It’s amazing that after Henry Ruggs (teammate of his) got arrested for drinking and driving, killing a innocent girl with him going speeds oh 156 mph, these asshat players still don’t learn even though they are given access to free Uber rides and can’t forget that they make millions to the point where the cost of driving across the country and back via Uber wouldn’t even affect their pockets. So many resources, yet still choose to be stupid. When will they ever learn?
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Another Raiders football player arrested for DUI: when will they ever learn?
Certainly not an excuse, but maybe more a reason….. you don’t look cool pulling up to the club in an Uber. These guys have fancy cars that they want to be seen in. That’s the whole point of owning them. So they drive there, good enough. When the time comes to leave…that’s when mistakes are made, obviously. But as far as what’s going through their heads, I sort of get it. It’s dumb, but I get what they were poorly-thinking.
What I don’t get is, why don’t you have a Turtle? I wouldn’t drive myself anywhere if I was that wealthy lmao. I’d have some friend who wants to second-handedly live the lifestyle with me drive me everywhere…
Happy-to-be-there friend is your chauffeur👍
Although it leaves the guy up for some mockery from the likes of 50 Cent lmao
Great thinking lol although , they can personally drive whatever they are driving and still pick up an Uber when going home and pick it up the next day. But I get what you mean. Their narcissism comes into full play and they don’t want the sense of ever feeling like a regular civilian ever again. I agree with the personal driver thing. I just think they have so much money and so much resources that the idea of “not wanting to be a regular civilian” anymore is inexcusable because there’s so many ways they can figure things out. Us regular people have one car, maybe possibly an Uber app and we better hope we have money in our bank accounts. I have money in my bank account obviously, but there’s people that don’t.
Haha, yeah, you’re not wrong, I guess I’d just maybe say that my good friend and ex-roommate played in the NFL, and he was a hanger-on, not making a ton of money. His deal was for like $1M over 3 years, and you really end up with like half of that after taxes, agent fees, etc, not to mention the money isn’t guaranteed, so you just get paid at that weekly rate for every week you remain on the team. They’ll cut you in a second and all those millions just *poof* disappear. So the reason I bring this up is, most of these players are not paid as well as we assume. We hear the top quarterbacks and left tackles and defensive ends getting these HUGE contracts, like a Patrick Mahomes getting like 10years/$500M, but most of these guys make wayyyyyy, wayyyyyy less than that. I remember my buddy being like “I bought a Chevy Suburban and thought I was fly, and then Michael Strahan pulled up next to me in the players’ lot in a Bentley.” So, right or wrong, these guys get competitive about their wealth. I didn’t watch the Raiders much this year, but I’ve never even heard of this kid in question. And he’s young, you don’t generally make your “big money” til your second contract when you’ve proven you can play in the League. But you’re still likely walking around with more in your bank account than you ever could reasonably dream about right off the rip.
So, anyway, I try to be understanding of people in general, good people make bad decisions sometimes, etc. I’m sure this is just some kid trying to live the dream, I get that, I’d be out wildin’ in the club too at that age. I’ve made the mistake at his age of thinking I could make it home on my own.
Easily one of the dumbest decisions I’ve ever made, but honestly, my mistake was not having a plan. Holding myself accountable for drunken decisions, I just can’t really do that, I literally crawled into my apartment while vomiting on the front lawn. SHOULD NOT HAVE BEEN MAKING DECISIONS, let alone been driving, holy shit, man. I didn’t take it 156 mph, JFC🤦♂️ I think I was like “if I take side street and back blocks the whole way and go slow, I’ll be straight.” And I was right-ish in retrospect, but there’s also no guarantee that I couldn’t have passed out at the wheel and veered into someone else head on, or run over a pedestrian, any of that shit. But absolutely none of that was on my mind at the time. I resolved to never do it again, but that required sober pre-decision-making. “I’ll take the bus to the bar, and I’ll figure out my way home later, worst bet, it’s a one-hour walk, suck it the hell up.” I think my worry was “what if I find a chick, how do I bring her home?”🤦♂️ Relax, Steve-O…. you ain’t THAT good😂 But I think this is why you need that Turtle in your crew😂
But yeah, I think I just try to avoid looking at it like “we’re regular people, you’re not, it’s different for you.” Believe me, I’ve hung out at clubs with NFL players…. they’re just dudes, there’s no wizard when you get behind the curtain. Some are cool, some are assholes, some are 50/50, a couple guys were nice enough but kinda dorky and I found it was me trying to politely excuse myself from conversations, lmao. These are just guys dealing with a very weird situation of suddenly having money to back up the enabling a lot of them have gotten as athletes up to that point.
