Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Bulletproof?


In an effort to hinder the wheels of justice long enough to play out the 2006-2007 season, Green Bay wideout Koren Robinson plead not guilty to charges of driving drunk and topping 100 mph during a police chase this summer in Minnesota. To the NFL and commissioner Roger Goodell's credit, they suspended him anyway, feeling that while playing 'Speed Racer' he had been boozing it up, which was a violation of his probation for previous incidents with alcohol.
Maybe Goodell's antennae went up after reading this statement from Robinson in a Chicago Tribune profile. It was caught by City Pages writer Mike Mosedale after Robinson's suggested relapse into alcoholism earlier this year:
"I just want to make sure I'm good for the season before I put myself back in that lifestyle. In the NFL, when you lose, you feel real down and when you win, there's a lot of celebrating. I'm just making sure I'm bulletproof and being proactive."
Mosedale goes on to cite the 'Ten Stages of Drunkeness', written by sportswriter Dan Jenkins, wherein 'feeling bullettproof'' constitutes the final stage of inebriation. The entire list:

1. Witty and Charming
2. Rich and Powerful
3. Benevolent
4. Clairvoyant
5. Fuck Dinner
6. Patriotic
7. Crank up the Enola Gay
8. Witty and Charming, Part II
9. Invisible
10. Bulletproof
Get this guy a bus pass for life.

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