Football Friday Saturday
August 13th, 2005 at 3:18 pm by Preston Taylor Holmes
It’s almost that time again. The leaves will start changing colors instead of bursting into flames, as they’ve been doing during this hellish inferno of a Knoxville summer. The University of Tennessee football team has returned to campus and has begun their fall drills of blocking, tackling, shoplifting, raping and assault. To top it all off, I turned on the TV last night and there were my beloved pre-season Tennessee Titans taking on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Much like last fall, we’ll be celebrating football season with Football Fridays – pigskin-related stories, predictions and other nonsense to temporarily take our minds off the fact that there are bloodthirsty islamofascists trying to kill us everywhere we turn.
This week, we celebrate the Titans’ pre-season by discussing Titans’ first round draft pick and training camp hold-out Adam “Pac Man” Jones.
This Pac Man is not to be confused with the original Pac Man 
or 2 Pac, who is currently pushin’ up daisies. 
Since you probably don’t know the story if you’re outside of Tennessee, Pac Man is now the longest contract holdout in Titans/Oilers’ franchise history. Not only that, he’s been in several scrapes with the law since he’s been in Nashville.
If you know the history of Floyd Reese, Jeff Fisher and the Titans front office, they’ve always stayed away from players of questionable character. These are the same guys who passed up drafting Randy Moss due to his “character” issues. There must not have been much to indicate that Pac Man was going to be an off-the-field liability or I would think that the front office would have moved on to the next cornerback in the DB-rich draft.
His hold-out antics have now become laughable. Like many highly-touted rookies, Pac Man thinks he is not being treated with “respeck” and has recently lashed out at his teammates for not supporting him.
“My teammates, I don’t think they’ve been as loyal as they should have been in this situation. A lot of other guys around the league are holding out and my teammates are the only ones that are saying negative stuff about me.”
Jones said he is particularly perturbed with veteran linebacker Keith Bulluck.
“It bothers me that I am not on the field,” Jones said. “But then I have to hear Keith Bulluck talking about me, how he doesn’t even know who Pacman is. …
“As far as my teammate and everything, that will never change. But as far as the respect level off the field and me calling him for advice, that will never happen now.”
Seems to me, Pac Man, that Bullock is the only one telling it like it is. He and the rest of the defense are working their ass off while you and your agent play grab-ass with the media. Bullock is right – Pac Man hasn’t done jack squat in the NFL. Until you shut your big yap and get your ass on the field, you aren’t even technically Bullock’s teammate. I’d say it’s time for you to put up or shut up – but, I can see you’re busy – busy filing lawsuits against nightclub owners who have disrespected you and ripped off one of your gold ropes.
With his agent in town to try to finalize his contract, Adam “Pacman” Jones had his lawyer file the suit in Davidson County Circuit Court against club manager Robert Gaddy and his brother Lamar Woodson. Jones is asking for $7.5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
Agent Michael Huyghue said the lawsuit was filed “to serve notice that Adam will not be the target of false accusations.”
Gaddy pressed charges July 13 and had Jones arrested on a charge of misdemeanor assault and a felony count of vandalism.
Getting in scrapes with local thugs, then suing them for absurd amounts of money is not going to endear you to middle-Tennessee football fans, Pac Man. Neither is having your agent send an e-mail to the media before he even bothers to contact Floyd Reese and the Titans.
That was news to general manager Floyd Reese.
Huyghue issued a statement Friday afternoon, saying the sides have not been able to reach agreement.
“I don’t think I’ve ever seen this,” Reese said an hour before the Titans kicked off their opening preseason game against Tampa Bay. “So this one’s kind of new. I’ve only been doing this for 30 years, and this is the first time the press got an e-mail and the GM didn’t.”
Reese said he met for less than two hours with Huyghue on Thursday and wasn’t told that they had reached an impasse. He said the Titans’ offer was slotted at $18 million, between the $19 million for Tampa Bay running back Carnell Williams and $17 million for No. 7 pick Troy Williamson.
I was unfortunate enough to see an interview with Pac Man during last night’s coverage of the Titans/Bucs game and all the John Dwyer interview consisted of was a plea from Pac Man to the fans – letting us know that he’s a team player and he supports his teammates, blah blah blah. Sorry Pac Man, actions speak louder than words, and your actions have let Titans’ fans know that you are little more than a self-absorbed asshole who needs to be sent out to Oakland to play for the Raiders – they thrive on classless clowns.
Next time Pac Man’s agent comes back to town, Floyd, just give him a $5 bill and tell him to take it or leave it. Either that or tell Pac Man to hire Jackie Chiles as his new agent. At least he would be entertaining. 
Related: Big Orange Michael has been on the Pac Man Jones saga for quite a while now. Pay him a visit.
August 13th, 2005 at 4:48 pm
How can you say 2 Pac is dead, when he comes out with a new album every other year, and a movie every four years or so?
August 13th, 2005 at 6:00 pm
You make a compelling argument, Sobek.
I may have to do more research to determine whether or not he is indeed feeding “Da Wurmz”.
August 13th, 2005 at 10:16 pm
Roll Tide! (hehehehehehe)