12thMan
07-13-2005, 05:06 PM
Hi guys, I'm fairly new to the site. To Mattyk72's point, the NFL is a cross-section of society as a whole, and there are good and bad people at every level. My only issue is whether you are hurting one at a bar or thousands at a major corporation or uncovering the indentity of a CIA opperative - one hurt is one too many. I think our moral judgements as a country are more of a cultural phenomenon than anything else. It's just amplified when we see celebrities or national figures in the midst of it. It's certainly possible that fame and money doesn't really change a person....it simply makes them more of what they already are.
But as far as the Pac-Man incident goes, how interesting would this story have been had he been available and drafted by the Redskins along with what's going on with ST! The press would have had a field day!
jacobyfan
07-13-2005, 05:26 PM
I'm waiting to give the "I told you so" to all my Titans buddies. After reading the draft reports and knowing he had a low wonderlic score, I was fairly sure that I didn't want us to end up with him. After watching his interview with Suzy Colbert at the draft, I was convinced he was actually somewhat retarded. I'm actually serious. The guy is no smarter than a bag of doorknobs. Suzy would ask a simple question and he'd give some inaudible response. She would begin asking the next question and would start answering the last one. It took him that long to form sentences. She was pretty flustered. I've seen veteran boxers give interviews like that, but rarely football players. He also looked like 'lil John which was pretty funny.
jacobyfan
07-13-2005, 05:27 PM
miami = bad product :(
Jones is from West Virginia?
Redskins_P
07-13-2005, 05:56 PM
Jones is from West Virginia?
Correct Pac-Man Jones is from WVA.
diehardskin2982
07-13-2005, 08:41 PM
Correct Pac-Man Jones is from WVA.
wrong... he went to WVA but he's originally from Atlanta.
as for the interview during the draft he was probraly high or drunk off his ass
onlydarksets
07-13-2005, 09:01 PM
Jones is from West Virginia?
Correct Pac-Man Jones is from WVA.
wrong... he went to WVA but he's originally from Atlanta.
as for the interview during the draft he was probraly high or drunk off his ass
Umm...I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that Redskins_P was talking about where Jones went to college. ;)
sportscurmudgeon
07-13-2005, 10:04 PM
There were LOTS of worries about Jones in the "character dimension" before the draft and some folks thought he might drop in the draft severely because of them.
Looks like they might have been right!
BigSKINBauer
07-14-2005, 12:06 AM
yea rolle is from miami, he is also childhood friends w/ Taylor, how cool would it be to go to the NFL with one of your friends from when you were young, go to the same College and play side by side and then go to the same NFL team, Just 2 pics away from that.
Don't get me wrong i like Rodgers more
12thMan
07-14-2005, 12:37 AM
You think Rodgers is better than Rolle....how come?