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More information is emerging regarding whatever it was that resulted in Giants running back Ahmad Bradshaw being thrown in the hoosegow recently.
His lawyer, Charlie Stacy, has issued the following statement, which again comes via Mike Garafolo of the Newark Star-Ledger:
“Ahmad Bradshaw is currently serving a 30-day jail sentence in Abingdon Regional Jail in Virginia on a probation violation charged out of the Tazewell County Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court. The underlying charge in this matter stems from an offense that occurred while Mr. Bradshaw was a juvenile. Mr. Bradshaw has not been charged with any offense since being drafted by the New York Giants and is eager to put this matter behind him and be in training for the next season.”
This carefully crafted pile of gobbldy-gook sweetened with a dash of mumbo-jumbo ignores the reality that Bradshaw necessarily did something to result being placed in prison for 30 days. Unless he’s trying to re-create an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s FX series, Bradshaw violated the terms of his probation, got caught, and is paying the price.
Nevertheless, Mr. Stacy’s statement, as well as the prior statement released by the team, completely ignores the reality that Bradshaw did something to deserve being jailed. Both statements also overlook the fact that Bradshaw knew that he’d be incarcerated, given that he apparently surrendered voluntarily on Saturday as part of an apparently pre-arranged sentence that would fall within a rare dead spot on the NFL calendar.
Thus, we think that this is all an elaborate strategy aimed at allowing the Giants not to cut Bradshaw loose, even though he supposedly is/was on a short leash given his pre-draft transgressions. Since there’s no new “incident,” there’s no reason to take action against Bradshaw.
Still, we challenge the Giants and Charlie Stacy to come clean on what Bradshaw did. We also challenge the media to not fall for the line of crap that the team and the lawyer are selling (as Garafolo apparently has, based on his comments at the bottom of his latest entry).
June 19th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
It may be that he did something that wasn’t illegal, but was still a violation of his probation. I know when I was on probation, I was told I was NOT allowed to drink (I don’t anyways, so its a moot point). Perhaps there was some dumb stipulation that he couldn’t leave the county without permission and he did. Or maybe he was simply at a bar and his PO found out and threw the book at him. Neither of those are breaking any laws, just against the stips of his probation.
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
why do you have to know what he did so badly? does it in any way effect you? a team is trying to keep things private between itself and its players… if you want drama go cover the Cowboys and stop taking shots at a class team
oh yea PS: stop making off handed jokes about dead women (aka your dead hair dresser comment) you clown
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Florio, love the site, but don’t be a hater, man! You’re still sick about the Giants proving you wrong and winning the Big Game, aren’t you?! I bet you get a tingle between your legs everytime something negative happens to the Giants(ie: Plax, Shockey, Strahan, etc.). You’re upset that your prophecy about the Giants not being able to ever win with the personalities Ernie Accorsi “threw in the blender”, was proven DEAD WRONG when the Giants beat an 18-0 football team. As recently as the 14th of June you were still blowin’ about how they got lucky winning with the makeup of the team. Do you think if you keep getting up on the soap box, eventually you’ll wake up one day, and it’ll be true? It won’t. SB42 is in the books, and Accorsi got a ring, to boot!
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June 19th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
This might be a case of him failing to do something that he was supposed to as opposed to doing something wrong. This is no big deal to me, but I suppose you’ve got to write about something in the offseason.
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Ask Javon Walker what he did. I smell a conspiracy.
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Florio, why do you have to know so bad???don’t be a hater, man!!.LOL Giants fans do not want you to report about this at all.After all, its nobody’s business except Bradshaw & his parole officer.Maybe he’s a punk & that is why he lasted till the 7th round.He has been in jail since Saturday.Icase is updating us on his parole escapees.This site brings lots of “intersting “people. Don’t cry when the shoe is on the other foot.Don’t bother with any spygate stuff in reply.Tom Coughlin comes from the Parcells coaching tree & we heard what Bill had to say about that.Congrats on the Super Bowl win I don’t think you guys will make the playoffs this year.
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Florio, as a fan of the site, I must say I don’t really like the “guilty until proven innocent” approach you take in cases like these…
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Is he a “turd”, or simply a “d–k with ears”. Stay tuned . . .
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
please all of you Giants fan need to quit complaining about this, i’m sure all of you loved it when Vick got in trouble, now the Bradshaw is busted all of you say stop picking on him, he obviously did something wrong so just accept the fact that he is a turd
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
ampats says:
” brings lots of … spygate stuff in reply”.
Okay…
18-doh.
— A New Jersey woman in the midst of a heated divorce says New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick still gives her piles of money - even while he’s dating another blond divorcée…Belichick gets nothing in return. OKay, a little head never hurt anybody, okay?
NFL…“A game” means any game, including future games. Does not matter where the taping occurred, it was against the rules. (The fact that other rules talk about the sidelines, etc. does not mean that it was OK under this rule to tape from the stands.) Goodell confirmed this. Belichick argued (lied) that he thought this rule meant that you can’t tape if you want to use the tape for in-game help. Goodell said no, that interpretation is wrong, this rule means you can’t tape for the benefit of future games either. The issue was NOT where the Pats taped, it was that they taped.
