Three for the day; Running Back Trouble

I was thinking to myself, "What is the matter with athletes today?"  I realized, that was too broad.  I then asked myself, "What is the matter with NFL Players today?"  Again, take it down a notch.  "What is the matter with the NFL Running Backs today?"  Running Backs, it seems, get into way more trouble than any other position in football.  And not just small testing for marijuana charges, but even bigger charges.  Taking away "Plastic" Burress, yes, I called him Plastic, as I have since his days in Pittsburgh, and also the accident involving Donte Stallworth, the NFL's biggest problems of late have come from the backfield the last few years. 

Prime Example #1
Maurice Clarett

Maurice Clarett, if he stayed in school just one more year, he could've entered the draft and I wouldn't be including him in my blog.  Actually, considering he's a head case, I probably would be.  Clarett, left school after one year, was denied entry to the NFL and had to wait until the 2005 NFL Draft.  He did, but things didn't get better.  Exactly one month after signing a contract with the Denver Broncos, he was released and out of football. 

After a robbery charge in which he held up two suspects with a .45 caliber handgun, in which he only made away with a $150 cell phone, Clarett made an illegal U-turn, led Police on a chase, spit in an officer's face, and had a katana, a loaded AK-47, two other loaded handguns, and an open bottle of Grey Goose Vodka.  Now Clarett is in jail for seven and a half years, and a possibility of getting out in three and a half. 

What a screwjob.

Prime Example #2
Travis Henry

Where do you start with Travis Henry?  Do you start with him fathering at least 11 children with 10 different women.  These women and pregnancies have occured in 4 different states.  'Nuff said right?  Nope, there's more.  Always is.  Besides being a pothead, Henry is apparently a coke head also.  In the fall of '08, he was arrested for "being the greedy "Money Guy" of the deal."  In July of '09, he was sentenced to three years for financing a cocaine trafficking operation.  Pretty good considering he was facing 10 years to life at first.

Henry was supposedly named the "Most Prolific Father" in the first annual Open Salon Father's Day Awards.  Pretty funny considering at one time, he was estimated at paying $170,000 a year per child, and was in jail for failure to pay child support.   

Henry apparently did not know that A.) Condoms existed, and B.) Being the money guy in multi-kilogram cocaine deal is illegal.

What an Idiot. 

Prime Example #3
Jamal Lewis

Besides looking like a criminal and serial killer in every team photo for him, Jamal Lewis pretty much is a criminal.  In 2004, he was arrested and charged with trying conspiring to possess with the intent to distribute 5 Kilograms of Cocaine and using a cell phone to do it.  He only served four months, and he never did actually complete the deal, but still, that's just as bad.  Consider this, at one time, Ray and Jamal Lewis were the faces of the Ravens franchise for a few years in the early 2000s, and lots of kids watch and love football.  What a great example for those kids. 

What a moron.

Just a thought I was having.  Henry's in jail, Clarett, who has family post his thoughts on a blog, is in jail, and Lewis definetely should be in jail. 

Comments?  Condoms forever, 11 kids and 10 women NEVER!!!!

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