According to the Dallas Morning News, Michael Irvin had a gun pulled on him by a motorist traveling in the car next to him Monday night, but the gunman let the former Cowboy receiver go after realizing who he was.
The Pro Football Hall of Fame member was not injured. He told police he stopped at a red light in the 18200 block of Marsh Lane, near the Bush Turnpike, about 9:30 p.m., when the driver of the vehicle next to him rolled down his window, the police report said.
Irvin put down his window because he thought someone wanted to talk to him and saw the passenger in the other vehicle raise a gun, the report said. Irvin said in an interview Tuesday night that he feared the men had planned to rob him and changed their minds when they saw who he was.
“The passenger pulled out a semiautomatic and I knew what time it was,” Irvin said. “But he said ‘Oh, that’s Michael Irvin, with the Dallas Cowboys.’”
Despite being scared, Irvin said he tried to keep the conversation going.
“So we started talking about the Cowboys and everything,” he said. “Then they got back on the highway.”
“I tell you what, I’m glad he was a Cowboy fan,” Irvin said.
Let me get this straight. A man pulls a gun on Irvin, realizes who he is, decides not to rob/shoot/kill him and Irvin proceeds to talk Cowboy fever with the guy? You would have seen smoke from my tires as soon as the man put the gun down.
But I guess that’s the difference between Michael Irvin and I; he has the decency to talk a little football after a man tries to rob him at gunpoint. And that’s why I’ll never be a Cowboy…
