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Tommy from Nissan in Smyrna goes out after work and drinks one night. His BAC is .11. Do we ever hear about it? No. Does anyone care about it? No. But sense it JJ Redick, everyone jumps on the guys case. There are athletes doing a lot worse than drinking and driving, but yet he gets bashed for something so simple?

Redick chose to be a public figure. He chose to have the level of income, and attention, afforded a top-flight athlete.

Redick is hardly the only athlete I bash for his crimes. He's just the one that's the subject tonight.

.. Ok .. So let me get this straight, a man kills someone while drunk and doesnt serve a day in jail and then gets caught again but we dont rag on him? We rag on the man who went out and had one too many to drink and got pulled over? Makes perfect sense to me. JJ didnt harm anyone, but LL killed someone. Lets continue to rag on JJ, I think I sense some jealousy.

I have dogged Leonard Little. Including on this thread. Including, in fact, the post you just replied to. He did serve 90 days in jail, but he got off light. And in case you're wondering...no, I'm not a Leonard Little fan.

BTW, all-knowing SD...is .19 drunk? Just curious.

Redick didn't harm anybody...this time. He did put lives in danger. If you decided to play russian roulette right now, you might not harm anybody...this time. But eventually, you'd get to the bullet. Redick was lucky he had a blank, so to speak. Hopefully he doesn't ever do it again.

wow somebody needs some sleep. im sorry, that i dont care to spend my time reading some huge story about JJ's personal life, and then get on here and bash him, judge, say hes a bad person, say duke is just terrible ... dont know what your definition of "hammered" is ... i just stated my opinion that .11 isnt hammered and how cops are with famous people .. im sure he was paid a lot of money to release that info too. AND JJ CAN STILL BALL SO I DONT REALLY CARE THAT HE WENT OUT ONE NIGHT AND DROVE NOT DRUNK BUT ABOVE THE LEGAL INTOXICATION LIMIT FOR DRIVING ... it might have been hard to tell what his percentage was without a breathalizer in his pocket.

How can you be naive enough to say he wasn't drunk?

Here's a free clue. If he's over the, as you put it, "LEGAL INTOXICATION LIMIT FOR DRIVING," he's drunk. Like VG said, if he did a U-Turn to get away from the police roadblock, you can be pretty sure he knew he shouldn't be driving.

Also, since you know everything there is to know, being a wise high school graduate and all, please help me here. How exactly did the cops know it was a famous person that hung the U-turn right in front of them? Does North Carolina have Famous People tags like we have, I don't know, university tags?

But yes, it doesn't matter what he does, he can ball. Nothing else matters at all. And nothing ever will. Right?

.. I am informed on the topic. Im a huge JJ fan. Ill admit he was in the wrong, but everyone blew it way out of proportion.

Obviously you're a huge fan, it's blinded you to the reality. It is *NOT* blown out of proportion.

I'm a huge St. Louis Rams fan. In 1998, one of their defensive linemen (former Tennessee linebacker Leonard Little) -- not even a guy who drank often, by all accounts -- got very drunk at his birthday party...on the way home, he ran a red light and killed somebody. Then in 2004, 2 years after he gets off probation, he gets busted for DUI again.

No big deal, everybody drinks, right?

The idea is to not kill people. Especially when it's not necessary.

Why should we waste our time and read it when your going to fill us all in on it and tell us that we were wrong, since you were there and everything.

Yes, because you'll always have someone else to do your work for you. And yes, it's a waste of time to be informed about something you're willing to argue about. Complete waste of time.

Keep on thinking that in life.

.. So .11 qualifies everyone as hammered, no matter what?

Simple question here. If your BAC is .11, are you legally sober enough to operate a motor vehicle?

Hammered, drunk, wasted, smashed, whatever you want to call it, I don't care. He was not within the legal limit, and he was not CLOSE to the legal limit.

yeah, i was too lazy/tired to read the story ..

There's a shocker.

Because simply reading the headline and one paragraph makes you an expert on what's going on.

Typical sign of the way this country is headed. Your opinion will matter a lot more if you make it apparent that you have a freaking clue what you're opining about.

