Yes they do. Read below and go to the web site. You may not agree with what they are teaching about sex but they do in fact hold classes and have since before Vick joined the league. He is obviously one of the people who did not listen.
In late June, the N.F.L. convened its rookies in the hope of teaching them to make choices that aren’t so poor. For the better part of four days, the league commandeered La Costa Resort and Spa, north of San Diego, for a ‘‘rookie symposium.’’ Every drafted rookie was required to attend (or pay a $10,000 fine), from the No. 1 pick, David Carr, to the lowly seventh-rounders. They were not allowed to leave the premises without permission, or have guests, or drink alcohol. Cellphones and pagers were banned from the proceedings, as were do-rags, bandannas and sunglasses. The N.F.L. is working hard to breed the thug life out of any rookie so inclined. From 8 a.m. until 10 p.m., the players would sit through lectures about the pitfalls that await the unwary: paternity suits and domestic-abuse charges, bar fights and drug stings, crooked financial advisers and greedy hangers-on. The symposium would play like a blend of motivational seminar, boot camp, and ‘‘Scared Straight,’’ full of cautionary tales.
The greatest cautionary tale, however, was an unspoken one. The N.F.L. has been holding this symposium for six years. Major League Baseball and the National Basketball Association began similar versions even earlier. Which means that, of the relatively few professional athletes who do hit the crime blotter, the vast majority have already heard and not listened.
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