Fugg you; pay me!

Ayy yo,

Well it couldn't have happened to a dumber guy in my opinion.  In the entire 75 year history of the Downtown Athletic Club there has never been such an embarrassing event such as this - Reggie Bush to return Heisman Trophy.  Queue the melodramatic music and cut to the shot of somebody crying and falling all over the dayum floor, but before we run that footage can somebody tell me - What brought this all on?  

Look everybody in the hood, like where Reggie's from, knows that if you're getting "da hook up" then you take care of those that took care of you.  It's the modern form of bartering.  That's also what seems to foster this "me & my posse" mentality that permeates the professional sports world so much, whereas guys from broken homes and/or very humble beginnings seem to want to carry their entire neighborhood on their back with them as they climb the revolving ladder of success and fame.  It also seems to suggest that they feel, "when I needed support back then, these people around me were my support system."  Good, bad, or indifferent, like it or not, it's all about taking care of those that took care of you on so many levels.

Obviously, however, Reggie Bush never got that message.  Perhaps he was so blinded by the lights, glitz, and glamour of the big time professional football scene that it caused his temporary lapse in judgement.  OJ Simpson was in a similar situation once remember.  Maybe it was the huge Superbowl win Reggie's team, the NO Saints, had last year that made him forget the "little people" in his life.  Just ask that former CEO-guy from BP that got fired about fuggin' with the friggin' little people.  Perhaps it was the tons of xes being thrown at him from those C and D-list celebrities in Hollywood with or without xes tapes in production that hampered his judgement.  He should know the rules, regardless, ya can't trust a big butt and a smile. 

But I digress...

For me it boils down to a simple economics lesson really.  If the entire bill from the guys that hooked you up, Reggie, throughout your college career came to about $300k, then what you do is break them off with about $1.5 million (don't front, y'all know he's got it) and tell those guys that your debt is now considered paid in full.  Shake hands and part as friends.  No hard feelings.  That way it's strickly business.  But noooooooo...  Mr. Former-Heisman winner just had to make it personal and try to stick those two would-be sports agents for their paper and not pay them back.  And their reply?  See the subject line to this post.  He chose not to and now he has to give his trophy back.  What a dumbazz?!

From what I understand, USC is being investigated for their actions towards players in general with 'sweetening' the pot during the years he was there, not just him. I think his family got a lot more than he might have known about/agreed to. They were going to take it anyway...he said fugg it and is gonna give it back. Either way, he was losing it and there was nothing he could do about. Kind of quitting before you get fired.

Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel on HBO aired a piece last month where they interviewed the guy who first accused Bush of taking "monetary gifts" from him in hopes that Reggie would sign with his up and coming sports agency.  According to the interview, if Reggie chose to sign with the guy who gave him and his family the gifts after he turned pro then everything would have been cool.  If not then all Reggie was supposed to do, according to the guy in question, was reimburse the money owed to the full amount and everything would have been cool.  What did that brainiac Mr. Bush do?  He chose "C" - stiff dis ninja for every dime that he shelled out to him and then act like a big shot and say no one is going to believe you gave me money because you have a criminal record.

                                                                           

Psst... Uh Reggie.,. The ones that you DON'T want to play with ARE the ones with a crimminal record.  Trust me.

LOL!!!  BUT.......

what's the REAL net effect now?

............ nothing.

So what if he gives it back - everybody KNOWS he earned it athletically.

Does he have to return any $$?  Will the NFL cut his check?  anybody less interested in watching the ninja run???

Heck - I still have a medal I won in a cello competetion from middle school - I entered late, and my teacher falsified the record to get me in, the medal is under the name 'Alma Hanks'. Do I need to give THAT back?

see - you just laughed and ain't really think no more about it...... same net effect of this ish right here.  Hell - if you want to make a ninja give it back that SHOULD cause he is a smoldering DUMB AZZ ****** - go get OJ's trophy....

oh wait - somebody already did that and the mofo tried to get it back...hence his CURRENT jail term. At least Reggie is still pulling a check!!! 

Nah, the point here is if Reggie had worked with the guy first and not just kick him and the issue to the curb he would have saved himself some embarrassment. 

Hey a trophy is a trophy, but the last thing he wants right now is to be sitting there in one of those post done-deed-gone-horribly-wrong self-induced funks thinking, "Dayum!  I should have just paid the guy off and been done with it...Why didn't I just take care of that dude first?!" 

well, i just have one thing to say it is easy for one to judge but, but one isn't walking in reggie's shoes so whatever his decision is so be it.  we can all say "why" did he do that, I would have done this if that had happened to me.  BS you don't know, it is so much more to this story that we the public don't know about. 

Now see, that right there is some straight up biotch shyte. He shouldn't have had to pay off anyone. They will pull out all the stops to recruit the top athletes. Whether they broke him off behind closed doors or not doesn't change his athleticism. If they got snooked, oh well.

Hello All,

Rickey Smiley had me laughing about all of this... He was like "you know how many hoooo's he done got off that thing..what do he care if he has to give it back lol


But all in all it is wrong.