.. So pulling a U-turn to avoid a police roadblock qualifies someone as hammered? You dont know if the JJ was drunk or just had a buzz, no one knows what he was feeling but himself.

If he wasn't drunk, how did he blow a .11 on the breathalyzer after the whole arrest process was done?

No, a U-turn doesn't make him hammered. But a U-turn to avoid a police checkpoint WILL get you pulled over.

ok well still ... he was .11 .. the legal limit is .08 .... if you do the math that is .03 over ... that is NOT hammered. and im sure that cop was sitting outside of that bar (or where ever he was) just waiting for him to come out so he could pull him over and breathalize him. thats just how it is if your name is known nationwide

1) It was .11 when he was booked in jail...which means it was probably a bit higher than that when he was actually pulled over. They didn't just randomly come to .08 as the legal limit, either. At .08, you are not legally sober enough to drive. He was probably around 50% past that when he was pulled over -- actually, when he did a U-turn to try to get away from the police checkpoint. That's hammered enough.

2) The cops were running a DUI checkpoint in a metro area of about a million people. Yeah, they were just looking for Redick.

he said he was .08 OVER the limit ..

That is incorrect information.

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=...&id=4265345

EVERYONE DRINKS.

1) No, not everyone does.

2) That's fine. Don't drive until you've sobered up. Doing so is reckless, stupid, life-threatening, and illegal.

I agree, his blood alcohol level was .08 over the legal limit. Give him a break. And you know there had to be a cop just waiting to bust him. Does it make it right? no. Was it a good decision? no. And the justice system will do their part to take care of it.

.08 IS the legal limit. He was at .11, which is almost 50% above the legal limit. IOW, he was pretty well hammered.

I don't have much sympathy for DUI...you don't have to drive home. Get somebody else to do it or just pass out on the floor there, whatever -- don't risk somebody else's life trying to drive while hammered.

I dont. The kid had a few drinks, so now its the end of the world?

Duke, and Redick, get held up his whole career by the media as the perfect example of what college basketball should be about blah blah blah, Duke's nothing but class, high character, etc.

This does not fit the force-feeding.

Opp...that was hilarious!!! I`d buy one of those.

 

I bet those would sell like hot cakes in Raleigh.

Tying it back to the original topic...they were banned on Ebay.

So whatever it is -- as long as it isn't making fun of Saint Redick's DUI...

According to the calendar, there were 11 CoachT birthdays today! Ya'll should look at the August calendar to see how many people were born then! INSANE

You're just trying to get more people to say happy birthday to you...we see right through your charade.

.. no .. its an actual jersey and its autographed .. its the black jersey with silver lettering and numbering

Too bad...I like my version better.

.. as do many other things

Get a room, you two.

.. i found a JJ jersey i wanted today but i refuse to get it off there

Is it this one?

Whats the big deal about players posting? So they talk a little trash, as long as they back it up, whats the big deal?

Because it reflects badly on the school when school representatives show themselves to be morons, and it can cause more tension at a rivalry game -- meaning more crowd control.

There's nothing wrong with players posting on here, IMO...necessarily. But not all players can do it appropriately.

Coaches want to pull plug on players' blogs

Absolutely.

Too much possibility for negative PR to go uncontrolled. And you have to watch even closer at private schools with strong religious ties. etc.

I don't know why she said that...first off, she's gross, but to announce something like that? Guess her new song must not be doing well on the charts---shock of all shocks!

Just means she's gonna let demand build up a little more before she decides to go back to her main secondary income...

I'll simplify this whole thread down to one word, which is my coacht pet peeve: stupidity.

In case there's any question...I do not mean QB is stupid. I mean her pet peeve (and everyone else's in this thread) is stupidity...just expressed in the different forms it takes.

an old clanker u drive around on big farms...

What's a big farm?

I'll simplify this whole thread down to one word, which is my coacht pet peeve: stupidity.

Don't people give their kids really old vehicles or old farm trucks as their first car or the thing they learn to drive in anymore?

What's a farm truck?