Thug Factory: Another Florida State Football Player Accused of Beating Woman

In what is beginning to become a familiar pattern another Florida State Seminole football player has run afoul of the law for punching a woman out. This comes just days after the announcement that the school had cut ties with freshman quarterback De’Andre Johnson after a video of him punching a woman in the head at a bar went viral. The school has indefinitely suspended star running back Dalvin Cook and authorities are issuing a warrant for his arrest.

The latest garnet and gold clad thug was expected to play a huge role for the team this year as it tries to offset the loss of superstar quarterback and accused rapist Jameis Winston who has now taken his act south to Tampa Bay and NFL millions. Cook is also accused of beating up a woman – this one took place outside of a bar – and could end up being benched by a university that is now faced with trying to salvage it's image as being a thug factory.

As being reported by ESPN in the story “Dalvin Cook facing battery charge, indefinitely suspended by Florida St.”:

The state attorney's office in Tallahassee will issue a warrant for the arrest of Florida State running back Dalvin Cook, who is accused of punching a 21-year-old woman in the face several times during an argument outside a bar last month.

Florida State issued a statement Friday afternoon saying Cook has been suspended from the program indefinitely. The university said it would have no other comment.

State attorney Willie Meggs told ESPN.com on Friday that he had met with the woman, who is not a Florida State student, and a female witness on Friday. Cook's accuser presented Meggs photos of her injuries.

Meggs said Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Miami, will be charged with misdemeanor battery.

"I found the women to be very credible," Meggs said.

The alleged incident occurred the night before former Seminoles quarterback De'Andre Johnson punched another woman at a different bar near the FSU campus on June 24. Seminoles coach Jimbo Fisher dismissed Johnson from the team on Monday night, hours after the state attorney's office released surveillance video showing Johnson punching a 21-year-old FSU student in the face.

The woman who said Cook punched her told ESPN.com that her bottom lip was split and her nose was sore the next day. The woman said she identified Cook as the man who struck her in a photo lineup with two Tallahassee Police Department investigators on July 1. She told police she wanted to pursue criminal charges against him.

The Cook incident makes it obvious that the football team is a festering nest of criminal conduct and with the latest in a string of ugly public relations scandals the football program itself should be placed under scrutiny by the NCAA. There is an obvious disciplinary problem on the team and an institution that is obviously being overly permissive in sacrificing decency for dollars needs to look into some serious housecleaning.

As the old Greek proverb so aptly states “a fish rots from the head down” and that head belongs to FSU head coach Jimbo Fisher. Somebody, anybody who is an influential booster or has some power within the college hierarchy needs to call Fisher on the carpet because at some point winning and the big television bucks need to be secondary to developing decent citizens instead of gangstas.

Oh Chief Osceola, say it ain’t so!

New Scumbag NFL Role Model Jameis Winston Drafted Number One

There is a new American idol this morning as the NFL put it’s money where it’s mouth is and rolled out accused rapist, thief and general all around scumbag Jameis Winston as the number one pick in the draft. Oh lord how the money will roll in – his character has already been inserted into the newest version of Madden video football – and all of the phony contrition by the league over those domestic abuse cases are now exposed as nothing more than horseshit and hypocrisy. Despite all of the public relations pieces and spin to excuse their new merchandising cash cow's troubles as youthful indiscretions the leering little jackass promptly punked everyone by sending out a picture of himself with a big platter of crab legs. But what could one expect of a guy who refused to even show up in person at the draft and instead had the fawning media come to him. There was even a red carpet rolled out leading into his Alabama home last night.

What a class act.

Not that this was unexpected given the dismal state of moral decline in America and I am sure that there will be those who will begin to label critics of Winston as racists despite his sordid past and inevitable future of trouble. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers, one of the most putrid organizations in the history of pro sports will trot out Winston at a press conference today as if he were the second coming of Christ.He will be adorned in one of their garish, arena league style jerseys. his number will be "3" which is nicely symbolic of “three strikes and you’re out”. The Bucs will now shower millions upon millions of dollars upon the new face of the franchise despite having alienated a good portion of their fan base by going through with pissing away the top pick on a thug.

