Is There Hope For Gordon? Maybe 4-8 Weeks?

[miktoxic]

michael irvin and lawrence taylor somehow managed to get through their career without risking banishment........

reminds me of when i was in the army right before they started piss testing. those were the days.

gordon needs to find a body double who is on the straight and narrow to piss for him.

isn't eddie murphy available to do one of his bowfinger make-ups?

[Ibleedbrown]

I remember when the baseball player Josh Hamilton got picked up by the Reds in the rule 5 draft. If you didn't follow it a few years back, 5 tool player and all the talent in the world, but snorted it all up his nose and never made it the majors.

So the Reds took a shot on him, and l guess the fear at the time was that with him finally hitting the majors and making extra dough, he might relapse. So they really did assign someone to him, l believe a relative of the manager, to keep him on the straight and narrow.

I guess it worked, but there seemed to be a negative side effect from it. There were rumblings about how other players felt like he got preferential treatment, or maybe he was a bad clubhouse guy, or something. It's the kind of shit no one is ever clear about in the media, but he was traded after the season.

[Tour2ma]

And went on to become a star with the Rangers... and now the Angels. Both teams took to celebrating with ginger ale in support of him. So it doesn't sound like there were too many issues.

Josh H. still battles his demons and he always will. He got smashed a few years ago and reportedly was asking to buy some coke. And a couple years ago there was another time he fell off the proverbial wagon. To his credit he self-reported both incidents to the league and apologized to his teammates.

[Ibleedbrown]

Oh yeah, he definitely went on to some success in MLB. It was the only example l could think of where a team assigned someone to keep him on the up and up though, and there seemed to be sone wierdness surrounding it.

It was a few years after the trade when talk radio was full of the "what were we thinking?!?" crowd when Marty Brennaman implied the stuff about preferential treatment.

[Tour2ma]

Maybe Marty was rationalizing???

I can remember when the Browns hired Calvin Hill as a team councilor after he retired as RB. Was around the time when Chip Banks' issues with coke came to light IIRC.

Looks like there's going to be a movie of Josh's life.

[miktoxic]

@tour2ma said:

Looks like there's going to be a movie of Josh's life.

is it a sequel to the dud 'HOW HIGH'?

[DownSouthKC]

@miktoxic said:

is it a sequel to the dud 'HOW HIGH'?

Listen, popcorn playa, How High was no dud.

[DownSouthKC]

How is this not settled yet? Is there something I'm missing?

[cambridgeho]

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2014/07/03/josh-gordon-hearing-has-been-set-for-late-july/

WE will see.

[Tour2ma]

@miktoxic said:

is it a sequel to the dud 'HOW HIGH'?

LOL... my bad... the Josh I was referring to (poorly) was Hamilton.

[Kosar_For_President]

Ok this is just a rumor so don't act like a bunch of bitches. My friend on a UNC basketball forum said he has a source.

So...Gordon just "reportedly" was arrested for DUI last night in Raleigh, NC

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Confirmed:

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/2014/07/05/josh-gordon-arrested-for-dwi/12248293/

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Well, kiss his ass goodbye.

[miktoxic]

can some say justin blackmon?

gone.

[D Bone]

Good riddance to the 1 year wonder. Too bad Banner couldn't dump him when he tried. He's a loser and always will be.

[TypicalBrowns]

He just got a DUI

Unbelievable. Cursed.

[miktoxic]

so much for everyone holding onto 'hope'.

[LBC mike]

I said he was going to be a gonner. dude, can't quite smoking pot.

[letsgojackets]

Dummy.

[Canton Mike]

That's it. Keep in mind that his fantastic year in 2013 only netted us 4 wins. Is he worth it?

My answer......HELL NO!!! Send this dumbass to Joe Gilliam land, living somewhere under a bridge.

Mike