Pacman Jones going to Winnipeg?

[TheLionKing]

Winnipeg made the correct decision in not pursuing Pacman. Too much distraction for the CFL and the Bombers.

[Toppy Vann]

Winnipeg made the correct decision in not pursuing Pacman. Too much distraction for the CFL and the Bombers.

However, once again Mike Kelly looks like an idiot with all the hype and then a full blown media statement. This guy creates problems he doesn't need.

[LFITQ]

This part bugs me of that article ...

BLUE BOMBERS STATE 'PACMAN' JONES WILL NOT JOIN THE TEAM

THE CANADIAN PRESS
.....
While the Blue Bombers ultimately opted to pass on Jones, CFL teams have often taken on a troubled former NFL star looking to resurrect or continue his career in Canada.

Ricky Williams spent the entire 2006 season with the Toronto Argonauts while serving a suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Former NFL first-round draft pick Lawrence Phillips -- who was sentenced 10 years in jail in 2008 for seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon -- spent time with Montreal and Calgary in 2002 and '03.

Receiver Andre (Bad Moon) Rison spent the '04 season with Toronto despite having been arrested several times for failing to pay child support.

-- With files from Dan Ralph in Toronto

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So let me guess this straight. In the last 7 years this "reporter" can come up with 3 names 2 of which were with Toronto and one having spent time between Montreal and Calgary (and of course has to bring up his current issue and not the one he was facing in 2002 when he came up here), and this "reporter" paints all the CFL teams the same way and calls it "often"?

What a frickin' hack.

[Tighthead]

This part bugs me of that article ...

BLUE BOMBERS STATE 'PACMAN' JONES WILL NOT JOIN THE TEAM

THE CANADIAN PRESS
.....
While the Blue Bombers ultimately opted to pass on Jones, CFL teams have often taken on a troubled former NFL star looking to resurrect or continue his career in Canada.

Ricky Williams spent the entire 2006 season with the Toronto Argonauts while serving a suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Former NFL first-round draft pick Lawrence Phillips -- who was sentenced 10 years in jail in 2008 for seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon -- spent time with Montreal and Calgary in 2002 and '03.

Receiver Andre (Bad Moon) Rison spent the '04 season with Toronto despite having been arrested several times for failing to pay child support.

-- With files from Dan Ralph in Toronto

So let me guess this straight. In the last 7 years this "reporter" can come up with 3 names 2 of which were with Toronto and one having spent time between Montreal and Calgary (and of course has to bring up his current issue and not the one he was facing in 2002 when he came up here), and this "reporter" paints all the CFL teams the same way and calls it "often"?

What a frickin' hack.[/quote]

I think you can make the case for often without naming everyone. Marinovich, Manley, Schlichter, Gastineau, and Soward all come to mind as high profile players who were brought north.

[sj-roc]

This part bugs me of that article ...

BLUE BOMBERS STATE 'PACMAN' JONES WILL NOT JOIN THE TEAM

THE CANADIAN PRESS
.....
While the Blue Bombers ultimately opted to pass on Jones, CFL teams have often taken on a troubled former NFL star looking to resurrect or continue his career in Canada.

Ricky Williams spent the entire 2006 season with the Toronto Argonauts while serving a suspension for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. Former NFL first-round draft pick Lawrence Phillips -- who was sentenced 10 years in jail in 2008 for seven counts of assault with a deadly weapon -- spent time with Montreal and Calgary in 2002 and '03.

Receiver Andre (Bad Moon) Rison spent the '04 season with Toronto despite having been arrested several times for failing to pay child support.

-- With files from Dan Ralph in Toronto

So let me guess this straight. In the last 7 years this "reporter" can come up with 3 names 2 of which were with Toronto and one having spent time between Montreal and Calgary (and of course has to bring up his current issue and not the one he was facing in 2002 when he came up here), and this "reporter" paints all the CFL teams the same way and calls it "often"?

What a frickin' hack.

I think you can make the case for often without naming everyone. Marinovich, Manley, Schlichter, Gastineau, and Soward all come to mind as high profile players who were brought north.

That's still only a total of eight dating back, what... 20 years or so? I'm with LFITQ; "often" makes it sound like there's at least a half dozen of them up here in any given year. Not only that, but the article also conveniently omits that since Williams, CFL teams no longer sign players currently under NFL suspension (not that it was a frequent occurrence in the first place).

[Tighthead]

I thought of 5 in about a minute. How many would it take before people would not take offense?

Add in the recent flirtations with Jones and Rogers, and that is ten. And it still isn't a total.

[WestCoastJoe]

Lloyd ripped into the 25-year-old for his slight on the CFL.

"Pacman is a good player, but at the same time his lack of character makes him ugly," seethed Lloyd.

"I have a true problem with somebody going on YouTube talking about how they're going to score so many touchdowns without even having come up here....There's great players up here, and for somebody to get on YouTube and talk junk like that, I have no respect for a guy like that. I'm happy he's not coming. I think he's an imbecile and I think he's a true, true mess-up."

Keep Pacman in the U.S.