They got burned badly but are too stupid to know it yet although with a chump of a head coach in Lovie Smith -who doesn't exactly elicit memories of Vince Lombardi - at the helm, there is a reason why they ended up with the number one pick in the draft. Now he has staked his career on a ticking time bomb who is so shameless that he sent out that post-draft crab legs picture. It is a wonder that he didn't jump up on the table and shout "I'm going to f*ck her right in the pussy" too.

The Washington Post reports today that “Jameis Winston just trolled America by eating crab legs after getting drafted No. 1”:

Whatever you think of Jameis Winston — and odds are your opinion is as strong as his throwing arm — the 21-year-old is not one to shrink on the big stage. He aced his first game for Florida State, dominated opponents on his way to a Heisman trophy and national championship his first season, and seemed to grow more focused amidst allegations that he raped a fellow FSU student.

So it is perhaps no surprise that Winston chose to celebrate being chosen as the No. 1 pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft in controversial fashion. In a photo he posted to Instagram, Winston posed in a Tampa Bay Buccaneers hat and jersey while holding a plate of monstrous crag legs.

Don’t see the controversy?

Winston’s snack was, it seems, a sly allusion to the time when he was caught taking a plate of crab legs from a Tallahassee grocery store without paying for them. The quarterback was given an adult civil citation, allowing him to avoid a criminal record.

He chalked the crustacean kerfuffle up to “a moment of youthful ignorance.”

That moment only occurred a year ago, however. And his draft night dig at his critics does little to allay fears that he will be a liability for the league or his future employers.

Then again, Tampa is a Jameis Winston throw from Tallahassee, so there are few places he would be more welcome. In fact, he already has a standing offer from a local restaurant: free crab legs for life.

Even if he stays away from scandal in Tampa, Winston will still have to contend with the rape allegation. FSU was accused of botching its investigation into the incident, but Winston was never charged with a crime. Earlier this month, however, his accuser filed a lawsuit against the football player.

Winston, who will reportedly earn a $14.5 bonus for being the top pick in the draft, was typically defiant. Or at least his lawyer was.

“This stunt was expected,” attorney David Cornwell told ProFootballTalk when the lawsuit was filed. “[The accuser’s] false accusations have already been exposed and rejected six times. This time will be no different. Mr. Winston welcomes the opportunity to clear his name with the truth. Mr. Winston is looking forward to the upcoming draft.

There will however be the lingering stink cloud that hangs over Winston's beating of the rape charges on him because of the good ole boy network centered around powerful Florida State University. The newly filed civil suit was moved out of Orlando into Winston friendly Tallahassee a few days ago where it will be snuffed out. It would hardly benefit the money machine that is the  NFL were the newest star in their marquee to have his good name tarnished before they are able to sell as much Winston related gear as possible.

Nobody is saying that he is the second coming of Charles Manson with his cult leader sway over true believers or that he cooks and eats his victims like Jeffrey Dahmer did but the dude is destined for trouble with a capital “T”. That “T” stands for Tampa, a major Florida sin city and the home of some of the  most renowned all nude strip clubs in the southeast. It's a veritable Mecca for a young stud with newly found wealth, a reputation for sexual deviance and a dick as hard as Chinese arithmetic. The only real upside is that now that “Famous Jameis” has hit it big he can just buy his pussy instead of having to resort to rape.

As for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, when Winston implodes they will be fully deserving of their fate.

Air Scumbag: Nike Signs Thug Jameis Winston to Endorsement Deal

The merchandising gold rush is on as corporations are set to begin harvesting the next crop of potential superstars prior to the upcoming NFL draft. Big sports names can bring mega profits, especially if they end up having success at the professional level and let’s face it, the NFL long ago ceased being primarily about football. The actual football games are just the exoskeleton that the league wraps around itself to obscure the reality that it is a ruthless business enterprise that rakes in the dough off of merchandise sales and corporate sponsorship deals. So it should come as no surprise that athletic apparel goliath Nike has signed accused sex abuser and crab leg thief “Famous Jameis” Winston to an endorsement contract.

