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As it turns out, there are worse things you can do with a bottle of champagne than spray it into a crowd of strangers.
Giants cornerback Geoffrey Pope faces felony charges in Detroit after allegedly hitting a man over the head with a champagne bottle.
The victim is the son of a local television anchor, and he took 28 stitches to the ear.
Pope was celebrating his birthday. We hope that, when he blew out the candles, he wished for a good defense lawyer.
June 21st, 2008 at 7:27 pm
I think I speak for 99.5% of Giants fans when I ask - “WHO?”
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June 21st, 2008 at 7:48 pm
Let me guess he’s a homey from the low life community growing up that just doesn’t get it? Will you listen to Bill Cosby for just once!!!!!!
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June 21st, 2008 at 7:52 pm
So what have learned in the past week (or so):
1) Hit a man over the head with a champagne bottle and be charged with a felony.
OR
2) Spray a crowd of dancers with champagne, and become the victim of a felony.
Anybody see a common theme here…put your hand down if you play in the NFL.
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June 21st, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Who would have thought that the World Champ NY Giats would start producing turds.
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June 21st, 2008 at 8:45 pm
Happy Birthday
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June 21st, 2008 at 9:11 pm
Florio is slipping…what kind of champagne was it?
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June 21st, 2008 at 9:51 pm
Whatever happened to just christening a boat…
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June 21st, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I hoping it ends up a felony conviction with Goodell imposing a season long suspension.
The guy is a punk and the financial loss of a season’s worth of wages would do more to change his behavior than our court system.
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June 21st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Forum cop you are a idiot. Do us a favor and just shut your mouth. It pigs like you who give good cops a good name dumbass. Now back to the post. bavaro89 I speak for 99.5 percent of NFL fans that ask WHO?
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June 21st, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Geoff is a friend of mine, and I am really disappointed with this news. He’s a good guy, but he’s clearly made a big mistake.
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June 21st, 2008 at 11:10 pm
And JimmySmith, Geoff is not a punk. I will admit he did something really stupid, but this is one incident and that does not make him a punk.
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June 21st, 2008 at 11:26 pm
I think he just mistook the guy for a boat. A common error right?
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June 22nd, 2008 at 12:51 am
Give good cops a good name?….Forum cop, you’re dead on…maybe ESPN will weave together yet another “whoa is me” saga played to some soft background music…
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:27 am
That’s too bad because he would have made the roster if Aaron Ross, Corey Webster, Sam Madison, Terrell Thomas, and Kevin Dockery all suffered serious injuries during training camp.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:41 am
ChrisJNelson,
What’s your definition of a punk if hitting another human being over the head with a champange bottle doesn’t quite rise up to that level?
The real issue is that athletes are dealt with inside our legal system with kid’s gloves (OJ Simpson, just recently Lynch of the Buffalo Bills) and it gives them a false sense of entitlement.
Call Pope what you want but in the eyes of a law abiding public, the guy is a punk.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 11:41 am
GeauxSaints12, It is DUMB ASSES like YOU that can’t look reality in the face!!! You DOPE!
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June 22nd, 2008 at 12:05 pm
I am in no way defending what he did. It was a stupid, stupid thing to do, it was wrong and he should pay the consequences of the law. I just don’t feel one instance with no prior trouble makes him a punk. If someone has shown a pattern of such behavior, like a Pacman or Chris Henry, then I can understand the label. But as someone that knows Geoff, I know he is not a bad guy and rather just someone that made a very stupid mistake.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Can we develop a hybrid car that runs on champagne? There appears to be plenty of it around.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Forum cop please dont talk about reality, because you must not know what reality is. Just because someone you don’t know does something stupid doesnt means HE A HOMEY FROM THE RUFF PART OF TOWN. You don’t know the hood and you can’t tell if someone is a homey or not from something stupid he did dumbass. Its stupid dumbass rednecks like you who think everything in the world is even and fair. Yes he got in trouble and yes he going to pay for it, but for some bitch like you to say that hes SOME HOMEY show how much intellect you must have. Get a aplication at the local communtiy college and learn something. PLEASE.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 6:21 pm
GeauxSaints12 says:
June 22nd, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Forum cop please dont talk about reality, because you must not know what reality is. Just because someone you don’t know does something stupid doesnt means HE A HOMEY FROM THE RUFF PART OF TOWN. You don’t know the hood and you can’t tell if someone is a homey or not from something stupid he did dumbass. Its stupid dumbass rednecks like you who think everything in the world is even and fair. Yes he got in trouble and yes he going to pay for it, but for some bitch like you to say that hes SOME HOMEY show how much intellect you must have. Get a aplication at the local communtiy college and learn something. PLEASE. [Yes sir, we know who needs Hooked On Phonics here!!!!]
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Making a mistake is doing 55 in a 40 MPH Zone. Hitting a guy in the head with a champagne bottle is not a random act of violence, its a sign that his ability to control his actions have taken a very long vaction. The remedy is an equally long vacation surrounded by similar minded people who tend to penalize you for dropping the soap. This should be taken seriously by the Giants and the NFL, that playing pro football is a priviledge and if you are going to abuse your fellow citizens with champagne bottles, you are unworthy to wear an NFL uniform, join our punk friends on Sunday afternoon and watch it on TV with the rest of us.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Even as his friend, I fully think he should suffer the consequences for his actions. But once he has paid those consequences, whatever they may be, then he does not deserve to be punished further. Maybe this will end his career, especially since he only came in as an undrafted free agent and hadn’t really established himself yet. But Geoff is a good guy who really f’ed up.
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June 24th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Now that Geoff Pope has been cleared of all charges, I am sure that all of you self-righteous nitwits will not be back to state how wrong you were about him. Geoff is not a critical player to the Giants and he his deep on the depth chart, but he didn’t deserve the comments that he received here. Come on now.
…and Jimmy Smith, you want a mistake? How about how you call yourself “Jimmy” when your name is James? Are you a twelve year old? Only children and adults with low intelligence go by cute names ending in y. Little Jimmy; that has has a nice ring to it; Little Jimmy.
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