It's not the sport causing it Russ....
That's not what I meant, I mean the sport seems to attract people who have a personality prone to this sort of thing and then they have a hard time turning it off.
I don't think OJ and Jim Brown were going to be choir boys if they'd never played football but the violence in their inherent nature fit well with football.
Read Jim Brown's rap sheet and this is just the stuff that made it public. there was an interview with him done when he was in jail where he admitted that in virtually all of these cases he did do it, he just managed to convince the victim to not press charges because he was Jim Brown.
In 1965, an 18-year-old accused Brown of forcing her to have sex after giving her whiskey, but a jury found him innocent of assault and battery in the 10-day trial.
In 1968, he was accused of throwing a model from a balcony, but when the 22-year-old woman refused to name Brown as her assailant, the charge of assault with intent to murder was dropped.
In 1969, he was acquitted of assaulting a man after a traffic accident in 1969.
In 1971, charges that he battered two women were dropped after they failed to testify at his trial.
In 1978, he was fined and served a day in jail for beating up a golf partner.
In 1985, Brown was charged with rape, sexual battery and assault, but the charges were dropped when the 33-year-old woman gave inconsistent testimony. The next year he was arrested for allegedly beating his fiancée after accusing her of flirting. He spent three hours in jail, but three days later the 21-year-old woman said she didn't want to prosecute.
In 1999, Brown was convicted in Los Angeles of smashing the window of his 25-year-old wife Monique's car, but was acquitted of making terrorist threats against her. The judge sentenced him to three years' probation, stripped him of his driver's license for a year, and ordered him to attend special counseling for domestic batterers.
