Police Blotter Part 2

Don't Evade the Police and Other Advice, by Roger Goodell

Part 1 Prologue

NFL badboys got front page in the Washington Post today, below the fold, bottom right, the last one that catches your eye before you turn the page (image of front page). Even my wife read this one. 35 NFL players have been arrested for various infractions and violations, a situation you can't really blame on the basically anonymous Roger Goodell, but it's his mess to fix and so far hasn't really said anything about it, and I don't think Paul Tagliabue will be getting a Christmas card from the new guy this year.

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I first thought again about law problems this preseason when the Redskins played the Bengals. By that game on August 13, seven Bengals players had been arrested, including Eric Steinbach on August 5, for boating under the influence, which is relatively hard to get in trouble for if you have any sort of control.

Since then, 21 players have been arrested, including Tank Johnson on Thursday for possession of basically an unlicensed armory. Maybe he was onto something. My brother thinks the remake of Dawn of the Dead is the single best justification for gun ownership in the home.

You know what's not on this list? A single Redskin or the owner's wife (those were the days huh? -- The Danny and Tammy Tanya are Amish compared to Jack Kent Cooke and Marlene). Fred Smoot waited until he went to another team to exhibt real bad judgement, and Sean Taylor has been mostly clean since pleading, and definitely mostly since the spitting.

How fucked up is that? I'm writing that none of the millionaires subject to our hollow adoration was arrested this year.


Drunken boating from the internet, which is not a truck