So I watched the ESPN Outside the Lines report on Adam "Pacman" Jones and here is the conclusion I have come to:
IF YOU RUN WITH CRIMINALS, CRIMINAL THINGS WILL HAPPEN
Pretty simple if you think about it Pacman rolled with some criminals and in returned a lot of criminal activity happened in his presence. That is totally his responsibility and he is paying for those choices. When you are a high profile figure you have to understand it isn't just about you. Everyone you associate with becomes a reflection of you. Hang with good people you are normally labeled a good person. Hang with thugs you will label a thug as well.
Might not be fair, but it is what happens in our society. When a regular person is in a club drunk and gets into an altercation and says:
That is normally just the liquor talking and neither he or his crew have the means to carry out that threat, but when you are "Make It Rain" Jones and you make that statement and your friends are:
MURDERERS!!!!
It is more likely they carry out your drunken threat in your name. What is truth? Who knows it is probably somewhere in the middle, but this should be a lesson for all athletes and entertainers coming up in the game on who not to associate with.
You can watch the report here and draw your own conclusions:
OUTSIDE THE LINES: PACMAN JONES PART 1
OUTSIDE THE LINES: PACMAN JONES PART 2
Written By BonaFide Sports Expert Robert Littal
those look like some rough dudes and why are the accusers hiding there faces? That seems odd to me
Well this sure doesnt make Pacman look any better. But at the same time we dont know who in the hell these witnesses are and what their credibility is. I dont know if they are telling the whole truth. And of course those 2 guys that are locked up might be telling the truth and Pacman might be lying. One thing I do know is clubs and stripclubs need to start searching these celebrities just like they would search anyone else. If you observe the first video closely you will see that the security person searched the witness before he went in the club but she didnt check Pacman nor anyone in his crew. What has to happen before clubs stop giving too much preferential treament to celebs? Will an innocent person have to be killed by some celebrity that never got searched?
i watched the report on sunday only b/c i heard pacman was going to sue ESPN over it. there probably wasn't enough for a criminal conviction, but my intuition is telling me his hands aren't clean. i find it very odd that pacman was hanging out with the same guy who allegedly tried to extort money from him and threatened to go after his child a few months earlier. something about that doesn't sound right.
my favorite part, aka the part that made me weep for the future of the black community, is when one of the alleged victim says something to the affect of "he must not have liked the way i turned away from him". i didn't realize it had gotten that serious.
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