Jim Brown: Stallworth might have smoked pot before accident
Browns’ legendary running back Jim Brown says that Donte Stallworth might have smoked pot the evening/morning of his car accident that took the life of Miami pedestrian Mario Reyes.
Hall of Fame running back Jim Brown, who remains a senior member of Cleveland Browns management, suggested on Friday that Browns receiver Donte’ Stallworth(notes) was smoking marijuana on the evening/morning of the accident that claimed the life of 59-year-old Mario Reyes, according to Profootballtalk.com.
Brown made his remarks during an appearance on 790 The Ticket’s The Dan LeBatard Show.
“This situation is a tragedy all around, but what was involved was alcohol and marijuana,” Brown said.
“On one hand, DUI is a very serious thing in America. Marijuana of course is against all the rules.”
Brown explained that he has some “inside information that says that that was also a part of what was detected,” presumably in the blood test imposed on Stallworth. Brown said he’s not “100 percent sure” that this is true, but Brown said he spoke with a ” very reliable source” who shared this information, according to the report.
It Brown isn’t 100% sure that any of this is true, then he shouldn’t be saying it. And even if it is true, Stallworth has already cut a deal to only serve less than 30 days in jail so this changes nothing.
I have a hard time believing that if pot were involved, that that information would have been released along with Stallworth’s blood alcohol level. I’d take this report with a major grain of salt and I question Brown’s motives here.
Michal Vick hosted illegal dogfights, bankrolled gambling for dogfights and he horridly drowned, electrocuted and hung pit bulls and then beat the poor dogs with baseball bats while they hung there. He served 18 months in federal prison and two more on house arrest. He flipped the middle finger to his disgruntled fans and admitted tanked on games that he decided they could not make a comeback on. He had marijuana hidden in the bottom of a water bottle at a Miami airport and surrounded himself with unsavory characters, two which have criminal records for drug trafficking. In a settlement, he paid a woman off who claimed he gave her a sexually transmitted disease. Then just 2 years after being convicted he is reinstated to the NFL.
Dante Stallworth pled guilty to DUI which had resulted in him killing a pedestrian. After spending only 30 days in jail he will be under house arrest for two more years. He was suspended for the season.
Pete Rose was banned from baseball for life for betting on baseball. He is the All-Time Major League leader in hits, has thee World Series rings, owns three batting titles, one Most Valuable Player award, two Gold Gloves, Rookie of the Year award, has a 44 game hitting streak only surpassed by two other players, 17 All Star appearances and played an unequaled five different positions. He also served with our nations military.
Does anyone have any idea at all how this can be fair? Does this scream out anything to you? I don’t understand this at all.
This is one of those emails I think should make it around the country and hopefully the powers to be would see it and sometime in the future explain it to me.