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Sep
2009
Thursday Round-Up: Vick eligible? Top-selling NFL jerseys; Romo’s new woman
America has spoken. Favre and Vick top jersey sales
Lots going on this week as we prepare for the final pre-season games, roster cuts, fantasy football drafts, and very soon, the start of the NFL season. Time to get fired up, folks!
Here is your Thursday Round-Up:
- Michael Vick likely to be eligible for Week 1, and is reportedly meeting with Roger Goodell today [NFL Fanhouse]. Wow, really? Goodell sure seems to be caving quickly on this one. Is our society’s tolerance for mistakes and capacity for forgiveness this great? Or do we just have a short memory when it comes to our “heroes”? Probably the latter, huh?
- Along those lines, CNBC put together a list of the top-selling jerseys in the NFL. Brett Favre is #1. Michael Vick is #4. Self respect did not make the list.
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Candice Crawford will now distract Romo from his football playing duties
The Detroit Lions won the Kevin O’Connell sweepstakes, signing him to back up Matt Stafford and Daunte Culpepper. [Yahoo!]
- In case you care, Peter King gives his 2009 NFL predictions, with projected records for each team, along with his playoff forecast. SPOILER ALERT! – he has the Bears vs Patriots in the Super Bowl. [SportsIllustrated]
- Tony Romo’s got a hot new squeeze, and it’s former miss Missouri Candace Crawford, who also happens to be the sister of teen hearthrob Chase Crawford. [US Weekly]. And I really couldn’t care less … just an excuse to post a picture of a hot chick.
UPDATE: The Winnepeg Sun says it was a rambling internet video post by Pacman that caused them to re-consider:
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Sep
2009
Pacman Jones headed north to play in Canada
Pacman Jones will surely be spending a lot of time checking out the Canadian Ballet
In a move that makes perfect sense on a lot of levels – specifically because there are TONS of great strip clubs up there – Pacman Jones has agreed to a one-year deal with the Winnepeg Blue Bombers of the Canadian Football League.
“It’ll be a good experience for me to get back in game shape and compete and play football, which I like to do,” Jones told SI.com. “I’m real happy for the opportunity that’s been given to me. Of course it’s disappointing to me to not be playing in the NFL. But things happen and you have to adjust. “
Yeah, “things”. We know how it is Pacman.
We’re not sure why Jones chose the CFL over the UFL (ahem – strip clubs), but Jones could join the Blue Bombers, who are currently 3-5, as early as Wednesday to help them make a run at the Grey Cup.
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Jul
2009
VIDEO: Pacman Makes it Rain Prior to Strip Club Shooting
ESPN’s Outside The Lines aired this video today from Minxxx Strip Club in Las Vegas during NBA All-Star Weekend 2007, which shows the events that led-up to a fight inside the club, and the shooting of 3 people outside the same strip club, later that night.
In the video, Pacman Jones (along with cameos by Jermaine Dupri and Nelly) are seen throwing piles of cash at the strippers on the stage, and inciting a near melee as the dancers began picking up the cash off the ground instead of dancing. But the video ends before – according to bouncer’s from the club – Jones approached the dancer who was collecting the money, grabbed her by the hair and hit her in the face with a closed fist.
Check it out for yourselves:
(Non-blurry, raw video from the Las Vegas Review Journal here)
Honestly, based on reports and everything I’ve learned from rap videos, I expected it to be way more chaotic in that club. Pacman was just chillin’ up there tossing cash over his shoulder … he genuinely looked bored. And Jermaine Dupri was actually trying to keep some semblance of order among the dancers!
And yet somehow things still managed to get out of hand. Shocking.
From the OTL report:
Jones told police he arrived at the club with “close to $100,000.” He took $40,000 out of his Louis Vuitton bag and exchanged it for several stacks of $1 bills, which he put in a black trash bag, according to his statement. So much money was thrown onto the main stage that dancers, after their sets, started filling buckets with the loose bills covering the stage.
When several dancers bent over to collect the cash, Dupri took over the DJ’s microphone and said: “We gonna show y’all how to make it rain.”
“Don’t start getting the money until I tell y’all to get off the stage,” Dupri said. “… Just keep f—ing dancing! Don’t bend down and try to get your money.”
Apparently some strippers just don’t listen. (KIDDING, folks! Just kidding.)
Look, I have no idea what transpired after this video ended, nor to I pretend to know what happened outside when folks got shot. And this video doesn’t do much to clarify the situation. But clearly this evening was a recipe for disaster from the beginning. And Minxxx is as culpable as anyone for letting this storm brew inside their club while their bouncers watched and condoned it … hell, the DJ actually applauds Jermaine Dupri when he was yelling at the strippers! At least Nelly knew better than to be videotaped for very long, and obviously he and Dupri got the hell out of there when things got out of hand.
Pacman, on the other hand, was probably protecting that Louis Vitton bag of his, and must’ve gotten caught up in a blur of flying spandex and bad weaves fighting over his cash. If I’ve seen it once, I’ve seen it a hundred times …
