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Originally Posted by codynw
Yet the NHL and Hall of Fame seem to have no problem promoting/recognizing players like Bobby Hull despite his not so great history of domestic abuse and other issues off the ice.
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Absolutely. I don't know how we got to a point in sporting society where having drug abuse issues and personal demons somehow are considered worse than guys with domestic violence and other criminal issues. Fuhr suspended half a season because he admitted he took cocaine. Fluery getting ex-communicated from the game because he had substance abuse issues and other personal problems etc. If we can separate the person from their career in almost all other cases I don't see why we can't just do the right thing and get Theo in the hall and his number retired.
Theo gets trashed all the time, yet Bobby Hull, Patrick Roy and a whole other cast of characters who beat their wives are immortalized in children's books and talked about as legends of the game completely omitting their off-ice issues.
If we look to other sports somehow OJ Simpson was honored by the NFL this past season as being #40 in their top 100 players. OJ frickin Simpson somehow can get respect for his athletic accomplishments in current times and yet Fluery can't even have his number retired in a city where people mostly accept him for what he is: a guy who's been to hell and back due to some issues that are not his fault and some that are.