ESPN is reporting that “Nike signs QBs Jameis Winston and Marcus Mariota”:

The world's largest shoe and apparel company confirmed to ESPN.com that it signed Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston. Sources say the company has also signed this year's Heisman Trophy winner, Marcus Mariota, and the two runners-up, Wisconsin running back Melvin Gordon, Alabama wide receiver Amari Cooper, as well as Georgia running back Todd Gurley. Terms of the deals were not disclosed.

Signing Winston certainly has its risks. On Thursday, Erica Kinsman, who accused the quarterback of sexually assaulting her in 2012, filed a civil suit against him. Winston was never criminally charged and the university ruled that there wasn't enough evidence to say that Winston was in violation of the school's conduct code. Winston's attorney denied the accusations again after the suit was filed.

Ironic that Nike jettisoned star Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson as a spokesman last year out of concern over his child abuse charges but is down with inking a dude who was able to beat the system on a rape charge.  Winston, who is a lock to become the number one pick in the draft – thanks to the woefully tone deaf Tampa Bay Buccaneers organization – will be a hot commodity until he inevitably gets into trouble with the law. The millions of dollars about to be showered upon the troubled young man will buy a lot of gold chains and other bling, a convoy of vehicles to load his homeys into for the trip to Tampa and lap dances galore at the nude bars on Dale Mabry Highway. Nike is going to cash in now while Winston’s market value is at its peak.

But once again, it’s all about the money. Nike would probably even hire a cannibalistic pederast to hawk it’s sweat-shop manufactured shoes if there was money in it. In Winston's case that famous swoosh does somewhat resemble an erect penis although marketing it as such would be a bridge too far even for Nike.

Morning After Super Bowl Hangover: Just Run the F*cking Ball!!

When it comes to snatching defeat from the jaws of victory Mitt Romney has nothing on Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll. With a Super Bowl win a virtual lock and the Seahawks having the ball on the one yard line with one time out and the best short yardage back in football, Carroll dialed up a play that will forever live in infamy. Rather than run the surly “Beast Mode” wrecking ball Marshawn Lynch for the winning score, Carroll ordered a pass play right into the teeth of the Patriots defense. It was intercepted

intercepted by a nameless rookie from a backwater Alabama college. Game over, the Patriots win it all and “Deflategate” gets flushed down the memory hole. Fans in Seattle were so stunned that they didn’t even bother to riot after the game.

Granted that the Super Bowl is just an overhyped football game where the biggest winners are the corporations able to produce the most effective sales pitch with their commercials. It is the bread and circuses of the modern era in an America on the downtrend but for sheer entertainment value it will be tough to beat what went down in Glendale, AZ last night. While it is my personal opinion that pro sporting events and sports team/athlete worship are given a disproportionate amount of importance in an America where celebrity is the coin of the realm, I admit that I am a longtime pro football fan. Super Bowl XLIX more than made up for the dismal 43-8 flogging administered by Seattle to the hapless Peyton Manning led Denver Broncos last year. It was truly a game for the ages and the botched call that delivered the championship to the fast and loose duo of Bill Belichick and Tom Brady will be talked about for decades. It had to be the worst call in Super Bowl, if not NFL history. Suicide hotlines must have been overwhelmed in the Pacific Northwest last night.

The day after has the inevitable dissections of the game by the pundits and so-called “experts” but also the scoring of the commercials. This year’s ad spot costs clocked in at an average of $4.5 million for 30 seconds.  It has been a triumph of enormous proportions to not only get millions of Americans to so accept subtle brainwashing – the very purpose of advertising – but to tune into the Super Bowl just to watch the ads. I know many folks who do this and then babble about the inanities for days after the game is over. Most of the spots are perfectly crafted for a dumbed down public and feature silly, sexed-up Idiocracy style ads that hawk everything from soft drinks to high end automobiles.

