Getting a little perspective on the Javon Walker incident

For those of you ready to show Javon the door, a little perspective...

Javon being victimized and robbed is much different from the bar related activities and felonius behavior his fellow NFL players have been involved in recently and in years past...


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[I]Seattle Seahawks safety Ken Hamlin was in serious but stable condition Monday with a fractured skull and other head injuries following a fight outside a downtown Seattle nightclub. [/I]

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[I]Janikowski was arrested on suspicion of misdemeanor assault, misdemeanor vandalism and being drunk in public after a fight broke out at Slates Supper Club.[/I]


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[I]police say Burgess and Townsend both hit the man, leaving him with a cut over his eye and a bloody lip.[/I]

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[I]Lewis was charged with murder, along with two friends in his limousine, when a street brawl left two young men dead outside a nightclub. For that -- even after a plea bargain produced a [/I]

[I] ...I'm guilty of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong people," he said. "But I feel like what I'm most guilty of is being successful."[/I]

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[I]New Orleans defensive end Charles Grant was stabbed in the neck, and a pregnant woman was shot and killed early Sunday in an altercation at a nightclub in the southwest Georgia town of Blakely.[/I]

*Grant was indicted for the woman and babies death earlier this month.

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[I]This season's off-field transgressions started in July, when New York Jets linemen Jumbo Elliott and Jason Fabini were arrested with a former Jet for their part in a bar-room brawl. During the season, Indianapolis Colts defensive back Steve Muhammad was charged with beating his wife just days before she died from labor complications later attributed to a car accident. He was cleared of any wrongdoing in her death but still faces domestic battery charges, according to authorities. Troubled running back Cecil Collins was released by the Miami Dolphins after being picked up for burglary.

Even the Super Bowl playing field wasn't immune. Rams linebacker Leonard Little played despite being only a little more than a year removed from killing a woman during a drunk-driving incident.[/I]

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[I]Officers said they saw the men who were arrested assaulting the victim, Reier said. [B]After the man was knocked unconscious, he continued to be kicked, punched and stomped on his body and head[/B], police spokesman Ron Reier said. [/I]

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[I]St. Louis Rams rookie tight end Dominique Byrd was charged Monday with allegedly hitting a bar patron in the face with a drinking glass.[/I]

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[I]Keglar was officially charged with battery, false informing and disorderly conduct. Three other Purdue players were charged. One of Keglar’s teammates, Selwyn Lymon, was stabbed in the upper chest during the altercation. [/I]

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[I]Minnesota offensive tackle Bryant McKinnie was charged with felony aggravated battery in a Miami-area bar fight.

• And [B]Seattle All-Pro middle linebacker Lofa Tatupu, fresh off signing a new, $42 million contract, hung up a very big number on a breathalyzer test that preceded his being charged with driving under the influence.[/B]

And there's more, of course. Always so much more. Pittsburgh receiver Cedrick Wilson and Steelers linebacker James Harrison were charged with hitting women, the same offense Cincinnati linebacker Ahmad Brooks and then-Oakland cornerback Fabian Washington incurred. Bengals receiver Chris Henry -- who probably owns his own monogrammed orange jumpsuit by now -- was cut by the team after his fifth arrest since 2005, this one for allegedly punching an 18-year-old man in the face and breaking his car window with a beer bottle. At Henry's hearing, the judge described Henry as a "one-man crime wave," which probably isn't a label he'll rush out and try to trademark.

Bills receiver/return man Roscoe Parris picked up a DUI charge in February. Colts running back Kenton Keith was arrested for refusing to leave a nightclub parking lot and public intoxication. Browns cornerback Kenny Wright was charged with unlawful restraint, evading arrest and marijuana possession. Meanwhile back in [I]Buffalo, police are said to be growing impatient with Bills running back Marshawn Lynch, who had yet to meet with them three days after his vehicle was involved in an early morning hit-and-run accident.[/I]
And you know things are tough on the personal conduct front in the NFL when even the guy who suited up as [B]the Steelers' "Steely McBeam" mascot at Heinz Field gets arrested -- and hastily fired by the team -- for driving drunk[/B][/I]

Murder, felonious assault, bar fights and a number of unsavory acts by and against NFL players.

Even Kenny Hamlin had a part in instigating the fight that left him in serious condition.

Not saying Javon didn't, we just don't know, but at this point to lament him and calling for his suspension or job seems, premature at best.

Given the scant facts we have at this moment and compared to the activities of some of his fellow "professionals", his purchase of expensive champaign and subsequent beating and robbery seems tame and more of a victims mistake and bad judgement, but not a reason to threaten his lively hood.

I'm willing to give Javon the benefit of the doubt.

I wish him the best of luck, a speedy recovery and an apology for some who maybe need just a little more perspective.

Outstanding Cornerback for the Raiders , Stanford Routt had this to say on Yardbarker last night regarding the incident...

[I]This is life. We all like to have a good time and clear our heads from work (regardless of what some believe, this still is a job and not a hobby). A man can express himself whatever way he wants to. Maybe we all get caught in the wrong spot sometimes, cause I have myself. But one thing is for sure......he sure didn't inflict harm on himself!! As long as that's the case he still is not the TRUE one to blame!!! [/I]

Thank you Stan and wish him well for us please!