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Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
Yeah, they really cave in to the World Series. Which is wierd because it isn't always a stellar series. This year, football would have possibly beat the WS in ratings as Boston was up 3-0. So it was pretty meaningless at the point.
As for me, I miss COPS. That's my show. And they haven't shown it the last 2 or 3 weeks due to playoff baseball.
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Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
As for me, I miss COPS. That's my show. And they haven't shown it the last 2 or 3 weeks due to playoff baseball.
Why, are you on there a lot or something?:haha: Just kidding, I love that show too.
Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
Haha, I like to watch it because it makes me glad I didn't go out & do something crazy... So it's like somebody else did it for me & suffered the results, all while I can just stay in on a Saturday night. It does make me realize cops do put up with alot of shit. Not only risking their lives (that's more World's craziest videos) but just in dealing with annoying people, liars etc. It's hard to get a story straight when hearing two sides to it.
I do hate when they pull people over for having a tail light out, or not using a turn signal etc.. That's kinda bogus. But it's funny when they end up having like 10 pounds of pot in their car. It's like buddy, can't you fix your tail light before buying all that weed.
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Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
I always laugh when they get their night stick out and start beating the criminal while saying "Stop resisiting arrest!" Good stuff...
Jags DT Marcus Stroud is being suspended for steroids. They brought in Grady Jackson to take his place in the meantime. But when Stroud gets back, man oh man will Jacksonville be tough up the middle (not that they arent already).
Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
Judge critical of Reid's home
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) - A judge who sentenced Philadelphia Eagles coach Andy Reid's sons to jail on Thursday likened the coach's home to "a drug emporium" and questioned whether his adult sons should live there.
"There isn't any structure there that this court can depend upon," Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill said before sentencing 22-year-old Britt Reid to up to 23 months in jail plus probation.
"I'm saying this is a family in crisis," O'Neill said.
Earlier Thursday, O'Neill sentenced 24-year-old Garrett Reid, a drug addict and dealer who said he got a thrill out of selling drugs in "the 'hood," to up to 23 months in jail for smashing into another motorist's car while high on heroin.
O'Neill noted that searches of the Reid home found illegal and prescription drugs throughout the house. He said both boys had been overmedicated throughout much of their lives and that Britt got hooked on painkillers when he suffered a football injury in high school.
"It sounds more or less like a drug emporium there, with the drugs all over the house, and you're an addict," O'Neill told Britt Reid.
Andy Reid and his wife, Tammy, were in court but declined to comment. The judge said the parents clearly loved and supported their children and had tried many times over the years to get them help.
"Andy and Tammy are supportive of their son. That has been their position since this all began. He will not comment on it," Garrett Reid's defense attorney, Ross Weiss, said before the judge's comments.
Both Weiss and Britt Reid's attorney, William Winning, declined to comment after the hearing. Andy and Tammy Reid quickly were escorted by sheriff's deputies and their personal bodyguard through the courthouse basement.
Both sons lived at their parents' home in the suburb of Villanova at the time of their arrests.
Andy Reid took a five-week leave from the Eagles in the offseason to deal with his family's troubles. He has routinely declined to discuss his sons' legal problems, but said he would not resign from the team because of them.
On Thursday, Britt Reid said everything he did, he did without his parents' knowledge, but O'Neill questioned that.
Both Reids can apply for a special drug court program that would require them to report to authorities regularly, undergo rigorous drug testing and hold down jobs.
The coach's two sons got into separate legal trouble Jan. 30.
Garrett Reid tested positive for heroin and admitted having used it that day. He ran a red light in Plymouth Township and hit another car. Authorities found syringes with heroin and testosterone in his SUV.
In a separate incident that same day, Britt Reid pointed a handgun at another driver following a dispute. He pleaded guilty to a string of charges, including carrying a firearm without a license, a felony.
Britt Reid was sentenced to eight to 23 months in jail plus five years' probation on gun and drug charges. He can apply for the special drug program after five months.
Garrett Reid was sentenced to two to 23 months in the county prison plus one year of probation. He told O'Neill that he would apply to the drug court program.
"I don't want to be that kid who was the son of the head coach of the Eagles, who was spoiled and on drugs and OD'd and just faded into oblivion," he said in court.
Senior Deputy Attorney General Marc Costanzo said authorities were satisfied with the sentence, noting "the drug court is the best part."
Speaking in court and in a statement to a probation officer, Garrett Reid said he made a fast descent into hard drugs and enjoyed being the rich kid who dealt drugs in poor, violent Philadelphia neighborhoods and in the tony suburbs.
His addiction persists, according to authorities, who found 89 prescription drug pills in Reid's jail cell Thursday morning. They believe he smuggled them in his rectum when he was jailed earlier this week.
"That's consistent with someone as severely drug addicted as he is," prosecutor Costanzo said.
Garrett Reid's descent in drug use and dealing was steep, according to a probation report read in court. Reid said he didn't use drugs until he graduated from high school, then started with marijuana and alcohol at age 18. That was followed by prescription pain killers Percocet and OxyContin, and then cocaine and heroin.
Reid said he sold drugs to his friends and their parents in the suburbs and in a notoriously tough section of Philadelphia.
"I liked being the rich kid in that area and having my own high status life," Reid told a probation officer in a statement read by the judge. "I could go anywhere in the 'hood. They all knew who I was. I enjoyed it. I liked being a drug dealer."
He said in court Thursday that he has stopped selling drugs.
"I did get a thrill out of it," he said. "That was also part of the whole new world that opened up to me when I smoked that first joint."
Re: The NFL 2007-08 Season thread
"I liked being the rich kid in that area and having my own high status life," Reid told a probation officer in a statement read by the judge. "I could go anywhere in the 'hood. They all knew who I was. I enjoyed it. I liked being a drug dealer."
I'm still stunned about how stupid this guy sounds. I liked to believe that Andy Reid taught his sons better than this, and it just blows my mind that they can be this stupid.
Both sons lived at their parents' home in the suburb of Villanova at the time of their arrests.
This right here kills my whole argument for defending Andy Reid. Whenever I defended him I would always work on the assumption that the sons didn't live with their parents. B/c you couldnt blame the parents at all if the kids lived on their own. But if all of this shit was going on in his house, shit is going to hit the fan. I caught something on sports center saying about how the NFL is going to have to respond to this quickly b/c if they dont, its going to look like a double standard with players compared to coaches.
This is going to get (even more) ugly.
