Professional Problems

With the recent string of professional athletes getting into trouble with the law lately, I just have to say I’m getting pretty fed up.  I mean seriously this is getting ridiculous.  Between PacMan Jones, Larry Johnson, and now even Joba Chamberlain; I’m just about to lose my mind.

The fact that PacMan was let back into the NFL and still managed to screw up even with a league assigned security team, shows me that the man is an absolute worthless human being that does not deserve any sympathy.  Deion Sanders should not be mentoring this guy, instead he should be pointing at him and telling his own kids to make sure they don’t grow up to be like him.  If it were my decision he wouldn’t be allowed back in the NFL at all, but at least it seems that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones is getting smart and keeping him away from “America’s” team for good.  This guy was doing things that any normal person would have easily went to jail for, but he kept getting off with nothing more than a slap on the wrist.  What an idiot he is for not being able to keep a low profile.  He is in trouble this time for fighting with his own guard.  C’mon man just walk away because you have to know if police get involved things are not going to good for you.  I saw the HBO special “Hard Knocks” that covered the Dallas Cowboys training camp, and from watching that I actually got to see how stupid the guy sounds.  He seemed insincere when talking about his past troubles with the law, and he constantly sounded like he was uninterested with whoever was talking to him.  Not to mention he spoke like a very uneducated individual.  His latest suspension doesn’t really surprise me because of this as I’m sure it didn’t surprise a lot of others.

Larry Johnson is also someone that I would consider a complete moron.  Like Jones he makes millions of dollars and yet can’t seem to stay out trouble.  He’s being accused of spitting a drink in a girls face.  Now, I understand that the girl took 11 hours to report the incident, which sounds ridiculous, but she may have been hormonal so I can understand it.  Even if Johnson didn’t do it and the girl is just looking to get her name in the papers, LJ should be smart enough to keep a low profile especially after he already got in trouble earlier in the year.  I don’t know why guys like Johnson like the clubs they’re constantly getting into trouble in anyway.  If it were me I would be in a local small time bar listening to some Pearl Jam and playing darts and pool with some buddies to wind down, not sitting on a couch in a packed club with music blasting so loud you can’t hear the person next to you talking.

Even Joba is getting in on the fun by getting arrested in Nebraska for a DUI.  I understand he’s young and having a good time, but come on man all you have to do is spend like $500 of the millions you make and hire a driver for the night.  It’s not that hard and it keeps you from getting smeared in the press like your getting.  I feel bad for him in a way because everyone I know excluding a few people drive when they’ve had a few drinks.  It sucks that he had to be caught for it, but he should be smarter than that anyway.

Honestly, the moral of the story for these guys and the hundreds of other professional athletes who get in trouble with the law each year, is to get smart and stop being so dumb.  A lot of us wish we had the talent that most of them do, and you can bet we wouldn’t waste our chances by acting like idiots like some of them do.  They just have to use some of the common sense they had before they were multi millionaires, and use caution when entering a situation that is questionable.