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ImmortalDragon
January-11th-2007, 11:13 AM
http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2007/01/11/male-athletes-and-the-women-who-torment-them/

‘’The C.I.A. has nothing on a woman with a plan,'’ Irving Fryar tells the rookies. ‘’There are women who have a plan to trap you. It’s going to happen to somebody in this room.'’ Marcellus Wiley, a San Diego Chargers veteran, advocates ‘’keeping a stable'’ of women to avoid undue complications. ‘’You ugly?'’ Wiley says to the rookies. ‘’Don’t matter no more. Green, dog, it’s all about the green, and you got green. The root of ‘dating’ is ‘data,’ and that means you gotta find out some information on her.'’ In one of [life-skills coach] Zachary Minor’s staged scenes, a ballplayer recounts to a teammate the fight he just had with his girlfriend. ‘’She wanted me to hit her!'’ he screams. ‘’She wanted me to hit her!'’ Later, the Giants’ lineman Jeff Hatch reflected on the symposium’s teaching about women. ‘’If you came down from Mars and saw all this,'’ he said, ‘’you’d think that women were an evil, evil species.'’

Hall of Fame quarterback Bart Starr was allegedly the target of a $2 million extortion attempt by an 81-year-old woman in Texas who reportedly was threatening to “injure the reputation” of Starr by divulging an affair they’d had in 1960. In 1960!

Very interesting read

TheLongshot
January-11th-2007, 11:28 AM
Whenever someone suddenly comes into money, there are always people out there who are going to try and take advantage of you. For a young athlete, women are probably the biggest weakness. There are certainly enough stories out there to fill a book.

Jason

Coooleeey
January-11th-2007, 11:38 AM
Women and drugs. Most of these athletes are broke one day and millionaires the next, literally.

jrockster21
January-11th-2007, 11:43 AM
Whenever someone suddenly comes into money, there are always people out there who are going to try and take advantage of you. For a young athlete, women are probably the biggest weakness. There are certainly enough stories out there to fill a book.

Try 100 books!! :laugh:

Midnight Judges
January-11th-2007, 12:09 PM
’If you came down from Mars and saw all this,'’ he said, ‘’you’d think that women were an evil, evil species.'’

IMO, the women these guys are dating are totally different from the women I date. They date groupies. Or at least the women throwing themselves at these guys are groupies. There was an article a few months ago about Santana Moss and Clinton Portis going out to a bar. They would go sit in the VIP room and basically audition girls. Several at a time. So yeah, IMO that kind of girl is evil, becaue she is not about falling in love, she's about the money and the status. Not to mention they probably get around. :puke:

Thanos
January-11th-2007, 12:13 PM
IMO, the women these guys are dating are totally different from the women I date. They date groupies. Or at least the women throwing themselves at these guys are groupies. There was an article a few months ago about Santana Moss and Clinton Portis going out to a bar. They would go sit in the VIP room and basically audition girls. Several at a time. So yeah, IMO that kind of girl is evil, becaue she is not about falling in love, she's about the money and the status. Not to mention they probably get around. :puke:

Not true.


I know some well educated, professional women who are known in the DC community going to the All-Star Game and they aren't groupies.

They just have groupie behaviour every now and then.

But honestly this beings early.check out the women athletes get in college.

Midnight Judges
January-11th-2007, 12:18 PM
Not true.


I know some well educated, professional women who are known in the DC community going to the All-Star Game and they aren't groupies.

They just have groupie behaviour every now and then.

But honestly this beings early.check out the women athletes get in college.

So let me get this straight, they aren't groupies, they just act like groupies sometimes. That makes no sense. Did you happen to read the article I was referring to? I'll try and dig it up.

edit: here it be:

http://www.esquire.com/features/articles/2006/060807_mfe_September_06_Game_1.html

endzone_dave
January-11th-2007, 02:37 PM
Not true.


I know some well educated, professional women who are known in the DC community going to the All-Star Game and they aren't groupies.

They just have groupie behaviour every now and then.



I'm going to use this argument on my wife. "I'm not an idiot. I just have idiot behaviour every now and then." :)