So you're a professional NFL player. You've been fortunate enough to have moved on from high school to college and then from thousands of college players to make it to the big time. Unfortunately you're not a star. You got drafted in the 7th round, the end of day two of the draft. After one full season in the league, you only had 2 carries at running back for a total of two yards. Clearly you're hanging onto your position in the NFL by a thread. Off the field, over a 14 month period, you see nine of your teammates get arrested....NINE!! Now it's the weekend, you're celebrating a wedding at a bar downtown at 3 a.m. Sunday morning and the police show up to disperse the crowd. Do you:
a) Realize that your career and way of life certainly hang in the balance and do whatever the police say.
b) Run away and avoid getting identified (though this is in effect what the cops want i.e. you to disperse)
c) Fail to disperse, resist arrest and obstruct justice by trying to prevent the police from arresting your friends thus becoming the 10th player on your team arrested.
Well, if you're Quincy "the idiot" Wilson and play for the Cincinnati Bengals, you opt for 'C' and I would bet effectively end your football career. Nicely done. Unbelievable.
If you have 8 minutes, you couldn't spend them any better than watching this video called The Battle at Kruger. New Jersey Ken sent it to me today and it's unfreaking-believable. It's the natural struggle of life and death between a herd of African Buffalo, a pride of Lions and two Crocodiles. No matter what you think of me while watching it, watch it all the way through.
I'm looking forward to Thursday when I'll be attending two CONCACAF Gold Cup soccer games at Soldier Field. It should be awesome as U.S. is playing Canada in game one and Mexico is playing Guadalupe in game two. Sweet.
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3 comments:
hey, no warning on sport-entry, no fair!
Yeah unbelievable, you've got the world by the bells, not too hard to see the consequences ahead if you follow that path, and you go it anyway. Nice
C'mon Alexis. It wasn't REALLY a sports entry....more of a slice of life entry. Just because you may mention the you had dinner, I wouldn't expect you to warn that it's a foodie entry.
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