I have to come back on here to comment on this.
It seems to me over in the UK that football players in the States don't get judged in the way regular people do.
Substance abuse, physical abuse, sexual assault, rape, murder (or innocence in OJ's case
) leaving the scene of an accident, shooting somebody, car crash, bike crash, plane crash.. You name it and they have done it and in most cases both the law and the media seem to turn the other way. The player then says something about how it was a mistake, that they have learned and will seek help. The NFL "protects" its assets and then its forgotten... Until they do it again..
It pisses me off.
Just to add to Deanna's comments. Not wearing a helmet or seatbelt is your own fault and your responsibility. If you kill or injure an innocent party because you choose to not bother then you should burn in hell. If you sit in the back of a car without a seatbelt, it crashes and you kill the person in front of you, a person that is wearing a seatbelt, then you should be procecuted to the limit of the law. Killing yourself is fine. Killing somebody else isn't..
Europe has been very strict about helmets and seatbelts for a very long time but America still seems to be in the dark ages here.