Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions UPDATED

[slappy4428]

Disciplined in house. Matt Millen is amazing...

A Detroit Lions assistant coach was arrested twice in the last two weeks, once for allegedly driving drunk and once for indecent and obscene conduct, the Free Press has learned.

In the latter incident, a Dearborn police ticket describes the coach as “driving on public street without any clothes on. (NUDE).”

Joe Cullen, whom first-year head coach Rod Marinelli hired from the University of Illinois, coaches the defensive line. Cullen, 38, posted bond in both misdemeanor cases and was still coaching the Lions at practice Wednesday.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060906/NEWS99/60906025

 

[Columbo]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

Disciplined in house. Matt Millen is amazing...

A Detroit Lions assistant coach was arrested twice in the last two weeks, once for allegedly driving drunk and once for indecent and obscene conduct, the Free Press has learned.

In the latter incident, a Dearborn police ticket describes the coach as “driving on public street without any clothes on. (NUDE).”

Joe Cullen, whom first-year head coach Rod Marinelli hired from the University of Illinois, coaches the defensive line. Cullen, 38, posted bond in both misdemeanor cases and was still coaching the Lions at practice Wednesday.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060906/NEWS99/60906025

Matt the Tank!

 

[Beef03]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

Who needs a love boat? This guy is a one-man show

 

[The Commish]

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He must be the one who shows the defenders how to strip the football.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

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This thread is worthless with pics.

 

[slappy4428]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

Nice...

 

[Claws for Concern]

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Same old Lions ...

 

[slappy4428]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

Less public embare-ass-ment than this got Gary Moeller fired from Michigan.
This guy gets popped not once, but twice and gets "handled in house..."
Wow.

 

[Starman]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

This is another George O'Leary situation.

Cullen's bio on the Lions' web site does not indicate that he ever coached at Mississippi.

Of course, a cursory Google search of the name "joe cullen" turns up the drunk driving case, and the resultant lawsuit, at Result #12.

Cullen was hired by Marinelli, Matt Millen's (third) hand-picked choice as head coach.

Millen was the guy who was shocked, deeply shocked, to find out that Charles Rogers was a recreational drug user and had a nonexistent work ethic, although you couldn't pick up a paper in Michigan or go on the Internet in fall 2002 and without being innundated with abundant evidence to exactly those facts.

Who is ultimately responsible for background checks of everyone hired by the organization? Why, the President and Chief Operating Officer, of course. Matt Millen.

I mean, if you're too stupid to do it yourself (I have doubts Millen has the brainpower in his own right not to put his underwear on backwards less than four times a week), HIRE SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO IT.

 

[slappy4428]

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(I have doubts Millen has the brainpower in his own right not to put his underwear on backwards less than four times a week),

That's out of bounds. You have to be a bright boy to go to Penn State. The underwear thing, I'm told, is a 200-level class.

 

[Claws for Concern]

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I hear the guy's favorite band is Bare Naked Ladies

 

[Football_Bat]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

The guy already has a website apparently:

 

[slappy4428]

Re: Baring his soul (and everything else) for the Lions

And it gets better...

Detroit Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen’s nakedness behind the wheel was first reported by a burger joint drive-thru worker, who called police after a nude man in an SUV pulled up to his window.

The worker, who took down Cullen’s license plate number, told Dearborn officers after the late-night incident on Aug. 24 “the suspect did nothing obscene, other than being naked at the drive-thru.”

Police reports obtained by the Free Press on Thursday say nothing about Cullen drinking alcohol, or being inebriated in any way – as Lions officials claimed Wednesday when the Free Press first inquired about Cullen’s arrest.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060907/NEWS99/60907026

 

[Starman]

And it gets better...

Detroit Lions assistant coach Joe Cullen’s nakedness behind the wheel was first reported by a burger joint drive-thru worker, who called police after a nude man in an SUV pulled up to his window.

The worker, who took down Cullen’s license plate number, told Dearborn officers after the late-night incident on Aug. 24 “the suspect did nothing obscene, other than being naked at the drive-thru.”

Police reports obtained by the Free Press on Thursday say nothing about Cullen drinking alcohol, or being inebriated in any way – as Lions officials claimed Wednesday when the Free Press first inquired about Cullen’s arrest.

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060907/NEWS99/60907026

Still no word on Cullen's, and Millen's, contracts being immediately terminated. Business as usual.

 

[TwoGloves]

Less public embare-ass-ment than this got Gary Moeller fired from Michigan.
This guy gets popped not once, but twice and gets "handled in house..."
Wow.

In this case, wouldn't it be a case of "pubic" embare-ass-ment?

 

[slappy4428]

UPDATE: He's suspended for the opener..

 

[Riddick]

Sadly enough, if this had happened in Minnesota, the coach probably would have been fired. I say sadly, because how is that the Vikings become the pillar of ethics in the nfl?

 

[Chuck~Taylor]

Sadly enough, if this had happened in Minnesota, the coach probably would have been fired. I say sadly, because how is that the Vikings become the pillar of ethics in the nfl?

Give me a S!
Give me a M!
Give me a...

 

[lono]

Sheesh, a man can't go to the drive-thru naked in his SUV without The Man bringing him down.

What's happening to America? LOL

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Why couldn't Duke's women's lacrosse coach do this?