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Pro Football Weekly has unearthed a pleasant little nugget from the endless parade of young men flexing in their underwear that is the NFL Draft: Three of the top expected draft picks admitted to smoking pot.
Amobi Okoye, Calvin Johnson and Gaines Adams all admitted during interviews at the NFL combine that they have used marijuana, according to a story reported by Pro Football Weekly on its Web site. All three are regarded as top-10 picks and all three could be off the board in the first five picks.
PFW says it seems unlikely this would affect their draft stock, and we say thank heavens to that. We hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but we no longer are too taken back by marijuana use by our athletes. In fact, we're starting to think there's something weird if they're not doing drugs. (This is why we wouldn't draft Brady Quinn, by the way.) In fact, we're pretty convinced everybody else who was asked is lying.
The Way We Hear It [Pro Football Weekly]
Wanna Get High? [AngryT]
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Mmmm ... "pleasant little nugget" ...
Nice to know I still have a chance to play in the NFL.
I'm surprised they weren't smoking pot during the interview.
Football players smoke pot; basketball players in shock, awe.
I am shocked...SHOCKED! to learn that college athletes are smoking marijuana. Next you'll tell me they were drinking beer before they were over the age of 21.
What? NBA Stars Smoke Pot?
fixed
I'd be more surprised to hear that they wear kilts.
Michael Strahan.
Um, nevermind.
Considering he had Reggie Ball as his quarterback, I'm surprised Calvin Johnson didn't resort to heavier drugs.
I plan on unearthing a pleasant little nugget out of a film container as soon as I get home.
C'mon, Okoye just turned 13, it's a rite of passage.
Wait, what?
And they'll quickly sign an 'endorsement' deal with Aquafina!
CJ will need a lot of pot to deal with whatever awful team he is going to have to play for.
@Peter Cavan: College students and alcohol?
Now you are getting ridculous
"Just pot?"
- Bengals
The use of marijuana might hurt HURT their draft stock?
Al Davis doesn't understand, these guys just skyrocketed up his draft board
Wow, ARod with the clutch HR.
Wow.
ALEX FUCKING RODRIGUEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@BowdenBowdenBowden: A-Rod feels SASSY! now.
Sorry, but I have an old Phil Hartman SNL skit stuck in my head.
In other news, Brady Quinn admitted to smoking pole.
@theWolf: The topic probably came up whenever Matt Millen lit up a spliff in the middle of his draft interviews.
Might help to explain his draft history.
@Robert Barone's Dog: That was painful to look at. Thank you very much.
@PQ Crash: Why apologize for that?
Joe Borowski, on the other hand...
Wow, Michale Kay just lost most of his vocal range in that half inning. It was such a lovely day up until now...
you know, you can turn those goalposts into a gnarly bong!
Hey, why not smoke a little pot? Look at how well it worked out for Ricky Williams.
ah yes, just like the "sometimes smoke pot" thing that the Lions didnt think was a big deal when they drafted Charles Rogers....
son of a bitch! Couldn't anyone else have been up against a shitty pitcher who is clearly falling apart and going to blow the game??
If they really wanted to get drafted higher they sould have smoked Eddie Robinsons ashes.
@BowdenBowdenBowden: I watched the gamecast from my cube in detached horror. As soon as Borowski let it get back to A-Rod, I knew the game was over.
This is the part of my day where I drove home and pummel the steering wheel.
"They're not booing, Millen. They're all saying, 'Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuude.'"
@BowdenBowdenBowden: That guy is the worst for quicksand moments. It's as if one base runner is the end of the damn universe. They even got him a grand slam insurance run in the ninth and he STILL blew it.
@PenskeMaterial: Or Randy Moss, must be excited, there's a pretty good chance his team's about to draft himself a new weed connect.
@McBain: Worst thing is that it was a waste of a quality start from Fausto Carmona.
Well, at least the Indians didn't do anything stupid like trade their old closer so this guy would have a shot.
What? For real?
@Barone's Dog: Y HELO THAR, NITEMAR FOOL!
But seriously, that dude's got calves like tree trunks. Do you know how much HGH, er, I mean, how long I'd have to work out to get my calves to look like that?
"I don't see anything wrong with that. They all have promissing careers ahead of them."
-Ricky Williams
At least none of these guys had sex with a girl under 17 during high school.
the best part about the A-Rod thing was that first base was OPEN and they still ptiched to him. Good thing he wasnt the hottest player in MLB coming in to the game or anything....Stupid Indians....
@BowdenBowdenBowden: THERE'S a sentence I thought I'd never hear. He was pretty great today. Shameful, Bobby W. There wasn't even an error or any questionable calls to be angry about.
Well, at least Manny remembered he was allowed to hit HRs in this league.
@Gyroballs Mahoney:
That's an insult to pot!
For some reason i think a poll of any major college, using only the non-athlete student body would end up with similar results. With the exception of accounting majors of course.
AN A-BOMB FOR A-ROD
walkoff young man...walkoff.
A-ROD BITCHES!!!!! Mr. Clutch
So let me understand this. Now that A-Rod is red hot, everyone likes him again?
@The Curse of Harold Ballard's Bunker: And here I was thinking of how good the timing was, it being between meals and all.
@buttons: I wonder how many wheelbarrows of blow they had to promise him...
Soo...Doesn't this makes their performances that much more impressive?
@AndyReidsOtherSon: Excuse me?
/accountant
The NFL does care about this stuff, and I'd be loathe to spend a #1 overall pick on a guy who'd be playing in Canada one day.
I can't A-Rod did it again... just incredible...
@Weed Against Speed: Looks like you could be a yankee fan
@Weed Against Speed: and for what it's worth, I always liked him...
@Kalamazoo_Kicker: Seriously, if someone could stop John Sterling from making an ass out of himself every time anything remotely good happens, I might be willing to pay for that.
It's nice to see that the Indians' bullpen is still choking away leads. The more things change...
Eric Wedge is now going to challenge Paul Hoynes and Sheldon Ocker to a street fight if they even ask why he pitched to A-Rod.
@Weed Against Speed: no, I still dislike him. But it has more to do with his sad need to please everyone, than his performance.
@Diddly: No way. But how did you reach that conclusion?