TV/NFL: It’s Not Stanley Wilson, Eugene Robinson or Ray Lewis bad, but Warren Sapp’s arrest joins infamous Super Bowl arrests

Posted: February 7th, 2010 | Author: Zim | Filed under: Announcers, NFL, TV | No Comments »

Former NFL Sack Master and now NFL Network personality.

• Warren Sapp tried to “help her up after she had fallen”…by choking a woman by her neck at 5am…
• Arrest of former NFL-er during Super Bowl weekend doesn’t quite compare to those that involved people in the actual game like Eugene Robinson, nor is he implicated in a murder like Ray Lewis…

• Some where in a jail cell, Stanley Wilson is trying not to think about what could have been once upon a time in Miami.

by Mike Zimmer

Warren Sapp’s excuse for his domestic abuse charge is pretty freakin’ weak.  Seriously dude, you couldn’t come up with something better than “I was trying to help her up after she had fallen”???

Sapp was arrested at his hotel room in Miami, where he is a member of the NFL Network’s cast of criminals personalities.  http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Arrested-at-the-Super-Bowl-Warren-Sapp-joins-in;_ylt=AsS.4Wo5WgHP.1VfK02MLn45nYcB?urn=nfl,218057

Of course, this isn’t as bad as an actual member of one of the teams playing getting arrested on Super Bowl weekend.  It’s not quite as bad as a married Euguene Robinson kissing his family goodbye at dinner and then being nicked for trying to solicit a prostitute the evening after he’d won his ”Man of the year” award for moral character.

Nor is it as bad as Ray Lewis…stabbing someone to death…being indicated in a possible homicide…knowing who stabbed a guy to death…lied to police and obstructed justice in Atlanta.

Yet, Sapp, as a former person and being part of the suddenly beleaguered NFL Network stable of personalities and analysts, is still on the wrong end of something bad on Super Bowl weekend.  It seems Miami has had their fair share of Super Bowl weekend shenanigans and players getting busted or screwed up.

Of course, as a Bungles fan, Miami was cruel too.  Super Bowl XXIII was marred by the fact that Stanley Wilson was found coked out of his freakin’ mind in a Miami hotel room and would go on to miss the biggest game of his life and that of the Cincinnati Bengals.

Some where, in a jail cell some place, Stanley Wilson is probably trying not to think about the Super Bowl and what might have been 21-years ago.  Wilson had become the late lightning rod on the Bengals smash mouth offense in that magical year.  After James Brooks and Ickey Woods carried most of the load all year, Wilson was the change of pace and the guy who could both beat you around the corner or slam you in the mouth kind of like Pierre Thomas is for the New Orleans Saints.  Wilson had been featured more prominently in the late part of that season with Brooks banged up and Woods now playing the part of battering ram.

Just think, if he’d not been so stupid, perhaps, just maybe, the Bengals pull that game out of the fire.  On a few places where the Bengals were faced with a 3rd and makeable and where Wilson had been “The” guy in the weeks leading up to the big game, the Bengals just couldn’t get that extra “oomph”, that extra yard and punted or kicked field goals instead of getting first downs, keeping the ball away from Joe Montana or punching the ball into the endzone for a game sealing score.

No, Warren Sapp just choked his girlfriend at 5am.  That’s bad enough, but it’s not Stanley Wilson choking a nation of Bengals fans and helping ruin my childhood.

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