Like my roommate was the proverbial Big Man On Campus, he got superstar treatment. I guess I was sort of his Turtle, lmao, except I was the one who had any semblance of money in my pocket. He was like my little brother I looked after because I knew he was going places if he did it right, and I wanted to see him get there. He drank a little wine and threw up all over the patio once, he wasn’t really much of a drinker😂😂😂 but christ, I ended up in all kinds of fights and dumb shit just rolling with him. Good kid in his heart, but he’s a hot dog of the highest order lmfao, thinks he’s a model on top of an athlete, he’s absolutely a narcissist, just a reasonably well-meaning one. But the point is, I think it’s easy to pile on someone with money for it, but really, in a vacuum, the offense is the same whether they’re rich or broke. I don’t say of this to excuse anything, these guys, and everyone really, need to make better decisions. I think we get frustrated by not having their money and we hold them to a different standard, and maybe we shouldn’t, and should remember these are really just kids. I’ll try to name you a good decision I made in my 20s, but I don’t know how long you’ll be here on the site, we might not have that much time😂 I think it’s just something we all need to get better at knowing in life. “Drunk driving: you’ll probably be fine, but you still shouldn’t do it anyway, because there’s a chance it won’t be fine, and that albeit less-likely scenario’s outcomes are devastating enough that you gotta scrap the whole idea because even if you make it home the last 99 times, the 100th might be a real doozy.
But your point is well-taken…. absolutely mind-boggling that someone could have a teammate have a drunk driving tragedy, literally just months ago, like this same football season, and then go and do the same shit🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
I think it has to do with them just being ignorant with their money. Of course they get these millions of dollar contracts so they buy the best car they can find, buy all the alcohol they can and party, then hey they have this new super nice sports car might as well drive it and bam (literally in terms of Henry Ruggs) a DUI and who knows what else that could’ve happened. Many of these guys come from places without much money so getting so much at one time I’m sure is overwhelming and they want to show it off. The league has to teach them better.
Exactly! It’s the NFL caring about money more than anything and not becoming strict with punishments for incidents like these because they feel like they will lose ratings for heavily punishing players that act irresponsibly. That’s how they know majority of the nfl players are delinquent assholes and don’t want to hold them accountable until they end up like Henry Ruggs And Antonio Brown
That's just it, dumb people will never learn. Only the smart ones like me learn. I did it once without incident and it scared the he'll out of me. It was the first and last time I did it. I know... if I was really smart I wouldn't have driven drunk the first time, you're absolutely right
I have to admit, I have been in a dui accident as well. I will say : I didn’t know I was still drunk when mine happened as I passed out on the couch and I thought I woke up sober, BUT I feel like these people have so many more resources compared to average people and they still don’t learn. It’s insane. My accident also scared me into just barely drinking when I will be driving. One drink for me only
I wonder if the Raiders will make the playoffs this year, because Raiders and playoffs in the same sentence has been non-existent for like 20 years now except for 2016.
Many people thought things would change or improve after Al Davis passed away in 2011
unfortunately, it's one of the bad aspects of the league... as long as he didn't kill anyone, it will be considered minor and still eligible to keep playing, many players in all sports feel entitled to this... because they are indeed, entitled to this by the Leagues, they are given special considerations as long as they can profit with them
Henry Ruggs incident is a result of the NFL taking simple DUIs like this not seriously however, so unfortunately yeah it’s the bad aspects of the league an innocent life was lost by Henry Ruggs because of the league was shaking off minor DUI incidents like this one’s
yeah... but that's money and it will corrupt many people
I seriously hope it gets better before it gets worse but who knows... even at a college level now, the players will be able and allowed to monetize their fame through their social media and get endorsement deals
this could turn some college players into becoming an online person and might start doing "anything" for likes, then attention and therefore money... money, money, money...
NFL and football in general values money first and second, nothing else
The Raiders never read a charector report on any player. It's why they always end up with suspended players. Both Ruggs and Hobbs are very young and new to the league and having money. NFL stands for not for long for a reason. Even guys that get those contracts have conditions they have to follow to get that money.
Unfortunately there’s going to be more Henry Ruggs incidents to come. Ruggs situation is probably worse case scenario all because NFL doesn’t want to tighten up on what they allow
Your definition of embarrassing is you pretending like you won debates via GAG because you become over the top with your debating and piss people off, so yeah no.
The thing is, it’s multiple men. And it’s inexcusable in my opinion. They have too many resources to not think that they have multiple options before getting in a car while overly drunk. Its ridiculous.
@zagor they have resources to the point where they can sort this out before even arriving anywhere they just choose not to. I have been in a dui accident before, and I. Know alcohol alters your mind, but I am not a millionaire, my circumstances were different, and I didn’t have access to a free Uber like he does.
And I am not excusing my dui accident by all means, but I think it gets to a point when your teammate has a deadily dui accident prior, you would think that you would take better precautions as another teammate losing your teammate to that exact thing.
It’s a sad cause that the NfL won’t even turn their cheek to because they are so money hungry they would rather see their players end up like Henry Ruggs before doing anything about it
Maybe NFL should stop being greedy money hogs and put their players first. They had AB looking like boo boo the fool yesterday because they gave that guy chances he should’ve never even been able to question earning
Yeah unfortunately that won’t happen. The NFL cares about money. Antonio Brown sexually assaulted a girl, on top of other psycho mental breakdowns he has had and he still got another chance.
And thats wrong, its also why I don’t watch football anymore. I refuse to pay for the trashy people that play now. Values went out the door a long time ago.
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