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Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Pacman Jones gobbles trouble
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Terence Moore
If you’re among the young athletes out there with more than a little talent and with the propensity for resembling a knucklehead, please become the anti-Pacman Jones.
More specifically, please seek to remain your version of Adam Jones (Pacman’s real name, by the way), which means don’t devolve into an out-of-control character instead of yourself, which means please act like you have some sense.
Just trying to help.
Not to bore you with all the details, because you likely already know the ongoing silliness of Jones, the former Westlake High School football star turned NFL standout for a moment. That said, since joining the Tennessee Titans in 2005, Jones has spent more time in courtrooms than locker rooms. You name it, and Jones probably has been accused of it, or he actually has done it.
As a result, Jones was suspended for all of last season by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell. Later, with help from the players’ association, he tried to return early by claiming he’d learned his lesson, but Goodell wasn’t convinced.
Good thing. Now Jones is involved in another mess. According to officials of the Fulton County Magistrate Court, Jones allegedly punched a woman in an Atlanta strip club. I mean, after everything Jones has encountered, why is he even putting himself in these situations?
No, he doesn’t get it. Hopefully, he is creating others that will.
Well, hopefully.
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