…The entertainment value in Patriots fans talking their way out of this stuff is great.
Belichick’s got no credibility, and he makes it worse every time he speaks . He and the Pats are frauds.
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Thanks for asking.
In the statement the league released after it reached a legal agreement with Walsh, the N.F.L. said that Goodell had determined “the Patriots had violated league rules by videotaping opposing coaches’ defensive signals” throughout Belichick’s tenure as head coach.
The Pats got off easy.Belichick should be suspended for at least a year. The Pats, Beeely and their fans are still in denial . They have no room to point figures at anyone.
Okay, Bradshaw did something wrong and is paying the price. That’s only fair. The arrest is an old matter like Tom Brady’s shoulder on the weekly injury report…for 3 years. lol
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June 19th, 2008 at 10:16 pm
Nr4, I was being nice when I refererred to “intersting people,what I meant to say was morons like you. What does it have to do wth who BB is screwing?Hes been divorced for several years. Is she your wife or the blowup in your closet? Did you cherck out the blonde with him at the NBA Championship game that another team from Boston has won.Try learning alittle bit about the game, its evident that the NFL does not share your simplistic opinion.No denial just 3 Lombardi trophies in our lobby,how many in yours?
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June 19th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Arrest is an old matter like Tom Brady’s shoulder. I don’t remember a possible prison sentance for an injury report versus committing a crime. Like I said “interesting people on this site”. I hope you don’t have kids.
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June 20th, 2008 at 12:45 am
Oh yeah, by the way I’m a diehard Eagles fan…
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June 20th, 2008 at 1:30 am
nygiants2008 says:
June 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
why do you have to know what he did so badly? does it in any way effect you? a team is trying to keep things private between itself and its players… if you want drama go cover the Cowboys and stop taking shots at a class team
oh yea PS: stop making off handed jokes about dead women (aka your dead hair dresser comment) you clown
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Damn you. I was going to take your side until you had to bring up the Cowboys.
At any rate, I *still* think the Giants are a classy organization regardless of some of its fans. In fact the New York Giants did the world a favor when they beat Belicheat and the Cheatriots. Whatever problems the Giants have with Bradshaw or Shockey pale in comparison to the problems the Cheatriots have with integrity.
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June 20th, 2008 at 2:35 am
While many Giants fans would love to bury their heads in the sand on this I for one am very curious as to the whats, hows and whys. Bradshaw is a player I like on the field but I have taken great pride in the fact that the Giants (and the NFC East in general) have been absent from the Turd Watch for the last two seasons. This ruins our perfect string if it turns out that Bradshaw did do something new in violation of his parole. The Giants have been a team of character in recent history since the real LT packed up his crackpipe when he emptied his locker and I’d like it to stay that way.
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June 20th, 2008 at 5:24 am
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June 19th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Florio, as a fan of the site, I must say I don’t really like the “guilty until proven innocent” approach you take in cases like these”
Em, am I missing something? He has been proven guilty, or at least, he has gone to prison. Unless he’s innocent. and that court that sent him to prison, in which case we should launch a major investigation. Where’s Senator Specter when we need an investigation?
(I keep using word prison because prison is a place you’re sent to when you do something wrong- Bradshaw did something wrong).
Besides, he’s not even that good.
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June 20th, 2008 at 6:32 am
Ampats:
Nice dig at the Giants with the “3 lombardi trophies in the lobby”. Unfortunately for you, the Giants have their 3 lombardi trophies in the lobby. The other 4 NFL championship trophies (pre-superbowl) are put in storage because they ran out of room. Nice try, though.
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June 20th, 2008 at 7:20 am
My boyfriend was once detained for 30 days on a violation for not calling his probation officer enough and missing a piss test. It doesn’t take much to get violated.
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:29 am
florio
you have a documented history of calling tom
coughlin the “soup nazi”.if this is so,than can
one assume that he would be particularly adverse to
have a turd on the team?huh!
bradshaw is a work in progress,no one knows the whole
story.
who knows what happened here,the parole officer and
the giants might have come together on a plan to
rehabilitate the guy.that’s not a bad thing.
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:38 am
Sockpuppet, I forget who was the defensive coordinator for the first 2 super bowls wins? There seems to be a theory out there that the Tuna cannot win a Lombardi without a certain current Head Coach that alot of people like to talk trash about. Enjoy your trophy because you won’t see another for quite a while.
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June 20th, 2008 at 8:47 am
How much you want to bet he failed a drug test.
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
ampats, I believe the Tuna built that team that he then passed down to his very capable D coordinator. Unlike the team that aforementioned D Coordinator destroyed in Cleveland. Not saying Belichick isn’t a good coach, he is. But he hasn’t had the success grooming coaches that the Tuna has, nor the success with every team he’s been on that the Tuna has had.
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June 20th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Ampats:
And if you want to follow that line of reasoning then Romeo Crennel must be the real mastermind since he was a coach both on the Giants SB wins and the Pats SB wins and since his departure the Bill Belichick has been unable to bring home the hardware. See how silly that sounds. Just as silly as your assertion that Bill Belichick is somehow a better coach than Parcells.
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