Rolling Stone on Hernandez

[Eric M VAN]

http://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-gangster-in-the-huddle

Aaron Hernandez might have been one of the NFL’s all-time greats, but he could never escape drugs, guns and a life of violence

BY PAUL SOLOTAROFF WITH RON BORGES | August 28, 2013




I'm betting the following is Borges'

Only one team took the bait, burning a midround pick on a guy with “character issues”: the stoop-to-conquer Patriots of Bill Belichick.


I can see him rubbing his hands together enjoying taking that (not totally undeserved) shot....and this one too

Time was, the Pats were the Tiffany franchise, a team of such sterling moral repute that they cut a player right after they drafted him, having learned he had a history of assaulting women. But Beli-chick, the winner of three Super Bowl titles and grand wizard of the greatest show on turf, had decided long before he got to New England that such niceties were beneath him. Over a decade, he’d been aggregating power unto himself, becoming the Chief Decider on personnel matters. He signed so many players bearing red flags they could have marched in Moscow’s May Day parade (Randy Moss, Donte Stallworth, et al.), and began drafting kids with hectic pasts, assuming the team’s vets would police them. Some of this was arrogance, some of it need: When you’re picking from the bottom of the deck each spring, you’re apt to shave some corners to land talent.

[fitzhickey]

I haven't been following the case all too closely in Australia
It isn't earning much attention ATM
But that was a good read IMO
Pretty insightful and as someone who knew nothing prior I have some understanding of the case now
TP for the link

[D.o.s.]

As expected, the Pats are denying bits of it.

[Eric M VAN]

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[CelticG1]

Borges was already backing down from a lot of what was written or implied in the article. Kind of a joke