Buffalo Bills Talk

I started thinking back to earlier years and which Bills made off-field
negative headlines. Because I did not live in Buffalo for many of these
years, because I was overseas for some of them, and because I didnt have
access to the internet before the late '90's, I may have missed some of the
negative news. I could only recall the following, and I'm not even sure of
the details of those.

Bruce Smith, early in his career, for drug use.
I think Cornelius Bennett for spousal abuse or something like that.
If I'm not mistaken, Andre Reed got into some kind of scrape with the law.

These are the only *prominent* players I can recall having this sort of
legal problem.

Granted, there was lots of partying, but not much that I can recall which
precipitated serious police involvement.

In the last year, there have been 4 prominent Bills who have had problems
with the law. I'm concerned that this might be a disturbing trend in the
kinds of players they are willing to sign on.

> I started thinking back to earlier years and which Bills made
> off-field negative headlines. Because I did not live in Buffalo for
> many of these years, because I was overseas for some of them, and
> because I didnt have access to the internet before the late '90's, I
> may have missed some of the negative news. I could only recall the
> following, and I'm not even sure of the details of those.
>
> Bruce Smith, early in his career, for drug use.
> I think Cornelius Bennett for spousal abuse or something like that.
> If I'm not mistaken, Andre Reed got into some kind of scrape with the
> law.
>
> These are the only *prominent* players I can recall having this sort
> of legal problem.
>
> Granted, there was lots of partying, but not much that I can recall
> which precipitated serious police involvement.
>
> In the last year, there have been 4 prominent Bills who have had
> problems with the law. I'm concerned that this might be a disturbing
> trend in the kinds of players they are willing to sign on.

There was a lot more stuff. Kelly had several run-ins with the law. OJ
would routinely smack-around his first wife, but since he was a local hero,
it would go unreported. None of this stuff is new, it's just more known
because of the internet.

MBD

"MBD" wrote in message
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>> I started thinking back to earlier years and which Bills made
>> off-field negative headlines. Because I did not live in Buffalo for
>> many of these years, because I was overseas for some of them, and
>> because I didnt have access to the internet before the late '90's, I
>> may have missed some of the negative news. I could only recall the
>> following, and I'm not even sure of the details of those.
>>
>> Bruce Smith, early in his career, for drug use.
>> I think Cornelius Bennett for spousal abuse or something like that.
>> If I'm not mistaken, Andre Reed got into some kind of scrape with the
>> law.
>>
>> These are the only *prominent* players I can recall having this sort
>> of legal problem.
>>
>> Granted, there was lots of partying, but not much that I can recall
>> which precipitated serious police involvement.
>>
>> In the last year, there have been 4 prominent Bills who have had
>> problems with the law. I'm concerned that this might be a disturbing
>> trend in the kinds of players they are willing to sign on.
>
> There was a lot more stuff. Kelly had several run-ins with the law. OJ
> would routinely smack-around his first wife, but since he was a local
> hero,
> it would go unreported. None of this stuff is new, it's just more known
> because of the internet.
>
> MBD

I hadnt heard any of that stuff about Kelly. OJ is no surprise, but I don't
think any of that was publicized. Despite the fact that the internet was
not so active over these year, I don't think it would have slipped by the
newspapers. But then again, those of us out of town wouldnt have heard
about it.