The Weird, Wacky and Awesome World of the NFL - General Banter thread V2

paulie21 · 10-04-2016 08:28AM

Reports that former Saint player Will Smith has been shot dead in New Orleans

GoldFour4 · 10-04-2016 10:08AM

paulie21 wrote: »

Reports that former Saint player Will Smith has been shot dead in New Orleans

Wow, just reading about it now. He was rear ended by a guy driving a hummer, they exchanged words and the guy in the hummer pulled out a gun and killed him Crazy.

Police statement taken from reddit.

The 34-year-old male victim's vehicle was traveling eastbound on Sophie Wright Place when his vehicle was hit in the rear by a Hummer H2. The collision caused the victim's Mercedes G63 SUV to strike the rear of a Chevrolet Impala who was traveling along with the victim. The male victim and the driver of the Hummer exchanged words at which time the driver of the Hummer produced a handgun and shot the male victim multiple times and his 34-year-old wife twice in the right leg. The male victim was pronounced dead on the scene. The female victim was transported to the local hispotal. The 30-year-old driver of the hummer is in custody and being interviewed by police. The gun used has been recovered.

10-04-2016 12:40PM

malistheman wrote: »

Wow, just reading about it now. He was rear ended by a guy driving a hummer, they exchanged words and the guy in the hummer pulled out a gun and killed him Crazy.

Police statement taken from reddit.

Thats crazy. So sad and pointless!

JaMarcusHustle · 10-04-2016 12:43PM

That's really sad.

Never knew he retired after the Patriots. Always assumed he was still playing somewhere.

JCTO · 10-04-2016 02:14PM

So sad and the showing times of this country. Road rage incidents here are a risk to ones life with people carrying guns these days. Even if you get rear ended you have to be cautious as some people are fooking nuts. So many scumbags out on the road.

RIP Will Smith

Billy86 · 10-04-2016 07:05PM

Not going to bring politics into this other than to say this was to be expected. If it happened to an ex Premiership player in England, I'd be completely shocked, my reaction here was "oh really? Huh."

RIP, didn't know much about him off the field but he was a very good player at his peak.

Billy86 · 10-04-2016 07:08PM

JCTO wrote: »

So sad and the showing times of this country. Road rage incidents here are a risk to ones life with people carrying guns these days. Even if you get rear ended you have to be cautious as some people are fooking nuts. So many scumbags out on the road.

RIP Will Smith

Don't think it shows many signs of the times to be honest, if I recall gum homicides in the US have about halved in the last 20-odd years, thankfully. Still so many more to go, mind which I do agree on; far too much senseless violence all in all.

poldebruin · 10-04-2016 07:33PM

Very sad indeed, and completely needless, however reports are emerging that this may have been premeditated. Crazy if they turn out to be true.

Will Smith had just been having dinner with one of the offucers that shot and killed the suspects father a decade ago. Maybe just a coincidence?

GoldFour4 · 10-04-2016 08:10PM

poldebruin wrote: »

Very sad indeed, and completely needless, however reports are emerging that this may have been premeditated. Crazy if they turn out to be true.

Will Smith had just been having dinner with one of the officers that shot and killed the suspects father a decade ago. Maybe just a coincidence?

If that's enough to justify murder then it would honestly make you wonder if all of Americas positives are worth it against its gun nuts

JCTO · 10-04-2016 08:58PM

Billy86 wrote: »

Don't think it shows many signs of the times to be honest, if I recall gum homicides in the US have about halved in the last 20-odd years, thankfully. Still so many more to go, mind which I do agree on; far too much senseless violence all in all.

Sign of the times of people carrying guns in cars is what I was getting at. Road rage incidents are going up daily also. I know plenty of people carrying guns in their cars here in mass and they have a carry and conceal license. These same idiots get involved in road rage a lot more knowing they have the gun on them.

The problem with these incidents and guns being pulled out they are not reported unless the trigger is actually pulled and someone is shot and or killed. The so called liberal states have a steady growth in those getting licensed and buying guns. Where as 10-20 years ago it would have been more of a southern thing to do.

Hazys · 11-04-2016 06:48PM

Looking good Johnny...going out to the same night club for the 6th night in a row & telling us he's not drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCbG2v1OHE

helimachoptor · 12-04-2016 06:41AM

Gordon has failed another drugs test.

