Oh Boy, Packers & the Police

[Tarlam!]

TT and M3 will be seriously pissed about this. I hope it all turns out to be a big misunderstanding.

I guess we're all allowed one mistake......unless you're an NFL player.....

[MadtownPacker]

Sorry Tarlam, but shooting a gun and then getting caught with it is not a misunderstanding. CRodgers messed up. Considering the chance he has been given to make mega-cash you would hope he would be smarter.

[Tarlam!]

Yah, he messed up, but so did our scouts. We were high on character, but I guess we missed the mark....

Still, innocent till proven guilty. Some new truth might shed a different light on it.

[Bretsky]

Sorry Tarlam, but shooting a gun and then getting caught with it is not a misunderstanding. CRodgers messed up. Considering the chance he has been given to make mega-cash you would hope he would be smarter.

When I read all this crap, I still wonder WTF Teddy didn't just draft Demetrius Williams, who was a better college player anyways.

[Harlan Huckleby]

i don't see what Rodgers did as that huge of a deal, shooting a gun in the air to ward-off trouble. I mean, it's not nothing, it's an illegal gun, but he wasn't holding-up a liqueor store. I can imagine myself using a gun in a similar manner if I felt threatened.

But the whole situation raises distrubing questions about who Rodgers is hanging out with.

[GrnBay007]

i don't see what Rodgers did as that huge of a deal, shooting a gun in the air to ward-off trouble. I mean, it's not nothing, it's an illegal gun, but he wasn't holding-up a liqueor store. I can imagine myself using a gun in a similar manner if I felt threatened.

But the whole situation raises distrubing questions about who Rodgers is hanging out with.

Has it been reported anywhere that he was shooting the gun in the air to ward off trouble? I didn't see that anywhere.

After reading this:

"Nearly two dozen police officer were called in to handle the situation. When they arrived, they heard gunshots. Police say they found Rodgers in the back seat of a car with an empty handgun.

According to the police, Rodgers fired two shots into the air during the melee. He faces charges of carrying a concealed weapon and discharging a weapon within city limits."

He's already in the back of a car. Why not get away from the situation? Doesn't really matter when he fired the shots. The fact that this guy is carrying around a gun (...or using one) means trouble. Dump his ass.

[MadtownPacker]

But the whole situation raises distrubing questions about who Rodgers is hanging out with.

People would be disturbed if they knew we talk to you.

[Harlan Huckleby]

According to the police, Rodgers fired two shots into the air during the melee.

It is not clear what happened.

I remember a few years back Tyrone Williams unloaded a gun into a car door. That was an even more troubling scenario.

It is definitely a red flag. I wouldn't dump Rodgers yet. Youthful indescretion.

[GrnBay007]

[quote="Harlan Huckleby"]

Youthful indescretion.

Yeah, not sure yet..........but it's sure looking like "Youthrul indescretion" = Gang Banger in this case.

[Joemailman]

i don't see what Rodgers did as that huge of a deal, shooting a gun in the air to ward-off trouble. I mean, it's not nothing, it's an illegal gun, but he wasn't holding-up a liqueor store. I can imagine myself using a gun in a similar manner if I felt threatened.

But the whole situation raises distrubing questions about who Rodgers is hanging out with.

All the more reason to get him out of there and into Green Bay. Feed him a few brats, wash it down with some Leinie's, take him out for a night of Polkas, and he'll be a changed person.

[Harlan Huckleby]

All the more reason to get him out of there and into Green Bay. Feed him a few brats, wash it down with some Leinie's, take him out for a night of Polkas, and he'll be a changed person.

Madison is having a brat fest this weekend, brat & soda for a buck. I pigged out on sometin else today, can't go. Saur Kraut & relish, hot mustard. Christ, I love those brats. Last year I was virtuous and had veggie brats. But then I had to drive back and get some real ones because I felt deprived.

[Tarlam!]

..... because I felt deprived.

Must go nicely with being depraved, I'd imagine....

[Patler]

Madison is having a brat fest this weekend, brat & soda for a buck. I pigged out on sometin else today, can't go. Saur Kraut & relish, hot mustard. Christ, I love those brats. Last year I was virtuous and had veggie brats. But then I had to drive back and get some real ones because I felt deprived.

Harlan; I was in Madison on Friday and saw a sign on the beltline for this. What's it all about? Manufacturers serving samples, or various groups together as a giant fundraiser?

[Fritz]

Maybe I'm too liberal, too out of touch with reality, but I'm the only one who seems bothered by the fact that this young guy felt the need to tote a handgun - illegally owned, I believe - around with him on his night out.

Don't most people keep their guns at home? Then, when an incident occurs they run home and get the gun, and then they start shooting. Must be different in Texas.

[Patler]

Lets not jump to conclusions. I'm not condoning anything that happened in any way shape or form. However, we don't know that it was his gun, or that he was carrying it that night. He was in the backseat of a car, which might be where the gun was before he fired it (assuming he did fire it, and not just have it afterward when the police found him).

Again, I'm not excusing anything he may have done, but there are still a lot of questions.

BTW, I predict his contract will have a lot of extra provisions about character and behavior that otherwise wouldn't have been there! He brought it on himself just by being involved.