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Roger Goodell didn't have to wait a week to make up his mind; it seems that every day he was on his new job a new problem (child) came to light; his days are spent answering questions concerning Bad Atheletes. The worst of the lot, with no doubt in anyone's mind (except, of course, his mother's) was Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones.

Ten times in Pac's short career with the Titans, the police came a-knocking (ten times we know about; that little incident in Georgia was secret for a full year before anyone knew what was up). The last straw, the worst of a string of bad incidents, was the Las Vegas 'let it rain' money payday spray that caused a senseless tradegy...that has yet to begin to finish. From the original story....

"...Tom Urbanski, is still in a Las Vegas hospital and is reported to be paralyzed from the waist down as a result of the gunshots in the incident that occurred early Monday."

Hmmmph. Thanks, Floyd Reese, for that pick...

Actually, Pac's lucky; that little Las Vegas party could have turned on him: he could have "woke up dead", like Bronco's Cornerback Darrent Williams did, during party-time on New Year's day...

So, back to Pac and Roger Goodell...

"It is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right,"

and

"These players and all members of our league have to make the right choices and decisions in their conduct on a consistent basis."

"It is important that the NFL be represented consistently by outstanding people as well as great football players, coaches and staff,"

Notice how Goodell has called out each and every NFL player, and also Coaches, ball boys, cheerleaders, Owners, etc., and basically said "You sonsabeekeepers have to keep your noses clean, and stop doing things that are annoying me, and troubling the fans, and distracting entire cities for cryin' out loud, or you too will be slammed with sanctions so hard that your own mothers cry out in pain..." It's about time that attitude was 'splained to these gamesmen.

Oh, and Pac's mother, Deborah Jones, did cry his support...

"I just pray that this can be changed. This is not fair for him. It's just not fair."

You know, I seem to recall Pac himself saying things along the same vein; blaming his troubles on media attention, on lack of life's fairness, on his troubled 'hood upbringing. There's just so much of that upchuck we can stand, before we say, look, you're a grown man, now. Time to leave the 'hood and the crooks and, yes, even your own mother behind, if she can't get past the 'protection without reason' phase. Instead of smoking that dope with you, Pac, she should have slapped you silly and told you to grow up.

That would have saved a lot of good people a lot of bad troubles.

Earlier posts on Pac: Fisher sends Pac off to NYC

Titans have Bad Karma, and it shows

Pac's Georgia Hauntings