In an interview with his old college magazine earlier this year, Blount talked about how he escaped from a neighborhood growing up where “everyone wanted to sell drugs.” So this is going to be one of those disappointing-role-model stories. Too bad — give Corie 30 points, mostly for the guns, as this doesn’t sound too much like a Nate Newton I’m-a-big-dude-and-I-need-to-smoke-a-lot-of-weed situation.
Really crappy story
A late entrant in the race for most depressing sports tale of the year: former University of Washington All-America football player and Detroit Lions first-round draftee Reggie Rogers was arrested for his fifth DUI last week. Why is this particularly depressing? Because Rogers is the poster boy for unreformed drunk drivers — 20 years ago he was involved in one of the worst incidents to ever touch the NFL, when he ran a red light drunk and killed three teenagers.
When Rogers was arrested, he was so disoriented that he called one of the troopers “Coach James,” a reference to his former coach at Washington, Don James.
Give 70 points to a guy who killed three kids and still can’t stop getting behind the wheel drunk.
When he’s not googling “it ain’t easy smokin’ green” and “rolling Blount,” Matt Taibbi writes for Rolling Stone. He can be reached atm_taibbi@yahoo.com.
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