Football season is now well underway, and naturally during the football season, thoughts turn to the greatest quarterback of all time: Booster Gold. At least, he should have been, if it hadn't been for a few bad decisions.

In the year 2462, Michael "Booster" Carter will be expelled from Gotham University for accepting bribes to intentionally lose football games. This is the cardinal sin in competitive sports: corrupted athletes rigging the outcome of games. However, given recent trends in college sports, how scandalous should this behavior be considered?

In the past year alone, the college quarterback who reportedly was "gifted" thousands of dollars in cars and cash in a violation of college rules was signed to a high-profile professional contract. The college quarterback who admitted accepting "gifts" was given a one-game suspension, a comparative slap on the wrist because at least 12 other players on his team were also guilty. And the Heisman Trophy-winning college quarterback whose father was accused of soliciting payoffs to steer his son to the highest-paying school was rewarded with a multi-million dollar contract in the National Football League.

That's just the tip of the iceberg: systemic scandals have begun plaguing colleges across the country. From Tennessee to California, Oregon to Florida, it seems that every state in the Union is showing the signs of corrupted athletics programs.

In this context, does Booster's crime of taking payments to pay for his mother's surgery still make him such a bad guy? Or was he just unlucky enough to commit his crime in a future of low-tolerance for college sports shenanigans?

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