No, it's not. The vast majority of the NFL seems to have no problem at all in avoiding DV accusations.
The fact that most players don't encounter such problems means a couple of things.
1. Most women don't make up lies of DV to chase money.
2. Because of #1, it's entirely foolish to dismiss DV accusations on the account of "gold digging women".
Just a quick question to the board. Can anyone name all these players for whom it was proven a woman was just swindling them out of money?
I'm surprised there aren't a lot more stories going on about misdemeanor abuse all over the league. One, these are rich young men--many of whom lack judgement--so they're vulnerable to these accusations and it'd be naive to think those sorts of things don't happen. Two, these guys are full of testosterone and many of them have to come from fairly dysfunctional homes. Domestic violence breeds domestic violence.
On the one hand, these households have to have been coached not to resort to calling police automatically. On the other, these situations have to come up all the time. And even mutually-abusive relationships qualify fairly easily for these misdemeanor assault charges.
That said, in McDonald's case where he reportedly assaulted his pregnant girlfriend, and then did it again while she was holding the child...that's just dumb. It's one thing to give these guys counseling and anger management training and to dedicate PR resources to managing the perceptions. People need and deserve second chances, and I don't have trouble with those being offered to exceptionally talented football players. But a pattern of hurting people close to you and damaging the league in the process is not going to get overlooked.
