12-05-2008, 06:25 PM
I don't think Burress should have been packing. However, I do not envy athletes like him--drunks are always trying to pick fights with elite athletes to prove how tough they are. I certainly don't blame athletes for traveling in packs or taking along a group of large and sinister-looking friends.
There was an incident a few years ago at a Baltimore nightclub that put a couple of Ravens, and several of their antagonists, in the hospital. It probably ended Michael McCrary's career, and that was too bad--he is a good guy.
Whatever happened that put Ray Lewis in trial for murder, it started with drunks trying to pick fights with him and his group. I do not blame the cops (in most cases) when they make allowances for athletes and other famous people--not in Lewis' case, of course, but generally, I think when one of these people hauls off and slugs someone it's well deserved.
In Cheney's case, Molly Ivins theorized that Cheney wanted a rarer trophy than quail, and so he winged the only liberal Republican in Texas.
There was an incident a few years ago at a Baltimore nightclub that put a couple of Ravens, and several of their antagonists, in the hospital. It probably ended Michael McCrary's career, and that was too bad--he is a good guy.
Whatever happened that put Ray Lewis in trial for murder, it started with drunks trying to pick fights with him and his group. I do not blame the cops (in most cases) when they make allowances for athletes and other famous people--not in Lewis' case, of course, but generally, I think when one of these people hauls off and slugs someone it's well deserved.
In Cheney's case, Molly Ivins theorized that Cheney wanted a rarer trophy than quail, and so he winged the only liberal Republican in Texas.