The Apologist
Whatever you do, ladies and gentlemen, don't let a member of the Buffalo Bills, current or former, drive you home.
At 1:42 am Thursday night, in Virginia Beach, VA, future Hall of Famer Bruce Smith was pulled over by a special DUI enforcement unit for speeding. Smith was driving somewhere between 55 (the legal limit) and 75 mph. If he had been going over 75, he would've also been charged with reckless driving.
According to police spokesman Jimmy Barnes (JIMMY Barnes ... I love that), Smith had a positive demeanor, but refused a breathalyzer test and therefore was taken into custody. He was released on bond a few hours later.
According to police spokesman Jimmy Barnes (JIMMY Barnes ... I love that), Smith had a positive demeanor, but refused a breathalyzer test and therefore was taken into custody. He was released on bond a few hours later.
This is not the 45-year-old's first DUI charge. His previous arrests came in 1997 (he was all-pro and went to the Pro Bowl) and 2003 (his final year and the season he set the career sack record). The charges were dismissed in '97 (when he was playing in Buffalo ... we call that 'driving late at night in Buffalo') and was acquitted in '03.
I think we're way beyond the point where a new part of parenting is just to tell kids, "No Billy, you don't have to be punished if you're a professional athlete and they don't have too much evidence. I mean, if you're Michael Vick and you're running an entire living network of the worst kind of animal cruelty imaginable, then you're probably gonna do at least a year. But that's only if you screw up real bad ... Yes, O.J. did kill two people, but he didn't leave too much evidence. Just some DNA. Now go out there and practice your punting!"
p.s. Bruce Smith will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in August. Way to go, Bruce!
I think we're way beyond the point where a new part of parenting is just to tell kids, "No Billy, you don't have to be punished if you're a professional athlete and they don't have too much evidence. I mean, if you're Michael Vick and you're running an entire living network of the worst kind of animal cruelty imaginable, then you're probably gonna do at least a year. But that's only if you screw up real bad ... Yes, O.J. did kill two people, but he didn't leave too much evidence. Just some DNA. Now go out there and practice your punting!"
p.s. Bruce Smith will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in August. Way to go, Bruce!
p.p.s. All kidding aside... Bruce Smith's Sunday breakfast used to be left tackles with a side of guard dashed with fullback and he'd still have enough room left to swallow quarterbacks whole. If the Bills had one player on the defensive line with half the desire of Smith, he'd be my favorite player on defense. My image of him can never be ruined ... never.
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