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Open Letter *from* Josh Gordon

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  • ...thinking about all this Josh Gordon stuff got me to thinking about Ricky Williams. If Josh didn't care he'd be Ricky Williams. He's fucking trying, please remove your death-grip from his reproductive organ.

    The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain- "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog." -Mark Twain-

  • You

    1) sound like you're about 16. Especially with all the "live your life" cliche bullshit.

    2) you might have sexual identity issues. I'd go see a school counselor in between classes or at lunch.

  • PoeticGP PoeticG

    Live your life. You only live once. If you live the way people TELL you to live your life, you're living their life, and I feel sorry for you.

    @poeticg said:

    Live your life. You only live once. If you live the way people TELL you to live your life, you're living their life, and I feel sorry for you.

    He can live however the fuck he wants at home unemployed. The rest of society can't live some hippie free spirit fantasy on someone else's dime.

    Oh and you sound like a dumb shit little kid. You keep reaching for the stars, Corky.

  • Z Zombo

    I'm sure he didn't write it, but it certainly hits home on people pre-judging him and the obstacles he has faced/caused.

    And explains the suspensions.

    He sure passed a lot of tests.

    How does someone not let him know that the testing continues after the regular season? Browns? Agent? Mgr? Maybe he needs to get married, his wife would know every detail of any suspension, and every dollar.

    Zombo

    Zombo said:

    I'm sure he didn't write it, but it certainly hits home on people pre-judging him and the obstacles he has faced/caused.

    And explains the suspensions.

    He sure passed a lot of tests.

    How does someone not let him know that the testing continues after the regular season? Browns? Agent? Mgr? Maybe he needs to get married, his wife would know every detail of any suspension, and every dollar.

    Zombo

    Did the season end with week 17, or the SB?

    @jcam222 said:

    Definitely ghost written.i hate to sound harsh but his "life story" is a match with 100 other NFL guys who don't keep "making mistakes". At this point sad to say if he is truly not an addict or set medicating an underlying medical condition he is a pure dumbass. I personally believe he is firmly in denial but that's just my opinion. I can tell you that when first confronted with friends calling out my addiction I answered with very similar sentiments as Josh. I SINCERELY believed I wasn't an addict for years. I of course was wrong. Thank god I finally figured out it was not my past, not my friends, not my bad conscious decisions, not a few mistakes but a debilitating disease. But hey that's my story perhaps his is different.

    Hard to say.

    @oldbrownsfan said:

    That was an interesting read. The one red flag I saw was when JG said he tested positive for pot from second hand smoke. That is not impossible but it is unlikely.

    Totally possible, as Tour said- the former threshold for pot was essentially trace levels. And- if Gordon wasn't lying- I'll damn guarantee you his alcohol level after 4 hours would have been at the pass level for DUI- easy.

    @poeticg said:

    ...thinking about all this Josh Gordon stuff got me to thinking about Ricky Williams. If Josh didn't care he'd be Ricky Williams. He's fucking trying, please remove your death-grip from his reproductive organ.

    As soon as you remove yours from Trent Richardson.

    OK- the sob story has softened my stance somewhat. It sure looks like the NFL had a spy on him- and was targeting him- knowing exactly when to test him- at a most vulnerable moment. You just accidentally knew he was on a charter flight to Vegas? Really? It's on the same level why police cant hang around bars at 2 AM and randomly pull cars over- it's called "entrapment".

    OTOH, though I don't know you Josh- and you've owned up to your mistakes- just how many do you think the NFL in general, and the Browns in particular are going to let you make? Quote "The Farmer" - Talk is cheap.

    Maybe, possibly, assuming you're back to selling cars for a year- the Brown will now retain your rights- it costs them nothing to do so. But I wouldn't count on it.

  • Let me get this straight. You (JG) have millions of dollars and a very forgiving fan base on the line and yet you don't know by now the rules you have agreed to play by concerning any and all substances?

    OK. I buy that. Got any land in Florida to sell me too? or the Brooklyn bridge maybe?

    Please.

