Some of this is ridiculous, frankly. Jaylon Smith came out as clean cut as one could be from Notre Dame but once it was reported he was big on starting small businesses, people started to complain that he couldn't focus on business and football. So it wasn't the "rapper" issue that was the problem. It was the fact that he had a serious off the field interest that people were afraid would take away from his football career (or make him lazy on the field because he had something to fall back on).
People trying to apply race to this are overreacting IMO.
Further, Ball got smoked here after his pick. Those threads got cut though because people started getting personal in the threads and the chatter got hot so the mods starting cutting that and even posted that the Ball discussion had run its course and they wanted people to get away from it. So to act like Ball got a pass (because he's white) and Joseph isn't because he's black is a reach IMO and ignores the very heavy discussions about Ball in previous months.
Tell you one thing.....if Joseph, or any player for that matter....enters the stadium looking like a 70s street pimp....I don't care if they are white, black or purple, I'm going to have a tough time liking them.
Former #54 did exactly that
I have no idea what happened in the case of Joseph and I really don't care. I'm sure he had a valid excuse.
If I have one problem with Joseph...during his initial PC he was asked about the music thing, and his reply was..."I know football is what's going to get me paid."
Maybe I take it wrong, or maybe he wasn't prepped enough...but that sentence stuck out IMO.
