Tank -- NOT CHARGED w/ DUI

[Ripcity4life]

This makes the Bears look even dumber and i hope Tank signs with another team in the same division. I want to see Tank sack Grossman and then look up at the owners box and Bears sidelines and Laugh. I think the Bears management are a bunch of fools.

[TylerB]

I think you are the one who looks dumb. He wasn't cut because of the potential DUI

[SportsWorld]

As a few of us said before, Angelo should have at least waited until the results came back before cutting Tank. What harm would that do?

[Monkeyfeng06]

I think you are the one who looks dumb. He wasn't cut because of the potential DUI

i thought it was..

[TylerB]

He was cut because he was out speeding around at 3am after what had happened. He just didn't get it.

[NoSkyy]

If I was managing the team I would give him another chance, but honestly come on whatever he's doing out at 3AM cannot be good.

[Posey H8er]

Still, just because he wasn't .08 doesn't make it all right. He was under a microscope by the Bears and he partied too late with alcohol consumption and was speeding on the road at 3:00AM.

[Monkeyfeng06]

^yup, i guess you guys are right. he's done in chicago.

[blumeany]

This makes the Bears look even dumber and i hope Tank signs with another team in the same division. I want to see Tank sack Grossman and then look up at the owners box and Bears sidelines and Laugh. I think the Bears management are a bunch of fools.

How can anyone (not just you, I've heard it elsewhere) call the Bears dumb because of these test results?!

YOU ARE MISSING THE POINT.

The guy had MULTIPLE VIOLATIONS. He actually SERVED TIME IN PRISON. The Bears stood by him and said: "Keep your nose clean, or else". Everyone in the league knows the commish is COMING DOWN HARD ON SCREW UPS! He even got suspended for 8 GAMES! Well, HE decided to drink and HE decided to drive afterwards. YET ANOTHER BAD DECISION. Not to mention the fact that his BAC came out JUST UNDER the legal limit, it was very close. It shows, and clearly at that, that the guy has learned ABSOLUTELY NOTHING and he would and will continue to be a liability to himself and those around him.

Kudos to the Bears for being patient with him, but knowing when to pull the plug.

P.S.: Can someone, anyone, tell me why these professional athletes can't hire a driver?

[IVSKIN]

I would seriously disrespect all of the Bears Brass if they allowed him to stay on the team after that. Make a damned effort. He is no better then Pac Man Jones, and I am sure we all think he is an idiot.

[WEFFPIM]

Wasn't he at 0.72? So just because he was 0.08 under the legal limit makes it ok for him to be driving around still?

[Triple_6_Mafia]

Wasn't he at 0.72? So just because he was 0.08 under the legal limit makes it ok for him to be driving around still?

Quite so actualy, not speeding though.


Theres a reason theres a LEGEAL LIMIT.

I mean they cut him for a speeding ticket, I mean really after all the other crap he did whats a speeding ticket?

[blumeany]

They didn't drop him for a ticket, they dropped him for being an f'ing moron. If the guy had any intention of changing, he wouldn't have put himself in that situation. AT THE LEAST, if he wanted to get drunk he would have either had a sober friend drive him or hire a driver. Instead, he drank and then sped around town. He's a moron, plain and simple and it's only a matter of time before his situation becomes a tragedy - and the Bears didn't want that to happen on their watch.

[Joe Jackson]

They didn't drop him for a ticket, they dropped him for being an f'ing moron. If the guy had any intention of changing, he wouldn't have put himself in that situation. AT THE LEAST, if he wanted to get drunk he would have either had a sober friend drive him or hire a driver. Instead, he drank and then sped around town. He's a moron, plain and simple and it's only a matter of time before his situation becomes a tragedy - and the Bears didn't want that to happen on their watch.

He didn't speed around town drunk.

He just got home from halfway across the country for the first time in how many months that day or the day before. And was on a short break from training camp and other football requirements.
And in the meantime hadn't even seen family or friends since he just got out of the housgow up in Chicago on a bunch of half trumped up charges due to having to jump right into off season activities as soon as he was released.
So this is is first day back and he went over to his brother's house. His brother's house, not some strip joint.
So in these circumstances, how much do you think he and his brother might have to talk about. Have you ever gone home in a case like that?
Do you have any question about how you could sit until the wee hours talking in a case like that?
And would you be surprised if he and his brother had a beer or two? Or drink or two? It'd be more surprising if they didn't. Unless they just don't drink, which I doubt.
So at 3:00am he decides to go home to his step mother's house. reasonable enough thing to do. And to be sitting talking to your family after a long absence half the night is probably one of the most likely things you would expect to happen on someone's first night back home after a long absence.

So he's going home. And if he had a couple drinks he no doubt was not drunk at all. Legally drunk and this .08 BAC is strictly an artifical legal designation used to prosecute and has little to do with being physically disabled. You have two beers in an hour and then one per hour for a couple more hours and you can't pass that test. And many people can drink more than that and be virtually unaffected by it.
Maybe for a guy as big as him it would take a little more beer to be at that level , but it would also probably take a little more to effect him much.
But that's beside the point.

And then he roars through town at 40 mph. Holy ****! It's a wonder people weren't killed. In a 25 mph zone.
25 mph zone? What is a 25 mph zone and why was the swat team patrolling it at 3:30 am?
But that doesn't matter either.

Because it looks to me like he was caught in an almost incredible set of coincidental, ironic and accidental circumstances and is taking a huge, huge fall for it.

But it's all his own fault and he's a moron because he knew he was on zero tolerance and he should have never exposed himself to even the slightest margin of error.
I guess the only thing he could have done was stayed where he was at his brother's house or whatever it was but that's what he should have done.

So now he's paying. But it really doesn't matter. Because he is a moron and he apparently does not understand zero tolerance and even after all his experiences how easy it is to get dragged in on any kind of situation.
So being the way he obviously is, it was just a matter of time before something would happen to end up like this.

He just needs to move on and try to land up where someone won't put him on such a tight chain to begin with and then watch his behavior a little better.

[emperorjones]

I think the Bears should have waited for the test results before they cut him. If they think he is just not a smart guy they could cut him after the negative results. It would have looked like a more reasoned approach. Its not like there is a bunch of stuff going on. I understand them cutting him after saying he was going to be the man of the year - it does show a lack of judgement on his part.

But I still think there is an air of immediacy in sports & society today where we seem to need to beat the legal sytem to the punch.

[Chi Dynasty12]

Why'd Tank always have to be in the wrong place at the wrong time :/ I'll miss him