This must be a slow day on the board, because I can't believe that nobody has posted this yet.
And I'll be the first to say it...our kicker is an idiot.
NFL will review incident involving Steelers' Reed, police Monday, October 19, 2009 By Dan Gigler and Ed Bouchette, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Jeff Reed
The NFL said today it is investigating an incident last night in which Steelers kicker Jeff Reed was wrestled to the ground by Pittsburgh police officers, placed under arrest and given multiple citations after a drunken confrontation outside a North Shore bar.
Mr. Reed's Atlanta-based agent, Don Henderson, said today, however, that his client was wrongfully detained.
"We're contesting it," Mr. Henderson said. "It involved somebody else on the team, he got out to try to help and basically got attacked by the police. He was with his parents. He got out and tried to help and evidently they didn't want to hear that. We're definitely going to contest it. It was somebody else trying to do something and Jeff ended up getting slammed in the middle."
Steelers spokesman Dave Lockett said today that the team "is still gathering details and will not have a comment until we have more information." The NFL is also investigating the incident, according to a league spokesman.
According to police, the incident occurred around 9 p.m. outside McFadden's bar, several hours after Reed kicked two field goals in the Steelers 27-14 win over Cleveland at Heinz Field.
Police had been dispatched to the 200 block of North Shore Drive for an unrelated incident when the responding officers noticed a man, later identified as Steelers tight end Matthew Spaeth, urinating outside a large, white SUV parked nearby.
The officer went to Mr. Spaeth to issue a citation when, police said, the Steelers kicker got out of the vehicle.
He refused to get back into the vehicle, which was driven by his father. Instead, Mr. Reed put up his fists and got "into a fighters stance," according to a police affidavit.
The confrontation was swift as one officer put Mr. Reed in an arm lock while a second officer forced him to the ground.
Mr. Reed continued to resist as the officers struggled to get his hands behind him to be put in cuffs, the affidavit said.
Police said the kicker smelled strongly of alcohol and he appeared to be intoxicated.
After the suspect calmed down, police issued a citation for simple assault, resisting arrest, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. He was released at the scene to his father's custody, police said, and will receive a summons in the mail that will order him to court to face the charges.
It is the second time this year that Mr. Reed has had a run-in with police. Earlier this year in Westmoreland County, he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after police said he damaged a paper towel dispenser and harassed employees at a Sheetz convenience store in New Alexandria in February.
In that incident, witnesses told police that Mr. Reed, 30, went into the store bathroom and then became infuriated that there were no towels in the dispenser. He began banging on the dispenser and hurling profanities at employees, even after leaving the store.
Mr. Reed received a summary citation and was fined $543.50, which includes $210 in restitution to the store.
Wet my pants and then took them off. Not so bad if I hadn't been in a drunk tank w/ other people watching. This included fellow O.U. students and a very scary looking guy in an orange jumpsuit w/ ankle cuffs.
Lucky for me it got me sent home early and I had no memory of it.
Remember, college students. Heck anybody. Do NOT walk home drunk ALONE. Always in a group.
Quote: The NFL said today it is investigating an incident last night in which Steelers kicker Jeff Reed was wrestled to the ground by Pittsburgh police officers
Did the officers get penalized 15 yards for roughing the kicker?
I'll go with an easy one, I fell through the ceiling of my college attic while hiding from the cops after they raided our apartment. The cops were long gone when I fell...because I fell asleep/passed out while laying across the beems. I still have scars on my legs to this day. Ugh.
“...Iguodala to Curry, back to Iguodala, up for the layup! Oh! Blocked by James! LeBron James with the rejection!”
christy, I for one feel I've lost the right to make fun of your team until we can be true rivals again. I hate that I feel that way because I still cringe when I see fans wearing black and yellow but my team needs to show up consistantly before I can talk any smack.
Quote: Wet my pants and then took them off. Not so bad if I hadn't been in a drunk tank w/ other people watching. This included fellow O.U. students and a very scary looking guy in an orange jumpsuit w/ ankle cuffs.
Lucky for me it got me sent home early and I had no memory of it.
Remember, college students. Heck anybody. Do NOT walk home drunk ALONE. Always in a group.
That's the truth. My friend had an unfortunate incident on Friday night walking to our friend's house to go to sleep. He was walking back and the cops just stopped him and cuffed him. I'm not surprised because my friend's new place is a solid 20 minutes to a half hour on foot from the bars.
