Friday, December 16, 2011

Can The Season Get Worse?

You already have heard by now: Sam Hurd, WR for the Chicago Bears was caught in an undercover sting negotiating to buy 5-7 kilo of cocaine and 100 pounds of weed every week, intending to set up a distribution ring in the Chicago area.
(Needless to say, he's now an Ex-Chicago Bear, having been waived earlier today.)

Whatever the numbers are, that's a lot of drugs. I suspect he'll be going away for a very loooong time.

What gets me:
This dude was making over $1 million a year. He was already rich, and his future after football was most likely going to be comfortable.
Why the hell would he want to throw it all away?

The latest I've read is his attorneys denying reports of a 'double-digit' list of present NFL players he was distributing to.
There's a list. There's not a list....
I don't know if there is a list or not, but if there is, I hope it contains all Packers players. (Preferably, from the Offense first-string plus Clay Matthews. I can dream can't I?)

6 comments:

John said...

I wonder how many aspiring and successful athletes each year sell their future for the allure of "easy money" in the drug world?
I know of promising High School and College athletes who lost their chance at the next level, and it doesn't take much to come up with an extensive list of Pro's who have ended careers because of involvement with drugs.
I don't think there is a right answer, but when society encourages casual drug use and the Government establishes a prohibition we recreate the climate of the early 20th Century.

Mr. D said...

I don't know if there is a list or not, but if there is, I hope it contains all Packers players. (Preferably, from the Offense first-string plus Clay Matthews. I can dream can't I?)

Your dreams seem to be at some variance from mine. ;)

Night Writer said...

I'm betting his best clients were the Bears' O-line. They all come off the ball like they were doing bongs in the huddle. It also explains their giggling each time Cutler got sacked.

Brian said...

For some people, money solves their problems. For others, it just makes them more expensive.

Gino said...

Brian: i wish i had more expensive problems...

Bike Bubba said...

You know, I don't know too many people earning seven figures a year, but I know people earning more than I do aplenty, and most of them are far less financially secure than I am. It's about character, not about how much is in your paycheck.

My hope is that Hurd had plenty of clients in the Chicago political machine, and I think it's more likely than either Gino's hope or NW's hypothesis.