Despite my status as a complete OSU homer, I will be the first to admit that the school has a serious problem with their athletes behaving as good citizens. In just the past year, the star receiver was busted for driving while impaired at 4am on a Tuesday morning, the freshly crowned Big 12 “Newcomer of the Week” was suspended from the basketball team for aggravated sexual assault, and two football players reenacted a scene from Roadhouse.
While those guys receive minor penalties (like being excused from having to participate with the travesty of basketball being performed) for actual crimes, one former player is constantly getting real heat for nothing. One of the headlines on ESPN.com on Wednesday related to former OSU Cowboy and current Dallas Cowboy Dez Bryant being detained for “criminal trespass.”
That sounds serious until one reads the article to find out what happened. Dez and a group of his friends were in an upscale mall in Dallas, and some of them were “sagging.” Since the mall caters to rich white folks, they could not have obvious criminals–looking to spend the money of their uber-wealthy buddy–scaring away the normal patrons by showing their expensive underwear. So, they asked Dez and his crew to leave.
Dez, who claims his pants were above the waistline, took exception to being ejected and made a scene. If white people dislike urban style, they hate black guys getting loud, so the event made news. And of course, Bryant came off as the bad guy.
Why? Well he has a history. A history at that mall, even. Here are some of the priors the ESPN article listed for Dez at that large collection of retail stores:
- Illegal parking
- Cutting in line
- Arguing with a woman at a restaurant
With a rap sheet like that, it is incredible that he is not locked up without bail. Tack on to that his problems at OSU that the NCAA ended his college career over (lying about meeting Deion Sanders) and the reason he fell ten spots in the NFL draft (chronic tardiness). Obviously, the man must be stopped.
Is the man perfect? No. He certainly has some problems with decision making. For instance, he should have just asked the salesperson who ejected him from the mall if they work on commission, then said “Big mistake,” and calmly left. Instead, he caused a scene that further tarnished his unfairly bad reputation, then he tweeted that he was going back to that mall to buy the shoes (LeBron James’ basketball shoe) that he had intended to get. Come on! They sell those at every shoe store, don’t give those idiots your money.
Meanwhile, in a league that is going to alienate their fans while they fight with their union, gave a franchise tag to a player who spent two years in prison for animal cruelty, recently saw a former face of league get caught for being a child rapist, and has teams lining up to sign a player whose prison term (for shooting a firearm in a crowded bar) will be ending soon, Dez Bryant is the one having to answer questions about his character. I would admit that I was naive about him being worse than what he has actually been caught doing, but for someone who cannot get away with cutting in line despite being a football star, I doubt he could get away with real crimes.
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Slow clap. The media is trying hard to find their next TO. Let me know when Dez breaks a law, doesn’t give anything less than 110% in a game and starts calling out his teammates.
Guess I should have stopped reading when I read “A complete OSU homer” . . . seriously, how hard is it to go to a mall (or anywhere) and not get into trouble? . . . I’ve managed to do it for 44 years . . . the vast majority of us can go out in public and not get escorted out of an establishment by authorities, but Dez Bryant can’t . . . poor guy . . . bless his heart, just gets picked on I suppose . . .
I’m an OSU homer myself, but I just can’t feel sorry for Dez. The poor guy, just can’t be bothered to wear clothes that he doesn’t have to hang onto the entire time to keep them from falling flat to the floor, exposing his potentially skid-marked underwear to the world in the process. Wonderful, I just can’t wait to sit on the same seat he just got up from, pressing his only underwear-clad ass into the plastic. Give me a break, put some damn clothes on, I don’t want to look at your underwear OR ass sticking out the top of them!
Dez doesn’t need you to feel sorry for him. Who are you? I hate when piece of crap low-lives come on blogs and give their racist rants because they had their white prize was taken from them by some black athlete. “Potentially skid-marked underwear…” Dez is probably getting baths from four black goddesses like Eddie Murphy in “Coming to America” while you wash your white pimply ass in your tin washtub. The only seat that Dez sits in that you could ever have the chance to sit in is a mall public restroom toilet because his social class level is at least ten levels higher than your own. Jealous scumbag!
How was anything GGORE said racist? And how the hell is Dez social class “at least ten levels higher”?
Being an athlete doesn’t make you any better than anyone else, and it damn sure doesn’t make you untouchable.
There are dress codes everywhere, and if his ass was hanging out of his pants, the mall has the right to refuse service to anyone. “No shoes, No shirt, No service”…nearly every business in the world reserves the right to refuse service to a patron, but because it’s Dez, and he’s black, it causes a stir?
Racism only rears its head due to ignorance so you must be pretty damn ignorant.
Funny though…now that you mention race, I enjoy hearing stories from those who grew up opressed in the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s because of the suffering their families endured over 150 years ago; do tell.
Quit making excuses for this idiot. He needs to grow up, pull up his pants, and learn how to act like an adult.
So Dallas is proactively trying to avoid having their own Crossroads Mall?
They already do. The Red Bird Mall in Oaklawn.
I never realize how many senior citizens read this website.
Doesn’t the article and the Espn clip say that Dez was not the one with the wardrobe malfunction? Yet, the senior citizens scold Dez in the comments.
Evidently said senior citizens are illiterate and/or have the reading comprehension of a ritalin deprived 9 year old.
GET OFF MAH LAWN!
Damn whippersnappers.
Not necessarily senior citizens, Clark…. just as likely right-wing, redneck, republicant reprobates.
I thought this was a decent article until Deion came out today and said Dez needs help and he won’t have anything to do with Dez. What a mess.
I’m a Democrat, not necessarily Senior Citizen, and I STILL don’t want to look at your baggy ass hanging out over your baggy-assed droopy pants and underwear, dammit!
Does the fact that he had his pants over his waist make any difference? Obviously, it doesn’t to me, but apparently it’s a hang up to you.
A pattern here… he’s a tad bit antisocial:
The odds are better of him going to prison in the next 5 years than for OSU to win the Big 12-2
I heard he left the toilet seat up at his girlfriend’s house. Anyone hear about Aqib Talib? I didn’t think so.
It continues:
http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=6267347