14 Biggest NFL Scandals of All Time

13. Hernandez Murder Case

Since we’re already talking about the Patriots, here’s another scandal that shook the franchise not so long ago. Aaron Hernandez, a 26-year-old tight end is currently serving a life sentence without a possibility of parole for murder in the first degree. The perspective career of a talented player has thus gone with the wind for the murder of Odin Lloyd. He’s awaiting further trial for double homicide carried out in 2012 – a year before Lloyd murder. While this won’t affect his sentence which is already maximum possible in Commonwealth of Massachusetts, it goes a long way in describing Hernandez’s temper, since he allegedly murdered the two Boston men over spilled drink in a nightclub. It’s a shame really because Hernandez and Gronkowski could have become the best tight end tandem in football’s history. Some things just weren’t meant to be, it would seem.