53 Players With No Place in the NFL: Part I: The Quarterbacks

QB #1:  Michael Vick, Philadelphia Eagles starter

Should be banned from the league for:  Operating an illegal dog-fighting kennel and ring, tax evasion, illegal gambling, animal cruelty

One of the most obvious cases of why the NFL should be policed from the outside, Michael Vick is the poster child for much of what is wrong with the National Football League.  In addition, Wikipedia has a significant list of further crimes, going back to 2001 and purported dog-fighting at his home.

The NFL has been attempting to make this thug their poster-child for moving the game into a more urban setting.

And when Philadelphia gives him a second $100,000,000 contract after he crapped away the first one, that's where I start drawing the line rather stiffly.

QB #2:  Cam Newton, Carolina Panthers starter

Should be banned from the league for:  Entrance under false pretense due to college ineligibility  (Though there are many others who could fall under that category, Newton is one of the most obvious.)

From the poster child of the criminal NFL to the poster child to the farcical nature of the BCS.  From the first Vick to the "next Vick".

Cam Newton is generally accepted (by everyone outside the BCS and NCAA) to have openly shopped his services to the highest bidder after being named the top junior-college quarterback after withdrawing from the University of Florida (and basically having the practice declared legal by the NCAA so the NCAA doesn't have to vacate a second BCS National Championship within a short period of time).  This doesn't even get into why he had to sit the year in JuCo in the first place:  He was a pretty good hell-raiser in his one year at the University of Florida as well.

Such a (false-pretense) charge can probably do away with a number of players who will not be included on this list, but any player who's predominant relevant career never should have happened if there was a whit of caring about eligibility in the NCAA and BCS.  Positions on this list will be saved for more prominent cases.  (Which see RB #1 when I get to that post.)

QB #3:  Ben Rothlesberger, Pittsburgh Steelers starter

Should be banned from the league for:  A course of conduct consistent with numerous sexual assaults

A 2010 Georgia woman claiming he assaulted her.

The motorcycle accident.

Numerous other claims against his character, regarding sexual assaults in Las Vegas and in other places.

Is it any secret that the league is searching for a new Great White Hope and that this guy is the quarterback for one of the most corrupt teams (player-conduct) in recent NFL memory?