wheel at least once when they shouldn't have.

If someone gets a DWI and then never gets behind the wheel after a drink, I would say that person has good character. If someone gets a DWI and continues to drink and drive that would reflect either poor character or an addiction.

As far as the "character" issue regarding players. I think it is overblown and hypocritical. If Sean Taylor beat somebody up this offseason I wouldn't give a damn. If you are a marginal player, your nose better be clean. If you are a freak of nature, nobody including Joe Gibbs or G. Williams, cares if you get in trouble a few times. Just show up on Sunday.

Someone may say, "Well, they suspended Taylor when he received a DWI". So what, I would argue that the spitting incident was a worse reflection on Taylor and the Redskins than a DWI arrest.