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After a week involving players spraying champagne and swinging champagne bottles, one of them apparently decided to drink some of the stuff. And then drive. Allegedly.
TitansRadio.com, an arm of the official site of the Tennessee Titans, reports that Titans defensive end Jevon Kearse has been arrested for DUI.
“Metro Nashville police said Kearse was seen speeding and swerving several times while traveling west on West End Avenue,” the site reported.
Police said that Kearse had red eyes, slurred his speech, and smelled of alcohol. He refused to submit to a breath test, but there’s no word on whether he failed a field sobriety test.
Kearse was a stud rookie for the Titans in 1999. He signed with the Eagles as a free-agent when his rookie contract expired, and re-signed with the Titans after being cut earlier this year by Philly.
June 22nd, 2008 at 11:21 pm
Yeah, but DUIs are avoidable for NFL players. As pointed out, there is a service for them. Most of us don’t have that advantage and stupidly take the chance of not getting caught when we have had “one too many.” Football players don’t even have to spring for a cab or a driver for the night. The NFL provides the service for free.
If a player is too stupid to take advantage of this free service, they deserve to be suspended when they get busted. The League provides an alternative to breaking the law, they should implemente negative incentives to not using it.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 1:46 am
phillywest argues that NFL players are not responsible for DUI/DWI individually — rather society as a whole is the perpetrator.
Well, Pacman should definitely be reinstated under that theory. He is a fatherless african-american. It is not his fault that he acted the way he did — rather it was society.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 2:10 am
Fair enough, LiveNBreath. I wonder how many players actually use the service?
Since it seems not too many are taking advantage it, maybe the NFL could lend it out to us common folk. Would be nice for those of us stranded in cities with crap-tastic public transit (LA).
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June 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 am
phillywest2
bad argument,who’s to say that the 240 players out
of 1590 players you cite have never driven drunk.
just think how many times they probably drove drunk and
got away with it.
it’s simple logistics,the police are’nt everywhere.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 9:01 am
All of you that feel that football players should be banned from playing football for driving drunk sound like complete and utter imbeciles.
We live in a society with laws in place to deal with these problems. The infractions have nothing to do with football or the player’s abilities to play football, nor does it have anything to do with their abilities to pay for a taxi.
The league has no business whatsoever interfering with people’s private lives. It boggles my mind how un-american the support for Herr Fuhrer Roger Goodell and his crusade for morality is.
Let people be human and make mistakes for Christ’s sake - who the hell are y’all to judge these people?
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June 23rd, 2008 at 11:15 am
such rates in the nfl are probly more like 85%.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:09 pm
“If we just look at the players in the NFL (53 man roster * 30 teams = 1590 players), we would expect 240 players to drive under the influence and a smaller subset to be arrested for it.”
Sure, if everything else is a constant. It’s not. Most people don’t make what football players make and can’t afford to rent a limo to go clubbing in, unlike every player in the NFL.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 4:23 pm
I agree with ryanmc, the Titans organization and Jeff Fisher should receive some ridicule. I routinely see the Bengals, Cowboys, and Raiders get abused for their having these types of criminal players. Seems that the Titans are leading the league with criminals on their roster and are doing little to nothing about it. C,mon, Brandon Jones gets arrested with a gun at the airport and all Fisher can say is that “sometimes we lose track of things”?!!!! Say what you want about Jerry Jones picking up these types of players but the Cowboys have a program in place to try and keep these players out of jail. If they fail, the Cowboys won’t lose much. The Titans knew Pacman was trouble when they drafted him, didn’t have any such program in place, and lost alot of money and #6 overall pick of the draft. Keep up the good work Titans!!!
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