Either that, or they're braindead morons.
Posted on 05/26/2005 11:28:12 AM PDT by BurbankKarl
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) Former NFL quarterback Todd Marinovich was arrested for investigation of violating his probation after being found in a public bathroom with apparent drug paraphernalia.
Marinovich, who has acknowledged that drug addiction derailed his once-promising football career, was being held in an Orange County jail pending a drug court hearing scheduled for next week.
A police officer found Marinovich in the bathroom May 20 with a bent spoon and syringe. The former quarterback fled on a bicycle but was arrested 15 blocks away, police said. On the police report, he listed his occupation as "unemployed artist."
Marinovich, who lives in Balboa, was first arrested on drug charges when he was a student at the University of Southern California. He earned nearly $2.3 million as a first-round draft pick of the then-Los Angeles Raiders in 1991, but was removed from the roster after two seasons due to his drug problem.
He later played football in Canada and the Arena Football League. He was arrested on drug charges in 1997, 2001 and last August. In last year's arrest, he was caught skateboarding in a prohibited area carrying methamphetamine and three syringes, police said.
He pleaded guilty to those charges and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years' probation.
If someone is still physically active at 60, they deserve a thumbs up.
You know, if you are known around campus as Todd Marijuanavich, it is pretty safe to say you smoke alot.
The Spice Must Flow
You know, if you've got a name like 'Marinovich' its pretty easy to come up with a nickname. Especially if you're being a bigtime groomed star with media following your every move. Now your pejoritive against him is his nickname, swell.
"At this point he is just pathetic, I cannot even muster enough outrage or sarcasm to mock him. People this messed up are a shame and a waste."
Ditto
Pretty much the same way I felt about that actor -- Downy Jr or something. I guess he's still alive. Just sad.
His Dad was one of those guys who lived vicariously threw him. Todd lived and breathed football from the day he could breath. The kid just cracked. I don't blame him much. His Dad should have let him live his own life. Now Todd's much worse off that if his Dad would have been such a pyscho.
ROTFLMAO!
The drugs SHOULDN'T take the blame anymore than booze takes the blame for someone becomming drunk or guns should take the blame for for killing. They are just objects and substances.
What matters is how people DEAL with those objects and substances. Someone raised in a household with a brutal father with little respect for human life will have a higher likelihood of using a gun to shoot someone. That doesn't make the gun at fault. Todd Marinovich was raised in a different kind of abusive household, and that predisposed him to certain addictions. When he met them, after being sheltered from EVERYTHING for his entire life, his downward spiral was almost preordained. It wasn't the fault of the drugs - it was the fault of him being raised in a way that made it much more likely he would be addicted to drugs, booze, or whatever he latched onto.
It's about responsibility. Blaming drugs or booze for someone's problems is the easy way out. It takes the responsiblity away from people and their behaviors onto some object that has done nothing on its own other than merely exist. They are merely a crutch that people try to use for blame. "Oh, the booze made me do it". Bullcrap. YOU did it. You chose the booze. It didn't choose you.
This is a REAL case of blame the parents, though. His Dad wanted him so badly to be a quarterback he denied him any sort of life as a kid. Then the kid just cracked under the pressure.
Dad's like that are pathetic. You see them scream at their seven year old son because they missed a free throw.
"A little pot never hurt anyone! /sarcasm"
Users today tell me the stuff is many multiples stronger, than stuff from the 60s and 70s. Chemical additives.
Todd is an addict, through and through. He cannot use any mind altering substance, successfully.
I'm sure he has ben through rehab and recovery several times, heard it all and perhaps put together some clean/sober time.
But once an addict, always an addict. Start to use again, and the addiction, craving, obsession and life-style all kick back in.
Total and permanent abstinence is the only known treatment for addiction (drugs, alcohol).
So here we have a man, about 35 years old, former NFL QB, riding bicycles and skateboards to escape police, after him for cooking his drugs in a public restroom.
He's probably a lot like Robert Downey, Jr. who by the way seems to be putting together some clean/sober time.
Pot doesn't require a spoon and a needle
He made it 15 blocks?!?!? His Father will be so proud...
Light up another one there....
I am pretty sure my step sister partied with him when she was there.
Not letting your children eat bad food during their formative years is not a sign of being disturbed. It's the same concept as not exposes children to cigarette smoke.
Maybe the kid just has an addictive personality - it happens. Lots of problem kids have come from bad families and lot of good kids have come from bad families. Sometimes its just what is inside us.
The father did equip his son to be a starting QB at USC and a first round draft choice. It didn't work out the greatest, but he still made more money that most will in their life.
Either that, or they're braindead morons.
Good for her! I would have treated your friend even less hospitably.
I suppose you are right. You can't blame poison for killing someone. It is only doing its job. You can blame the poison's cheerleaders though.
At the 'University of Spoiled Children'?
That is what I thought.....
I had to pay my way through school.
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