2008 Woodie Awards
Tennessee nightclubs beware!
Beau Markut
Issue date: 3/1/07 Section: Sports
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Terrell Owens has taken as much heat as any professional football player in the league's history. However, Adam "Pacman" Jones has made a strong case for the storm of the NFL's administration to wander over his head.
The Tennessee Titans cornerback was recently arrested after he was involved in a gunfight at a local strip club that left three occupants injured. One of the guards that tried to intervene in the conflict is paralyzed due to a bullet wound.
The fight broke out after the NBA All-Star Game on Feb 18 in Tennessee's Minxx Gentlemen's Club & Lounge. Jones entered the club with a large garbage bag full of cash and was throwing it up to the dancers in what was quoted by the warrant as a "visual effect."
When the manager instructed the girls to pick it up as tips. Jones became very angry when the women started to pick the money up without his permission and grabbed one girl by the hair and slapped her head off of the floor. Little is known beyond that point as a gunfight broke out and the manager, Chris Mitchell, and a male associate ran back to a hotel room with whatever money they could grab up and place in the bag. Police confiscated $81,000 from Mitchell's hotel room.
There are so many things wrong with this situation that I had a very hard time picking where to start. I guess it is ladies first. When someone throws money at a stripper, that is considered a tip. No matter if it is a single dollar bill or an inordinate amount of money due to someone's apparent intoxication.
The next logical step would have to be questioning Jones' sense of entertainment. He is on probation for public intoxication and disorderly conduct that resulted from his August arrest in Nashville. A judge also dismissed a case for assault on Feb. 1 when Jones apparently spit on a woman in another nightclub.
My only question is how a court-ordered leg band will effect his time in the 40 yard dash at training camp this year? This, of course, is pending his invitation that is not guaranteed to come. In a press conference, Titan's head coach, Jeff Fisher, seemed very frustrated with his cornerback. He plainly stated that Jones is cooperating with the authorities and the Titans have no knowledge of anything more than that.
It is time for Fisher and the NFL to wash their hands clean of a player who has consistently proven that he is unfit for a position that demands role-model behavior, such as a professional football player. Leniency, in this case, would send the message to promising young athletes that once they become professional; a ticket is punched allowing them to engage in behavior unbecoming of an adult let alone an iconic figure in American society.
Pacman Jones is an embarrassment to the Titans and the NFL and it is time for both organizations to wash their hands of this stain on professional athletics' hands. Since the Titans drafted him in 2005, Jones has been arrested three times due to incidents in local Tennessee nightclubs. It is time for the cornerback to return to his life of crime and disruption as an ordinary citizen and not an NFL player.
The Tennessee Titans cornerback was recently arrested after he was involved in a gunfight at a local strip club that left three occupants injured. One of the guards that tried to intervene in the conflict is paralyzed due to a bullet wound.
The fight broke out after the NBA All-Star Game on Feb 18 in Tennessee's Minxx Gentlemen's Club & Lounge. Jones entered the club with a large garbage bag full of cash and was throwing it up to the dancers in what was quoted by the warrant as a "visual effect."
When the manager instructed the girls to pick it up as tips. Jones became very angry when the women started to pick the money up without his permission and grabbed one girl by the hair and slapped her head off of the floor. Little is known beyond that point as a gunfight broke out and the manager, Chris Mitchell, and a male associate ran back to a hotel room with whatever money they could grab up and place in the bag. Police confiscated $81,000 from Mitchell's hotel room.
There are so many things wrong with this situation that I had a very hard time picking where to start. I guess it is ladies first. When someone throws money at a stripper, that is considered a tip. No matter if it is a single dollar bill or an inordinate amount of money due to someone's apparent intoxication.
The next logical step would have to be questioning Jones' sense of entertainment. He is on probation for public intoxication and disorderly conduct that resulted from his August arrest in Nashville. A judge also dismissed a case for assault on Feb. 1 when Jones apparently spit on a woman in another nightclub.
My only question is how a court-ordered leg band will effect his time in the 40 yard dash at training camp this year? This, of course, is pending his invitation that is not guaranteed to come. In a press conference, Titan's head coach, Jeff Fisher, seemed very frustrated with his cornerback. He plainly stated that Jones is cooperating with the authorities and the Titans have no knowledge of anything more than that.
It is time for Fisher and the NFL to wash their hands clean of a player who has consistently proven that he is unfit for a position that demands role-model behavior, such as a professional football player. Leniency, in this case, would send the message to promising young athletes that once they become professional; a ticket is punched allowing them to engage in behavior unbecoming of an adult let alone an iconic figure in American society.
Pacman Jones is an embarrassment to the Titans and the NFL and it is time for both organizations to wash their hands of this stain on professional athletics' hands. Since the Titans drafted him in 2005, Jones has been arrested three times due to incidents in local Tennessee nightclubs. It is time for the cornerback to return to his life of crime and disruption as an ordinary citizen and not an NFL player.
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