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May 1, 2011, was a Sunday. Shelton and his family hadn’t been out of church long when his older brother Shennon, who went by Skeevie, got a call from their oldest brother Tui’s girlfriend. In a nearby apartment complex, a fight had escalated throughout the day.1 An argument between two 13-year-olds had intensified to include their families and others. Tui, then 23, had been recording the scuffles with his phone when he’d been pulled into the fray and punched in the back of the head before fending off three men. Tui’s face was cut and bloodied, and he’d called his girlfriend, urging her to tell his brothers to meet him nearby. Soon, five men — Skeevie, Danny, their youngest brother Kevin, a cousin, and another friend — approached the apartment of Olenthis Woods, the older brother of one of the 13-year-old boys. Woods was one of the men who’d jumped Tui.

Danny moved to the left side of the house. Through a window, he could see Woods carrying a gun as he walked toward the front door. He called out to his brothers, who didn’t budge. The first shot hit Tui in the chest. A second shot hit Shennon in the head, behind the ear. By then, Shelton was in front of the house, with a chair in his right hand. Woods raised the gun but didn’t fire. It was jammed. After throwing the chair, Shelton was able to wrestle the gun from Woods before pulling him to the ground. Gun in hand, Shelton hit Woods in the face repeatedly as Woods’s sister and mother yanked at Shelton’s hair and pepper-sprayed his face. He says he let up only when his right biceps seized, allowing Woods to shake free.

“My whole body was covered with blood,” Shelton says. “The guy’s blood and my brother’s blood, because we carried him to the curb. I went home, washed all the blood and pepper spray from my eyes, and went to the hospital.” Paramedics said Shennon had died before reaching the hospital. The bullet lodged in Tui’s chest was too deep to remove, but after surgery he would eventually recover.

effectual posted:

Good thing they didn't call the cops, they would've all been killed.

Maybe the NFL should have its own police on standby for players.

Mel Mudkiper posted:

Is anyone else having trouble following who did what in that paragraph

blue squares posted:

I'm sitting at the library waiting for class and reading a scientific journal called Poultry Science. Funny title but it's pretty boring. Would not recommend.
There's also Plant Physiology which at first I thought was Plant Philosophy and now I'm disappointed.

football fuckerman posted:

bad news, you got the something awful tab confused with the email to mom tab

Mel Mudkiper posted:

If i had a nickle for everytime I accidentally told my mom how hard I want to be cucked

SA2K posted:

I'm writing Tebow/Mel cuck fanfic right now

Mel Mudkiper posted:

I am writing the Ross/Los Angeles sequel

A Man and his dog posted:

Pretty sure Justin Blackmon is done...

I always wonder about him. Has he finally matured and cleaned up his act?

football fuckerman posted:

quoting from one of my favorite Les Savy Fav songs, nice my dude

let's see if we can get this thread back on track with: Michael Crabtree
Oakland is not the place to prove anything probably Michael

Ehud posted:

I guess that it was confirmed that Dion Jordan isn't doing voluntary workouts this year.

What a mess.

Burger Trench posted:

Why not? Injury? Trade rumors? General dissatisfaction?

Burger Trench posted:

Why not? Injury? Trade rumors? General dissatisfaction?

Beer4TheBeerGod posted:

Supposedly he's been in rehab, or at least he was in the fall. Whether or not it sticks (or if he even gets a chance) remains to be seen.

blue squares posted:

I'm sitting at the library waiting for class and reading a scientific journal called Poultry Science. Funny title but it's pretty boring. Would not recommend.
There's also Plant Physiology which at first I thought was Plant Philosophy and now I'm disappointed.

Blitz7x posted:

I hope Michael Crabtree and Trent Richardson tear up the league both ironically and unironically

WHOOPS posted:

BGN posted:

When the 2015 NFL Draft starts on the evening of Thursday, April 30, it might not take very long until Marcus Mariota is off the board. There's a lot of speculation that he could go as soon as No. 2 to the Tennessee Titans. There's even more speculation that a team, including the Philadelphia Eagles, could trade up to No. 2 to select Mariota.