Super Bowl advertising may have reached a nadir in terms of sheer tastelessness with the Budweiser farting horse spot years ago but 2015 will be remembered for a spot featuring the death of a child. That’s right, Nationwide Insurance actually ran an ad exploiting the emotions of Americans in order to sell their crappy insurance, not that tact can really be expected from an industry that engages in legal extortion. There was also manufactured celebrity Kim Kardashian in typically self-indulgent fashion hawking T-Mobile while taking “selfies” of her body. Toss in multiple commercials with shit blowing up and more celebrity swill and Monday water cooler conversations should have plenty of fodder.

What is rarely mentioned - especially not by the NFL - are the costs associated with the event, particularly the price of providing security. The Department of Homeland Security has classified the Super Bowl as a Level 1 security event and was pushing the "If you see something, say something" government snitch program in the Phoenix area. According to the computer security website "Naked Security":

Military assets will be used to patrol the airspace above the stadium, and the Federal Aviation Administration announced that the Super Bowl is strictly a "no drone zone."

On the ground, fans will see public awareness messages on billboards, in hotels, on buses, and within the stadium telling them: "If you see something, say something."

Naturally there will be screenings to gain entry to the stadium - spectators will go through metal detectors and patdowns by security guards - but fans will be monitored in other ways, too.

Phoenix-based Climatec announced that it had deployed high-definition cameras to provide "complete situational awareness" throughout the stadium.

The Secret Service will also be monitoring social media sites such as Facebook and Al Jazeera Blog, searching for keywords such as "black out," according to Nextgov.
Nuclear device-sniffing and BioWatch monitoring systems will be on hand to detect radiological or biological attacks.

And 4,000 private security personnel will supplement the 3,000 member local police force, who have all been trained in behavioral analysis to identify suspicious activity.
It's difficult to put a price tag on all this security, especially considering that the NFL and the federal government don't disclose how much it's costing.

While the costs are kept from the taxpayers the New York/New Jersey area in which last year's Super Bowl game was played reportedly spent upwards of $100 million for security and other associated outlays. But despite all of the security at Metlife Stadium, a 9/11 "truther" was still able to get into the post game press conference and hijack the microphone from MVP Malcolm Smith. As with the rest of the cash cow Global War on Terror (GWOT) all of the pricey "security" that taxpayers are socked for may not be as good as advertised.  The host city does indeed experience a temporary economic lift from the game but it may not be such a good deal when the final bill is tallied up long after the tourists have departed.

Once the clock struck zero, MVP Tom Brady pranced around with the Lombardi trophy wearing the smug look of a man who knows that Deflategate will now just fade away and that his legacy has been secured. The NFL’s crackerjack public relations wizards have been spinning all week to downplay what was very likely cheating by the Patriots organization. Influential New England owner Robert Kraft essentially threatened NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell with the loss of his $44 million salary if he didn’t publicly apologize or in layman’s terms, kiss the asses of Kraft, Brady and Belichick. The latest on the scandal that should result in an asterisk being added to the Patriots' world champion title is that the league now claims that only one football was seriously deflated. They also have apparently settled on going with the “lone gunman” explanation by placing the blame on a doddering ball handler. But of course cheating pays in America, especially when combined with dumb-assery like Pete Carroll’s ill-fated passing play.

As loathsome as the Patriots may be for pushing the envelope on the rules, many likely enjoyed seeing the smack-talking Seahawks get their comeuppance. The team is a mouthy, undisciplined bunch that is always guaranteed to draw stupid penalties for their on field antics and cheap shots. Before Pete Carroll blew it with his decision to not run the damn ball, infractions greatly assisted the Patriots' fourth quarter comeback including a costly 15 yard personal foul penalty by Earl Thomas. Usually the defense is good enough to overcome the idiotic flags that they regularly draw but injuries and a big time performance by Brady cost them Sunday. And they still should have won the game if only they had run the damned ball.

Wide receiver Doug Baldwin exemplified the classless attitude of the Seahawks with his end zone celebration where he took a pretend dump using the ball as his turd in the third quarter. This sort of thing used be funny back in junior high school but shows a disrespect for both the game and decent society. 

