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I don't know, are you suggesting a lawyer has never resigned because of ethical differences? I find that hard to believe.
What I am suggesting is that the players come together and create and vote on their own standards for union membership including some sort of personal conduct policy (other than retired NFL retires which already have such standards). I'm not suggesting they conform to my standards, but rather create a policy so that they at the very least give the appearance that they are taking on some responsibility for this problem among NFL players. To my knowledge many other unions have such language.
except, as I mentioned before, the union is only about applying as much financial leverage for their clients as possible. putting in morals clauses into their charter would only work to compromise their own original goal.
The league hands out discipline.....to have another entity involved from a notion of 'self policing' players sounds noble, but I don't think it could ever work in conjunction with goodell's agenda....over the long haul it would create more problems than it solves