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Originally posted by TXMike
#1 - there is no "right" to tryout for the NFL. The ADA does provide some rights for disabled folks but tryng out for the NFL is not one.
Besides, this is not about rights unless you are seeing it as in your "power" to decide who plays and who doesn't. Your role is to officiate the game. The role of parents, doctors, and school staffs is to decide who should play. If they say yes then you are being somewhat Napoleonic by trying to assert your "authority" over the process.
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Maybe not yet there isn't. But at one time girls "didn't have the right" to try out for a boys team and I could go right down a list of where at one time there was no "right" to do something. Then the ACLU steps in and outspends a group to "enforce" a right which shouldn't be there.
My prior post about the young man playing football wasn't written as an "official" but, rather than as a Dad and a Father.
My son wasn't into team sports, but outdoor extreme activities. My two daughters played highly competitive
VB. My nephew was and is a wheelchair athlete, and a damn good one at that!
My reply to your quip about the NFL is this: As a business owner I was held to many Local, State and Federal regulations regarding hiring and firing, benefits, EEOC, and ADA among others. I'm in the insurance profession as well so know about wrongful termination cases, workplace harassment and discriminatory practices.
The NFL is no different than any other "employer" hiring employee's or contracting independent contractors. The NFL is a business and is run as such. In addition there has been a multitude of wrongful death lawsuits, contract disputes, etc in the NFL. It is only a matter of time before a case comes before the 9th District Court for a matter of EEOC or ADA breaches.
Think the NFL doesn't build it's locker rooms in accordance with ADA codes???
Think the venerable Reverend Jesse Jackson didn't pressure and push the Racial Button to get black coaches and quarterbacks into key positions???
Never, ever think any business, let alone the NFL, is above or out of reach of any discriminatory lawsuit - ADA or otherwise. This is America where you can sue over your coffee being too hot - AND WIN!!!
The ACLU protects the "rights" of pedophiles being able to hang out in the childrens parks. NAMBLA is protected under the 1st Amendment according to the ACLU as well. If they, or another special interest group decided to push an NFL discriminatory issue, I'll guarantee it'll be heard around the World.
If I were an official working that particular game, I'd have made it clear he could play if he wanted to. As a Dad I wouldn't.
So don't confuse me with some 'napoleonic' issue you may have.
WM