Funny part was the bars were the first place he went to the next day to meet up with us for the Homecoming festivities. Man I wish I could re-live this past weekend.
Quote: christy, I for one feel I've lost the right to make fun of your team until we can be true rivals again. I hate that I feel that way because I still cringe when I see fans wearing black and yellow but my team needs to show up consistantly before I can talk any smack.
Were you drunk when you posted this? Then this might be your dumbest thing.
Quote: christy, I for one feel I've lost the right to make fun of your team until we can be true rivals again. I hate that I feel that way because I still cringe when I see fans wearing black and yellow but my team needs to show up consistantly before I can talk any smack.
Were you drunk when you posted this? Then this might be your dumbest thing.
Quote: What's the dumbest thing you've ever done while intoxicated?
I'd be too embarassed/ashamed to tell you all the answer to that question. Nothing deviant or sexual mind you, just something I don't like to think about. It was when I was about 22.... and did I ever deserve an ass-beating for it. I didn't get one, but I deserved it.
Quote: My friend had an unfortunate incident on Friday night walking to our friend's house to go to sleep. He was walking back and the cops just stopped him and cuffed him. I'm not surprised because my friend's new place is a solid 20 minutes to a half hour on foot from the bars.
I got cuffed about a half a block from my place. So close, yet so far away . . .
What's with this thread? Where are your stories, people?
Let's see... New Orleans 2001. 3 hours all-you-can-drink Hand Grenades. I may have passed out in the gutter in the French Quarter after slipping off the curb and spraining my ankle only to be awakened by a cop. The good part is my ankle didn't start hurting (or swelling) until well into Sunday evening when I finally sobered up.
Quote: My friend had an unfortunate incident on Friday night walking to our friend's house to go to sleep. He was walking back and the cops just stopped him and cuffed him. I'm not surprised because my friend's new place is a solid 20 minutes to a half hour on foot from the bars.
I got cuffed about a half a block from my place. So close, yet so far away . . .
What's with this thread? Where are your stories, people?
SAME! Last Halloween. I could literally see my apartment complex.
You want stories? Here's some stories from the weekend, names not given out.
On the ride home, my friends passed time by calling people on the way home on speaker phone to hear about the rest of their weekends. Here are some of the topics mentioned...
-2 friends woke up at Southeast Regional Correctional Facility in Nelsonville. Friend 1, who was given a phone call, got ahold of his dad and told him that some jackass cops are arresting him for some BS reason...to which his phone call was shortened.....after the OUPD hungup his call.
-Someone enjoyed after hours with some fellow alum by working on correcting his slice with a new driver around 3am.
-We rocked some classic Ohio Alumni crew neck sweatshirts with vintage white polos underneath (mine was blue because I couldn't find anything with a white collar in my drawer). Combovers hairstyles were mandatory as well.
-Rumor is someone lost his cell phone and wallet a couple hours after arriving on Thursday
-Someone thought it'd be funny to bring a guitar hero guitar out and play it at the bar while wearing a speed racer racing jacket....needless to say he lost both.
-Someone and others apparently broke the shot record, previously held by himself, with 309 shots purchased. Friend was taking care of business barkeeping so I'm sure that was a sight to see, unfortunately I was at another bar by that point.
-Someone puked in the bathroom at a McDonalds in Akron on the way home Sunday.
-Someone played about 7 holes of golf with 1 club, a driver.
-Someone walked in on someone doin work
-Ohio State lost....which my friend wasn't aware of till he checked his phone Sunday morning, although he watched the game all day saturday.
-.......thanks for putting slot machines (ATM's) in and all around every single uptown establishment, I win every single time. (Everyone I've talked to shares this same sentiment)
Man, I wish my friends didn't have to leave. Easily one of the top 3 weekends I've had in this town.
Quote: Anyways I'm pleading the 5th on this one.. My roomate recently was so drunk he got up in the middle of the night and peed in his dresser
I remember back in highschool, a friend of mine stayed the night after getting hammered off some 151. He has a bathroom right off of his bedroom at home, so in his drunken state at my house, he got up in the middle of the night and walked to where he thought was his bathroom.
It was my dresser. Luckily I saw it before it started to flow. Had no interest in seeing his ..., but didn't want to clean the ... off my dresser either.
This isn't the dumbest thing I've ever done but... ... I once took a wrong turn in my apartment after getting up to use the bathroom, after sleeping a couple hours after being drunk... didn't know where I was, thought I was going to the can but did a header down a flight of stairs. 12 steps (no pun intended)
Carpet burns on my legs and back, but otherwise unhurt. True event.