But even if a trade doesn't happen and the Titans end up taking him, it's possible he might never play a down for them. NFL Insider Jason La Canfora is now suggesting that a Mariota trade could take place "days or week after" this year's NFL Draft is finalized.

Here's what La Canfora specifically had to say about the possibility of Mariota to the Eagles.

"I could easily foresee a scenario where Kelly flops Bradford in a three-way deal with the Browns, with Cleveland getting the former first-overall pick and the Eagles flipping the first round pick they get for him, plus a future top pick in say 2016 to grab Mariota. Kelly made a huge impression on Haslam, the Browns' owner, when he interviewed for their job a few years back. He knows he could do business with them if need be and he knows the Browns will trade one of their number one picks for Bradford assuming it's not part of a package to get Mariota.

Sure, all of this may be a little outside the box. It's not the norm. But people have to understand that with this new collective bargaining agreement, and with these draft picks such a cheap, fixed cost now, the business has changed. In the past you may have had to pay a premium when trading up for a quarterback in terms of what you had to pay him, and the element of "signability" mattered. No longer. Doesn't matter who his agent is, or that you got him via trade or that he's going to throw a football for a living rather than block or run. The second overall pick is going to cost you just the same financially, and that only helps keep trade options alive.

There are more wheeler-dealers in the game now, and more trades in general than we've seen before, and more involving big names. We see more trades inside the top 10 than we used to and we've seen more youngsters dealt only a few years after being selected high in the draft.

The old draft value chart was long ago thrown out the window. Used to be it was impossible for teams to move up too much. Then we had the Julio Jones trade. The D.J. Hayden and Dion Jordan draft-day deals showed us, again, that every trade scenario is unique and can't be viewed through the old wide prism of the value chart. These picks can't bury your cash and cap like they used to, and in a draft like this, with maybe 16 players worthy of a legit first-round grade, and so much beauty in the eye of the beholder and scheme-specific, this draft has the potential for all kinds of transactions.

Adding iconoclasts like Kelly to the league – wildly aggressive and unconcerned with convention – has only increased the potential for things not usually seen, and this being a copycat league and all, well, he seems to have stirred other teams to be more creative or proactive as well."

Now, as La Canfora even notes, this would hardly be a conventional trade situation. NFL teams don't typically draft players only to trade them away shortly afterwards. That's more of an NBA-type thing. But if there was ever a time for an unconventional trade to be made, it wouldn't be surprising to see Chip Kelly involved in it. Especially when it involves his former star signal caller who he has gushed over multiple times.

So even if the Eagles don't walk away with Mariota on draft night, the trade rumors might not be stopping any time soon.

Kalli posted:

Harsh truths coming from the Milwaukee Bucks game:

DO YALL WANT A HAM posted:

But they still live in Wisconsin

Chichevache posted:

I dropped 50 pounds in 9 months and now I'm 160 pounds of beta. Put me out of my misery.

Kalli posted:

Harsh truths coming from the Milwaukee Bucks game:

Jerome Agricola posted:

6 feet and <140 pounds i'm a super model


The perfect facial expression, positively Cutlerrific.

No Butt Stuff posted:

Mariota is going to go to the Titans and everyone will be sooooo surprised.

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Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy was involved in a verbal altercation with backup defensive lineman Davon Coleman at the team's facility on Friday and had to be separated by teammates, sources have told FOX Sports.

The dispute between Hardy and Coleman arose from Hardy's questioning Coleman's effort during conditioning drills, a source said. Hardy is working out with his new teammates after signing with the team earlier this month. He was suspended 10 games for a violation of the league's personal conduct policy following charges of domestic abuse last year, though he's permitted to take part in the team's offseason program.

Coleman's agent, Michael Loeffler, confirmed there was a confrontation between Hardy and his client, though Loeffler said it was only a verbal argument and not a physical fight. Sources said teammates got in between the two players before the argument could escalate.

Hardy signed a one-year deal worth a base value of $11,311,600, though there's no guaranteed money in the deal. Hardy also has $9.25 million tied up in per-game roster bonuses — $578,125 for each game active.