Then there is Lynch's crotch grabbing, Richard Sherman's antics and a myriad of other acts that are unprofessional and insulting. Who knows, maybe Lynch would have fumbled the ball trying to grab his balls before crossing the goal line anyway rendering Carroll's call moot. The post game fighting doesn't exactly portray the Seahawks as good sportsmen either.

Football season is now officially over.

Woman Beating Sports Thug Ray Rice Wins NFL Appeal Case

It is a lamentable fact of modern American society that professional sports figures are elevated to role models with youth. This is especially so with the evolution of major sports leagues into global marketing colossuses whose merchandising money dwarfs that of revenue generated by the actual“games”.  Professional athletes have been embraced as idols going back to the pre-television era and the likes of Babe Ruth, Jim Thorpe and others so living vicariously through them is not a new phenomenon by any stretch of the imagination. Sports however do mirror society and the times in which we live so the dismal character of many pro players are a given. Look at O.J. Simpson aka "the Juice". Was there ever an example of such a turnabout for a transcendent celebrity athlete who was adored and revered until he butchered his wife and got away with it?

2014 has been chock full of examples of fallen stars and one that has drawn more than his share of national media attention is former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice. Rice drew cries of outrage after the release of a security camera video showing him brutally knocking out his then fiancee Janay Palmer in a hotel elevator. The NFL, which has invested a ton of marketing dough into appealing to women – as evidenced by their cynical, pink-festooned annual exploitation of breast cancer – so such an act of domestic violence was a public relations nightmare. The overbearing ass that is NFL commissioner Roger Goodell immediately flew into action to apply the necessary damage control and dropped the hammer on the woman beating thug Rice.

Rice was quickly dumped by the Ravens and  became a pariah to the extent that he was removed from the mega-popular Madden 2015 video game. Additional incidents involving domestic violence followed the Rice video and included Minnesota Vikings star Adrian Peterson as well as Carolina Panthers defensive end Greg Hardy, both of whom were dealt with harshly by the league.  Rice’s fall from grace going from the starting running back of the 2012 Super Bowl champs to a reviled and despised figure wasn’t of Orenthal like proportions but sent shockwaves through the sporting world nonetheless.

Well Ray Rice, domestic abuser, spouse pounder and high profile thug is about to get another chance because he just won his appeal and is eligible for reinstatement. According to a Reuters story, “Former Ravens running back Ray Rice wins appeal, is eligible for NFL”:

Former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice has won an appeal of his indefinite suspension for domestic violence and is now eligible to sign with any National Football League team, the league said on Friday.

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell suspended Rice, 27, in July for two games for punching his then-fiancee Janay Palmer unconscious during an altercation at an Atlantic City, New Jersey, casino in February.

But after elevator security video surfaced in September of Rice's one-punch knockout, the Baltimore Ravens released the three-time Pro Bowler, and his $35 million contract, and the NFL suspended him indefinitely.

The hearing officer in the appeal this month concluded that Rice did not mislead Goodell when he disciplined Rice the first time and therefore the commissioner acted arbitrarily in imposing a second, harsher punishment based on the same incident and known facts.

"I do not doubt that viewing the video in September evoked horror in commissioner Goodell as it did with the public. But this does not change the fact that Rice did not lie or mislead the NFL at the June 16 meeting," former U.S. District Court Judge Barbara Jones said.

Rice said in a statement on Friday that he made "an inexcusable mistake." He said he accepts responsibility and will work to improve himself as a husband while giving back to the community.

With the playoffs rapidly approaching and a high number of running backs having been injured this year it is a near certainty that some team will sign Rice soon. It will not be the Baltimore Ravens though considering the mass public exorcism that culminated in an official team sponsored "Ray Rice jersey exchange" , but when the stakes are high and there is money to be made morality and principle go out the window. That is just the way we roll in America these days in a bizarre land of collapsing values, greed and terminal dumbness where celebrity is by far the most valuable coin of the realm.

Provided that Rice can keep his wife-beating in house and away from those prying security cameras he may even become a role model again with a whole new line of new team apparel on the shelves just in time for Christmas.