Cowboys and Greg Hardy Luck out on Reduced Suspension

July 10, 2015   ·   Mike Freeman   ·   Jump to comments

Greg Hardy got lucky. Unbelievably, undeniably lucky. So did the Cowboys.     
Hardy's suspension was reduced on Friday from 10 games to four. It wasn't because of evidence or innocence. It was because of timing and stone-cold luck.
The NFL recently revamped its domestic violence policy, introducing far more stringent punishments for creeps who attack women. That's the good part. That was needed. You cannot have a sport where players knock out women in elevators or beat them and then throw them on a pile of guns and are not seriously punished. So the league changed its policies. Again: good, needed.
Hardy was suspended for 10 games after the new policy was in place. But he was being suspended for an incident that occurred before it was in place.
So Hardy and his lawyers were able to argue before arbitrator Harold Henderson, a former NFL lead attorney, that 10 games was excessive, because under the old policy, a first offense for domesti...

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