I sat here for like 5 minutes thinking of all the dumbest things I've done while drunk and what's funny is that now, years later, not so much of it seems so funny when I think about it. Not to be such a turd in the punch bowl but there's a reason I haven't had a drink or drug in almost 15 years. Most of the "funny" stuff was kind of scary and/or sad.
I've woken up with all sorts of girls, girl friends' friends, a friend's wife, I've woken up in bushes and parks, a bunch of times in cars, in the back of a stranger's truck a full state away, on beaches, on a roof, on a crapper in an airport bathroom, I've missed flights, got turned away from boarding a flight home from Colorado, I've started fights, jumped in on other people's fights, stolen things, borrowed things, lost BIG things, gone to the tank a few times, the real pokey once, went to an exam in college with no shoes and vomit all over my shirt, climbed a 10 story crane in the middle of the night in the winter, filled a roommate's convertible mustang up to the top of the doors with can's and bottles on "recycling day", got a very easily provoked and slightly "slow" cousin to engage in a game of smash-em-up derby in a parking lot between me in my $400 Delta 88 and him in his mother's 1 year old Saab, threw a full beer bottle at the one guy that probably more than any person before or since had the power to make my music career and was actually trying to help me, and not so unlike the movie Pulp Fiction I had my rights to knowingly return to a certain city "revoked" by a person I never ever ever EVER would have crossed sober for being just an unbelievably stupid drunk. And I really do have booze to thank for all of it. They say things get lighter and funnier looking back as you get older but it's just about the opposite for me. I am really just lucky that I didn't kill someone.
"Team Chemistry No Match for Team Biology" (Onion Sports Headline)
Summer of 1999 a lads holiday in Ayia Nappa Cyprus.
We were in a bar called the British Bulldog and they had a Big Brass Bell above the bar area that they would ring when receiving tips. One of my mates was trying to kick the bell which was a good 7 feet off the ground. After a number of obviously unsuccessful attempts, another mate tried to header the bell and missed. Me being quite tall and drunk thought it was my moment to shine, so I took a run at it jumped and planted a delightful header catching the bell square on my forehead ............. it was only then that we realised the bell was actually fixed into position
Bell met forehead at speed and bell won all I remember was the sensation of my face suddenly becoming warm with my own blood..... a crazy hospital ride on the back of the bar owners moped later and I was being stitched up at the hospital.
The last few days of my holiday were spent in pain, very swollen and looking like a pint of guinness .... my stunning tan was offset by my head being wrapped in a huge turban like bandage, hence the Guinness comparison!
I went back to the bar in 2005 when my friend got married in Cyprus. The same guy who took me on the moped still owned the bar ..... when I pointed to the bell and said you dont recognise me do you? the guy ran his thumb over my forehead to check for the scar!!! alot of laughs and drinks followed!
Really, in all my years of drinking, I've never done anything dumb...Now the people around me who get blamed for things happening thats a diffrent story.
But mine did have something to do with a dust buster, duct tape, bag of ice & a bottle of strawberry boones farm.
Being a Navy Vet and Recovering Alcoholic, I could fill volumes of books, the most stupid thing I did, hands down was drive a car, but I'll never be able to explain how I got one pant leg off over my work boot, it must have been quite the effort because I gave up on the other leg
Well 3 of us were intoxicated. Our 1 friend a bit more than us . We decided what could be more fun than to take him to Walmart at 3am and then hide from him while he wanders the store looking for us.
It didn't go so well cause he went straight for the toy isle where he puked his guts up then layed down in it and went to sleep.
After trying to wake him, we eventually had to carry a vomit soaked friend out of the store. We put him in the bed of the truck. Drove him home, put him on the bench by his front door and left.
We don't have to agree with each other, to respect each others opinion.
Might as well start now... the absolute dumbest thing....
One night in DC at about 3:30 am, I decided that I was going to swim across the tidal basin (for no apparent reason) from the cherry blossoms to the Jefferson Memorial. So in jeans and shoes and everything I jumped into that nasty water... I might have made it (even though it was a LOT farther than it looked) but on the other side, was about a 5 foot stone wall. Even if I made it, I couldn't get out. Fortunately for me, there were paddle boats for rent there and my buddy stole one and paddled out to save me.... I honestly could have drowned then y'all could have made fun of what an idiot I was... and I would have deserved it.....