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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 12:16 pm
Funny how these guys make more in a couple weeks than I make in an entire year. But when the end of the night comes around, I can always seem to afford a cab ride home. Then again, I’m not making it rain in the club so I usually have some pocket change left over.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 12:30 pm
It only takes one stupid mistake to cost you millions in the NFL.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
Are Nashville and Cinncinatti sister cities? You’ve “Pacman” swing on poles, Young swining with half naked men, and Javon getting his “groove on” on the streets of Nashville!?
Can’t wait to see the pictures of Bud and Jeff!
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:08 pm
wow.
didn’t see that one coming.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
The Titans should cut him. Show some consistency.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
time for the league to put a DUI policy in place…. it’s embarassing that guys making millions can’t hire a driver - or at the very least call a cab if they’re boozing… maybe if the league put a mandatory 4game suspension penalty on DUI’s this crap would drop off.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Kearse came to University of Delaware last year with Lito for a Frat Party and got WASTED! (that btw is where I go to school…Go FLACCO!!!)
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June 22nd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
The NFL need to make a car service for NFL players who are drunk and unable to drive. It’s going to be a matter of time until some NFL players kills someone. They need to stop it before it happens.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:12 pm
Well the way things have turned out for jared allen I’d say this is going to be a probowl year for the freak!
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:47 pm
GeauxSaints~ Leonard Little did kill someone. This has been going on for years: Bruce Smith, Steve Foley, Chris Henry, Koren Robinson, Brian Williams, Odell Thurman, BJ Sams (twice), Khalif Barnes, Marcus Coleman, Antonio Brant, Deltha O’Neal, Keith Traylor, Jared Allen, David Boston, Carl Eller, Lofa Tatupu, Adrian Awasom, Daren Stone, Cato June, Ken Stabler, Cedric Benson (one by land, one by sea), Tank Johnson, Chris Chambers, Troy Hambrick, Reuben Droughns, Steve McNair, Dominic Rhodes, Chris McAlister, Sean Taylor (acquitted), Jason Shirley (rookie with 2 DUIs), Jerramy Stevens (soon to be convicted rapist), Jim McMahon, Warren Moon. And most of these are within the past two years. It’s been widely overlooked. If Goodell wants to lower these numbers, he needs to have a one strike policy where the first incident is a 4 game suspension and the second is a 12 month suspension. By now, should we be shocked?
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June 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
GeauxSaints12 - The league does have a service in place. Players can call a number and have two guys come out in one car. One guy jumps in the player’s car and drives it to the player’s house, and the other guy follows behind. Player wakes up the next morning with his car in his driveway and no DUI on his record. Shame more players don’t take advantage of the service, for whatever reason.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 4:37 pm
“Those without sin can cast the first stone.”
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June 22nd, 2008 at 4:50 pm
@GeauxSaints12: Leonard Little welcomes you to read his biography.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Must have been the scheme, right Jevon? Can’t blame this one on J.J.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 5:13 pm
GeauxSaints12 - The league does have such a service. Players can call a number and have a car sent out with two guys. One of the guys jumps in the player’s car and drives it and the player home. The player wakes up the next morning with his car in his driveway and no DUI on his record. Too bad some players still don’t use it.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 5:46 pm
Add Coach Ditka to the list.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 6:10 pm
To sfitz76:
Since I’ve never sinned…think I’ll cast my first stone right between the eyes of Roger Goodell…maybe it’ll knock some sense into him…hopefully it will ricochet off and catch Jerry Jones in the nuts.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Freak has been on a long slow decline since he first left the Titans. He never really earned his money in Philly. Now this…. Don’t know if it makes me SADD or MADD…
F2B
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:23 pm
All I know is that if I lived in Tennessee, I’d be drinking too.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 7:49 pm
I find this interesting as someone who is trying to get back to whence they once belonged, that is a play maker in the NFL.
A few years ago, more like 20-30 years back, this was more or less accepted among the public. These warriors of the gridiron deserve to kick a few back, play with a few ladies (other than their wives), because damn it is a tough frig’n game and life.
Since then, life and expectations have changed. It seems the “expected” maturity of these players has increased with each dollar that is spent on them. Funny thing is, it seems the exact opposite is occurring.
Just another career spiraling down the vast wasteland of what might have been.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
So, since the beginning of 2005 the Titans are now up to 12 different players arrested, 17 total incidents. And then, of course, there was Haynesworth’s infamous head-stomping incident. It has long since past time for Jeff Fisher and the Titans organization to receive some of the criticism and ridicule which has been directed at Marvin Lewis and the Bengals. (Pacman seemed to get plenty criticism as an individual, but it seems like the team as a whole and Fisher as a coach have gotten a bit of a pass. Exhibit A, not one comment here so far criticises Fisher for embracing unsavory characters.)
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Man, glad this is not a Raider or you would use it for your next 13 threads……How bout a new thread???? How the Titans screw up all the talent they have had? I mean, everybody loved George and Steve, but they never won ish!!! Or, how bout Jeff Fisher is the most overrated coach in the NFL? The “FREAK” has been done for years now, can’t stay healthy and is a non factor, who cares? BORING
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June 22nd, 2008 at 8:17 pm
Add Coach Gruden to that list.
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June 22nd, 2008 at 10:58 pm
The way I hear it, Freak’s been doing the Party Boy Thing the last four years in Philly. That’s cool…, it’s his career. But it’s passing him by as we speak. You can’t have it both ways. He ain’t gettin’ younger. One day he’s gonna meet the rookie in camp that’s about to take his job…
What he looks back on when it’s over is up to him.
F2B
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June 22nd, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Interesting that everyone is so quick to jump on NFL players and their perceived lack of respect for the law. DUIs are an alarming and unforgivable crime, but sadly, they are not uncommon.
A 2004-2006 Department of Health study into rates of drunk driving revealed that 15.1% of Americans drive drunk at least once per year.
http://oas.samhsa.gov/2k8/stateDUI/stateDUI.cfm
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.
Rates of DUIs among NFL players doesn’t seem quite so striking, does it?
Let’s not be so quick to judge a subset of Americans for what is really a national problem.
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