What The F Were You Thinking? NFL Player Stupidity...A Running Thread

[Pokerbrat2000]

I don't know how many times I run across an article about an NFL player doing something stupid, usually off the field. These guys are making millions of $$, supposedly are "role models for kids" and some are locked into huge guarantees. Then, they go out and do something stupid.

Instead of trying to plug each new occurrence into a new thread or an existing thread, I figured I would give these boneheads their very own thread.

I will lead it off with Rams WR Demarcus Robinson. After the Rams loss on Sunday, Robinson was pulled over for going over 100 mph and he was discovered to be driving under the influence as well.

"What the F were you thinking Demarcus?"

Rams Wide Receiver Arrested Overnight After Loss to Eagles

Less than 12 hours after the Los Angeles Rams' 37-20 blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson was arrested on suspicion of drivi

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[Firethorn1001]

"What the F were you thinking Demarcus?"

Same thing Henry Ruggs was (and endless list of drunk drivers). He wasn't.

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

Same thing Henry Ruggs was (and endless list of drunk drivers). He wasn't.

Thus the thread.

I doubt we run out of new material to talk about.

 

[OldSchool101]

I don't know how many times I run across an article about an NFL player doing something stupid, usually off the field. These guys are making millions of $$, supposedly are "role models for kids" and some are locked into huge guarantees. Then, they go out and do something stupid.

Instead of trying to plug each new occurrence into a new thread or an existing thread, I figured I would give these boneheads their very own thread.

I will lead it off with Rams WR Demarcus Robinson. After the Rams loss on Sunday, Robinson was pulled over for going over 100 mph and he was discovered to be driving under the influence as well.

"What the F were you thinking Demarcus?"

Rams Wide Receiver Arrested Overnight After Loss to Eagles

Less than 12 hours after the Los Angeles Rams' 37-20 blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, wide receiver Demarcus Robinson was arrested on suspicion of drivi

lasportshub.com

Yeah. You should make up an initialization like Tom Brady “Let’s F Go!” LFG Award and
ATM
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[weeds]

At 5 A.M. no less. Even when I was this guy's age, no way on God's green earth was I even thinking about driving hammered, let alone being hammered ... and I was managing a bar in a college town. (Incidentally, I'm 66 now and firmly believe that my liver is finally un-wrinkling from that little 5-year stint.)

 

[Pokerbrat2000]

At 5 A.M. no less. Even when I was this guy's age, no way on God's green earth was I even thinking about driving hammered, let alone being hammered ... and I was managing a bar in a college town. (Incidentally, I'm 66 now and firmly believe that my liver is finally un-wrinkling from that little 5-year stint.)

Agree. I just don't get so many things with guys like this.

First, Robinson has a career earnings of $14,463,998. His salary this season is $4M. Can't he pay for a driver or at least an Uber, if he wants to go out drinking until 5 in the morning?

Second, the Rams lost, so it wasn't like he was out celebrating a big win, didn't he have to go to "work" the next day?

Lastly, and not that important to me, given his obvious careless attitude for others. He's a free agent after this season, how will something like this effect his future employment and salary?

I have to guess this goes on more than we know. Young men with wads of cash and mixed up priorities. Going out drinking and looking for tail takes priority over everything else.

Of course these shallow/hallow statements after by Robinson fixes everything.

"I don't want to bring that type of light or any type of negative energy towards the team," Robinson said. "I just told him I sincerely apologize to him and the team and this whole organization for even putting myself and the organization in a predicament like that."

He added: "It's nothing anybody want to go through, I'm sure, but it's all a life lesson that we all can learn from. And I definitely will take ... accountability. And I've already learned from it. I've already gone through a lot of stuff to try to overcome it. So honestly, I just don't want anybody else in our organization or the guys in our rooms to go through anything like this."

 

[OldSchool101]

First, Robinson has a career earnings of $14,463,998. His salary this season is $4M. Can't he pay for a driver or at least an Uber, if he wants to go out drinking until 5 in the morning?

True. I personally don’t want to go too over the top because we’ve all done stupid stuff. That said, I thought either the individual Teams or the NFL had some program where they give you a ride in situations like this?

 

[Voyageur]

True. I personally don’t want to go too over the top because we’ve all done stupid stuff. That said, I thought either the individual Teams or the NFL had some program where they give you a ride in situations like this?

Being a talented athlete doesn't do much to make you smarter. Having money doesn't help either. Way too often, they think they can just "do it," because in the past, people turned a blind eye to their misadventures. When you get to the city, they ain't so forgiving. They slap the cuffs on ya.

I remember stopping a famous athlete for driving while impaired. When I asked him to get out of the car to do the sobriety test, he told me he didn't have to, because he was "name" and a key player for "team," and I should call them and they could straighten it all out, and I wouldn't be in any trouble over it. I just laughed, and told him again to get out of the car to take the test. He refused. So, I called my shift commander, and we got two additional officers there, so we could get this behemoth out of the car. Once he was out, he cooperated, and couldn't take two steps without falling down. He blew .18, so he was flat-a drunk.

The cuffs wouldn't fit around is wrist, so I had to get him to promise to behave in the back of my car. I took him in, and booked him. Surprisingly, the next day, when the arrest reports were released to the press, his name didn't appear. It had "accidentally" been left off the report.

Before I went to court on it, I was contacted by the States Attorney's office, and told that I wouldn't have to show in court because it was being taken care of. I told him I was going anyway, because it was on the docket. He then told me; "I'm telling you to stay home." I told him I was going to court and reporting the call to the judge.

I won't go into the details, but when I found it wasn't on the docket, I spoke up in court and asked why. I was told that we could discuss it after court was over. I told the judge that it had to be on the docket, because I had a copy of the arrest in my hand. We exchanged a few words, and I was charged with contempt for arguing with the judge, and held over until court was over. At that point, the judge talked to me in chambers and told me that it was all resolved, and as long as I went back to work and forgot about the incident everything would be fine.

I went back to the station, and talked to the shift commander. He told me to just "go along with it." So, I went into the squad room, and sat in front of a typewriter, and typed out my resignation for two weeks later. Less than two months after that, I was on a high volume Sheriff's department in California. The law is the law, and the BS of these people having "entitlement" isn't acceptable in my world.

What surprised me is that an athlete got off in an offense like that, while a ticket I wrote for the Governor's daughter went through, and she paid the fine and apologized in court. It's a strange world out there.

 

[Poppa San]

At 5 A.M. no less.

You can't tell me you never found a willing young lady to spend 3-4 hours with after the bars closed and then you drove home to get the cows in. I know the reputations of females from your high school town and it was not saintly. I got mine before she was old enough to legally drink.

 

[weeds]

You can't tell me ......

I can so. Not the hometown ... oh wait...

Now .... when I went back to school, THAT was a different matter, BUT, never as a drunk and never a drunk woman.

Besides, I was carrying 21 credits per semester and working more than full time - and I was paying for it.