Detroit Lions win breach-of-contract judgment against doper Charles Rogers

MustangJ17 will only talk in the third person in honor of Charles Rogers.

 

I know somewhere we had a thread on Jemele Hill's slurpee-slurpee sob-story piece on Rogers a month or so ago:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/eticket/story?page=090814/rogers



Well Golll-leee, guess what:

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/20966213/detail.html

 

I think they've got to line up behind the Baby Mommas.

 

Je. Hill's story was readable, and juuuust nearly enjoyable, which is the most interesting thing about any of this.

ESPN prior has had some fixation with offensive players who've smoked themselves out of the league.

 

Wait a minute...he got pulled over on 8 Mile Road? Christ, that is just awesome.

Cause man, these goddamn food stamps don't buy marijuana
And it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer, this is my life

 

8 Mile Road in Novi is WORLDS away from the 8 Mile part in Detroit.

 

Oh. Umm, then I got nothin.

 

Still funny. But if Rogers had passed out in a Mercedes on Eminem's part of 8 Mile, it might have been stripped before he came to

 

Had he been a Miami guy, Dan LeBatard would have come out of retirement (or off sabbatical or whatever it is he's doing) to write it ...

 

In my world of journalism, any story about "troubled athlete has a whole new attitude, straightening himself out," gets an instantaneous spike, and anybody who suggests more than one of these stories every five years would be fired. Because once every five years is about the frequency with which any of these stories ever has a positive outcome.

 

*cough*Josh Hamilton*cough*

 

The best part is he was passed out behind the wheel at 2 p.m.!