Posted on 08/27/2013 9:45:56 PM PDT by rickmichaels
Aaron Hernandez was a heavy drug user who surrounded himself with gangsters, according to Rolling Stone.
The upcoming issue of the magazine will feature an investigation into the former NFLer’s life that includes interviews with family members, high school teammates and NFL sources.
A teaser on the publication’s website offered details from the article:
• Hernandez was a heavy user of angel dust, and had become so paranoid over the last year that he carried a gun wherever he went.
• He surrounded himself with a cohort of gangsters, and cut himself off from his family and teammates.
• Hernandez had so infuriated his head coach, Bill Belichick, with missed practices and thug-life stunts, that he was one misstep from being cut.
• Both his parents, Dennis and Terri, had criminal records, as did much of his extended family.
• Terri allegedly cheated on Dennis before his death with a violent drug dealer named Jeffrey Cummings, then married Cummings after Dennis died and moved him into the house she shared with Aaron.
• In college his coach (then-University of Florida head coach Urban Meyer) may have helped cover up failed drug tests, along with two violent incidents — an assault and a drive-by shootout outside a local bar.
Hernandez was indicted last week on first-degree murder for the killing of semi-pro football player Odin Lloyd. He is also being investigated for links to a 2012 double-murder in Boston.
I imagine that being an NFL coach at times is similar to being a prison-warden
ONLY something good about Hernandez would surprise me.
Another reason I no longer am into football, college or pro nearly as much as I used to be. I’m tired of the thugs.
To be honest, I don’t even know who Florida is playing this weekend, that’s how detached from the game I’ve become.
Now that's some industrial strength stupid right there.
Yep, Richard Ramirez in football attire.
Is the word “cohort” new school for “posse?”
So will Rolling Stones feature him on the cover in a glamor shot? Isn’t that what they do with thugs now?
Rolling stone has ALWAYS sucked.
Does anyone ever read it? Who ever held a subscription?
No One!
Playboy at least gave you some skin for the excuse of reading the articles.
Rolling Stone never delivered.
Lets do a cover article on Elton John and 80 pages of more dreck.
He should hace stuck with the “purple drank”
No. It is a Roman army unit.
What is Angel dust?
Rolling Stone panned the first four Led Zeppelin albums. Thirty years later, they finally admitted they were wrong.
Elvis Costello could yodel in the shower into a tape recorder and Rolling Stone would run out of deliriously positive adjectives to describe the new album. I’ve never met one person who likes Elvis Costello.
David Lee Roth once said that the only reason music critics like Elvis Costello is because they all LOOK like Elvis Costello.
This is not what a coach wants to worry about. Frankly, I’d make it a simple rule....you do anything stupid, and you get noticed for that stupidity....I release you. I’ll put the clauses into the contract, and let them know the rules of life.
Like I always say, you can’t be an angel dust addict for long.
PCP?
I didn’t even know people still used that...
What kind of idiot would willingly put that in their body?
PCP
You don’t want to know.
Hi, I'm Sideshow Bob and I love Elvis Costello.
btw, I've never met anyone who wasn't a stoner who likes Led Zeppelin.
David Lee Roth once said that the only reason music critics like Elvis Costello is because they all LOOK like Elvis Costello.
Really? You're going to cite David Lee Roth, a marginally talented vocalist and one of the dumbest human beings on the planet, as your source? Are you crazy from the heat?
Don't get me wrong, I really like the old Van Halen tunes. They were fun as a band, Alex and Mike were a great rythym section and Eddie's guitar was groundbreaking, but half of their best tunes were covers and their original lyrics reflected a doped up 8th grade level of intelligence. Fun, but no real substance.
Led Zeppelin was even worse - no substance and no fun. Plant's shrieking vocals are awful, their lyrics are faux mystical and bordering on unitelligible and I generally detest that entire 70's heavy guitar sound.
In contrast, Elvis Costello's lyrics are witty, carry meaning and convey the gamut of human emotions and feelings. His music is tuneful and generally contains hooks that will grab you. I enjoy Costello's baritone voice and his ability to work in so many different musical styles - pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and even opera - is a testament to his musicianship.
Feel free to listen to whatever music you have been conditioned to like, but I think the paragraph above lists the actual reasons why professional music critics prefer artists such as Elvis Costello and dislike drug-addled rockers like Led Zeppelin.
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