Colts punter arrested after drunken, early morning swim By Chris Chase Look out Peyton Manning(notes), there's another idiot kicker on the prowl in Indianapolis. Colts punter Pat McAfee(notes) was arrested on Wednesday for public intoxication after going for a pre-dawn swim in a canal near some Indianapolis bars, the Associated Press reported. Police found him shirtless and wet, reeking of alcohol, with watery eyes and slurred speech. The second-year player out of West Virginia had a blood-alcohol content of 0.15. In case all those things didn't tip off the police as to McAfee's lack of sobriety, these three incidents mentioned in the report probably did the trick. 1. When police asked McAfee how much he had to drink, he responded, "a lot, cause I'm drunk." 2. Police also asked McAfee whether he had gone swimming ("I'm not sure") and, if not, how his shirt got wet. Like Milli Vanilli, he blamed it on the rain. It was a fine strategy, except for the fact that Tuesday night/Wednesday morning in Indianapolis was perfectly clear. (It was pretty cold though; overnight lows in the city hit the low 40s.) 3. The cops were called after a woman saw a shirtless McAfee approaching her car at a red light. Colts president Bill Polian said the club will investigate and then discipline McAfee appropriately. We say to go easy on the kid. He wasn't driving, he wasn't fighting, he wasn't harassing; he had a few too many and decided to go for a late-night, mid-week autumn swim in a dirty, near-freezing canal. We've all been there before. Related: Peyton Manning << WTF? :lol: Gratutitous Linky
if i were an NFL punter, I would get trashed every night of the week besides saturday. something to help me forget the shame i brought upon my family.
I just love how quickly the writer defends the guy... Really? I've never dove into a fukin freezing lake..
If you were an NFL punter on no less a team than the Colts (your 'family-shame' threshold notwithstanding), what "shame" exactly would you be relaying to your family--at that time--beyond: "sorry Mom & Dad; I hope you've appreciated the full-ride scholarship I've won (dad: go buy that car) at U.WestVa., but I've moved on and just won the punting job for the Indianapolis Colts? ....oh, and by the way, I'll give my best to that Peyton Manning guy.....he'll probably not know me from a hole-in-the-wall but whatever...." Shame? The clown stepped on his dick, just like a slew of others (kickers/db's and otherwise) in D-1 and in the NFL. And, say what you want, but that "stupid liquored-up kicker" that Peyton Manning referred to WAS in the wake of, if I'm not mistaken: The New York Jets - 41 Peyton Manning Colts - ZERO Look, Indy-wise, but...imagine the Jets b-slappin' the Colts 41-zip. IT HAPPENED!!! .... off the drunken comments of the Indy kicker MONTHS AFTER the Jets kicked Peyton Manning and the Colt's ass to the tune of 40+ to nuthin' .... what am I missing here? Really. who the fuck cares at this point? The guy kicks in an indoor 'controlled' environment. This board's gotta lotta 'ain't been there in it' ..imho... Mommy!....Daddy!!....the "A.D" just said that next year's tuition is "on the arm!" Actually, that's a nice thing....er, nice thang.
My college roommate played basketball with him. Apparently he wanted to play pro soccer and instead went to the NFL. Seriously though, if you were the punter for the Indianapolis Colts, wouldn't you drink all the time too?
Ya, I'd feel sooo horrible to make $368,280 to punt a football down the field a few times per game. Such a terrible and disgraceful job.