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  • i love the assholes coming out to support gordon while he has consistently fucked their 'supposed' fave football team.

    weed? really? who cares? not me. but the people that sign his big money checks do and they said if you keep doing whatever the fuck you're doing we're not going to sign those checks anymore. so he basically said fuck you. and as PoG has said in his always 'right on topic' bullshit everybody leave him alone.

    i'll leave him alone. now get the fuck off the brown's roster and go have yourself a great time. and then in six months when your possee drains your bank account and manziel is nowhere to be found you're sitting on a porch with justin blackmon sippin that grape drank and puffin on weed............looking around at who you can rob to get some more drank.

    fucking loser.

    well maybe he still has that car salesman deal?

  • Brady's Ball Sack said:

    Well, do what Browns fans and the team historically does, cut him...

    Fans like you can say fuck him, fuck Cameron if he wants more money, fuck everybody....

    I guarantee Gordon will recover, he will go to another team, become an all pro, and probably have a shot at a championship.

    And the Browns will still be in the basement.

    Sometimes, you have to ride out the storm.

    hey george, i'm one of the few here that think you make valid points......except this time you're wrong.

    ride a 3 year storm out? try that in buffalo and see where that gets you.

    you'll either quit or get fired.

  • this is america. we don't have to do shit if we don't want to.

    if he were on the bills and cost you 3 seasons you'd be the first to say cut him.

  • This is all my brother's fault. He's a Gulfstream IV pilot for one of those private aircraft companies. I'd bet he did this. He likes the Broncos. 😛

  • Brady's Ball Sack said:

    Look at Zombo,

    Aww, someone has a crush on me. And Valentine's day is coming up!

    Zombo

  • I don't know if NFL teams have counselors on staff but if they don't to me it seems it would be a good investment. Just as much as the weight room is the mental and psychological part of football players. Many have some deep seated problems and backgrounds. I would think with a club spending millions of dollars on these players investing in the psychological need of the players makes sense. I know counseling is not a cure all but it does help in a lot of cases.

    It wouldn't have hurt in Gordon's case for some counseling in some of the areas he talks about in his letter.

  • Brady's Ball Sack said:

    Everyone forgets that these guys are just kids, and a product of their environment. It doesn't change overnight.

    That's where the vet leadership should be helping, instead, they are feeding this guy alcohol on a plane to Vegas, knowing full well it violates his "parole".

    So Gordon, if this story is true, isn't the only one responsible for his suspension.

    Good point. I like the idea of veteran players stepping up and mentoring the younger ones as much as anything.

  • You'd think Haden, who was on the flight, might have had some input.

  • I don't believe for one second that gordon actually wrote that

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...
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  • His message to me boils down to that he's stupid and irresponsible and blames everyone else for his failures except himself

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • I wasn't potentially making tens of millions of dollars at his age. If I was you can be damn sure I'd either be clean or know how to beat a drug test. Mma fighters know how to beat drug tests how come gordon doesn't?

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • Bro the patriots are known cheaters and you're worried about the browns' character issues?

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • Brady's Ball Sack said:

    That's not what I read. I read that he is a stupid and irresponsible kid with money, who has no mentor in his life. And, his teammates who should understand the position this kid comes from were even more irresponsible and stupid..

    That's not what you read?

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...

  • Brady's Ball Sack said:

    I'm a Bills fan.

    Zombo Loses when it comes to thinking, you know it when he plays the moderator card, hence, my new nick name...

    No, I don't think the Pats don't have Character issues. I think they win because they pick up discarded players like Gordon and win another ring.

    You are a Bills fan posting on a Browns forum. You should always remember that and roll with the punches. You make some good points but when you counter and attack the Browns you are not winning anyone over here.

  • So his childhood sucks. OK, got it. But if it's still an excuse, he's still that child.

    Is it hard? Yep. But that doesn't mean he gets a free pass. Adulthood is ACTING AS IF.

    He'll only be out of the hood when he puts aside the things he used to do to cope with the hood.

    The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you. "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." Paul Brown
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