What an idiot

coco0981 · 12-04-2016 09:09AM

helimachoptor wrote: »

Gordon has failed another drugs test.

What an idiot

Wow. That's bound to help his hopes for reinstatement :rolleyes:

madalig12 · 12-04-2016 09:16AM

helimachoptor wrote: »

Gordon has failed another drugs test.

What an idiot

Its just not a strong enough word for how stupid he is.

JaMarcusHustle · 12-04-2016 10:25AM

Gordon is living with Johnny Manziel apparently.

How dumb can you be? That's like living with Aaron Hernandez if you're trying to quit murdering.

TaosHum · 12-04-2016 11:28AM

Stupid rule, but Josh Gordon clearly feels marijuana is more important than football right now.

helimachoptor · 12-04-2016 11:40AM

such a waste of talent, the guy could be a premiere WR talent but is too busy smoking his head off.

Billy86 · 12-04-2016 01:22PM

Amazing, really. Manziel even if he put the head down from day one could easily have wound up another Jimmy Clausen or what have you, but Josh Gordon was an ODB/Julio Jones level freak. If Manziel had panned out, the difference that those two would have made to the Browns (who do have an underrated defense) would have been massive. Throw in Justin Blackmon and Aaron Hernandez, and you're just a RB short of one of the most spectacularly wasted bunch of talents in such a short timeframe the league might have ever seen.

12-04-2016 04:41PM

Its crazy how often the browns remind me to feel sorry for their fanbase.

eagle eye · 12-04-2016 05:39PM

So Von Miller has Johnny Football's back. He said in an interview that if it was up to him that Manziel would already be on the Bronco's roster.

Billy86 · 12-04-2016 06:01PM

eagle eye wrote: »

So Von Miller has Johnny Football's back. He said in an interview that if it was up to him that Manziel would already be on the Bronco's roster.

This is why good players rarely make good managers/coaches.

Paully D · 12-04-2016 07:27PM

eagle eye wrote: »

So Von Miller has Johnny Football's back. He said in an interview that if it was up to him that Manziel would already be on the Bronco's roster.

The PED's must be really going to his head.

HigginsJ · 12-04-2016 08:34PM

eagle eye wrote: »

So Von Miller has Johnny Football's back. He said in an interview that if it was up to him that Manziel would already be on the Bronco's roster.

Aqib Talib came out with the same, says leadership in the locker room would keep him straight.

JaMarcusHustle · 12-04-2016 09:05PM

HigginsJ wrote:

Aqib Talib came out with the same, says leadership in the locker room would keep him straight.

If only leadership could make him a good quarterback, they might be on to something!

Christy42 · 12-04-2016 09:56PM

Paully D wrote: »

The PED's must be really going to his head.

Maybe they just realised he would be a bit of fun and the side obviously doesn't need a quarterback to win the superbowl:P.

Knex* · 12-04-2016 10:05PM

Von Miller loves aggies. He'll go out of his way to praise them, really.

13-04-2016 04:55AM

Hazys wrote: »

Looking good Johnny...going out to the same night club for the 6th night in a row & telling us he's not drunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wCbG2v1OHE

Does it look like he just got out of the driver's seat of that car, putting keys in his pocket?

Knex* · 13-04-2016 08:10AM

Saw the real pictures of JPP's hand after the fireworks last year over on Reddit. Genuinely don't know how it wasn't amputated.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NYGiants/comments/4eiska/gruesome_pics_of_jpps_hand_right_after_the/

The link above is fine, but if you click on the embedded imgur link inside the reddit post, then be warned its damn graphic. NSFW stuff.

The link below, they talk about him getting a new custom glove. They also mentioned the one he had last year, and why he ended up going with the club.

http://nypost.com/2016/04/12/jpp-gets-custom-glove-after-gnarly-protruding-bone-episode/

At halftime, the glove was off and the massive wrap was back on. Now we know why. In the first half, while wearing the glove, a bone in Pierre-Paul’s right middle finger tore through the skin, according to a story posted Tuesday on SI.com. Doctors had to trim the bone and stitch the finger back up.

My respect for that man has now gone through the roof, to be honest.

adrian522 · 13-04-2016 02:48PM

Good article here by AJ Tarpley and his decision to retire from the sport aged 23.

http://mmqb.si.com/mmqb/2016/04/12/nfl-aj-tarpley-buffalo-bills-retirement

helimachoptor · 13-04-2016 03:14PM

that is a good read

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