Recommended Sat Next to David Irving on Flight

[kskboys]

You mean like drinking beer? Self control is part of being a responsible adult. Weed has far more medicinal value than alcohol.

Alcohol is good for cleansing wounds and treating gingivitis. Also a great cooking tool and small amounts help lower the incidence of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some cancers. It can also lengthen your life, improve your libido, helps prevent the common cold, decrease the likelihood of dementia, and reduces the risk of gallstones.

Not sure that's true.

 

[nightrain]

Alcohol is good for cleansing wounds and treating gingivitis. Also a great cooking tool and small amounts help lower the incidence of heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some cancers. It can also lengthen your life, improve your libido, helps prevent the common cold, decrease the likelihood of dementia, and reduces the risk of gallstones.

Not sure that's true.

Don't drink that alcohol for wounds. It won't make you feel good.
88,000 alcohol related deaths in the US last year.
Guess there are right ways and wrong ways to self medicate.

 

[JoeKing]

Guys can play 15 years professionally and still end up messed up. There is a former NHL Player, Joe Murphy former 1st round pick who played 15 years and made millions and ended up homeless in Northern Ontario. He suffers from, depression...repeated blows to the head are not good for depression, sometimes that can worsen depression, the league is denying him the one substance he feels works best for him. And what does that useless player's union do to help people like him, nothing, they throw their arms up in the air? This policy needs to change. Research shows cannabis helps with depression and brain injuries...hey what do researchers know, they are not lawyers who are now the most overpaid man in sports.

The Canadian player has a pension. Sounds like his only problem is a drug habit.

 

[JoeKing]

Based on what? Just because he doesn't like football?

No, if that were the case I could say the same about my wife too. Surely you can think of another reason I would be casting doubt on him.

 

[Hadenough]

Great story! But there are many of us who have to work regardless of how much we like it or don't like it. It pays the bills and mortgage. There are people that hate their job but still deal with it. He is too young to realize there is absolutely nothing he will ever do the rest of his life to make the kind of money he is making. Suck it up and bank everything you can for the next 10 years and then retire worry free for the rest of your life.

 

[dogunwo]

No, if that were the case I could say the same about my wife too. Surely you can think of another reason I would be casting doubt on him.

No. You don't know him at all. So I don't see how you can make any judgment on his intelligence.

 

[JoeKing]

No. You don't know him at all. So I don't see how you can make any judgment on his intelligence.

He picked weed over a multi-million dollar career.

 

[TwistedL0g1k]

Great story! Thanks.

I hope he continues to be happy years down the road, and doesn't regret the money he left on the table. Even if he doesn't like football, he could have stayed clean for a few years and banked a fortune. Many folks have jobs they don't like. Few have the earning potential he walked away from. Most would work a job they didn't like for a few years in return for a lifetime of financial security. Still... his life, his decision.

 

[Nightman]

Did you happen to discuss his favorite classic rock band? I have money riding on the Doobie Brothers.

maybe Burning Trees

 

[cern]

maybe Burning Trees

Musical youth...................pass that dutchie

 

[mooseq]

Chad Ochocino said NFL sent him representative for a drug test in Spain one time when he was on vacation.

Maybe the rules changed

 

[dogunwo]

He picked weed over a multi-million dollar career.

Not everyone values what you value. Doesn't mean he is of low intelligence.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

It's only a matter of time... this guy is going to burn threw every penny he has and he really will be homeless and carless and begging on the streets.

You paint such a rosy future for him.
It will be worse for him.

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

That's rich.

Life after football.

Go figure.

Who says "that's rich" anymore, huh?
Quit it and eat your soup.

 

[CowboyStar88]

I highly doubt DI is going to be working some small job. If he’s into the CBD business and other parts of the Marijuana business out here DI will be just fine. Sounds like with him also doing the documentary he is going to raise more awareness to the cause for Marijuana use in the NFL. Thanks for the sharing this BTW

 

[Xelda]

today from LAX to DFW. Flew out to watch the Spence vs Mikey fight. David is a social butterfly. Literally talked to him the entire flight. I wanted to pick his brain. Here are some of the things we discussed:

*David Irving says he sold drugs as a teen and it continued while in college and made a lot of money.

* he mentioned multiple times that he’s going to the “after parties” after the fight. but didn’t seem to care about the fight itself.

* he’d spend the offseasons in Mexico (Monterrey)because apparently the NFL cannot drug test you if you’re out of the country.

*He hates football and never liked playing it but his parents would make him because he was great at it. His dad was a marine and coached him hard. But David said multiple times he hated playing football.

* he’s been addicted to Xanax multiple times and weed helped him get off.

* he said he’s been depressed for 2 years and since quitting football he’s the happiest he’s ever been.

* he owns 5 cars but doesn’t own a house. He said he has to sell off some of his cars.

* He said Jerry Jones always showed him love and really tried to help him out. Didn’t like Garrett and said he’s like a Boy Scout leader.

* as soon as we landed he called his ride and asked him if he had “his blunts”. I am not joking.

In closing he’s such a bright guy. Very intellectual, intelligent. I told him the 2016 game@ GB was one of the greatest games I’ve ever seen a DL play. He appreciated it reiterated that he didn’t really like playing it at all. I ended telling him that I do respect you for walking away from something if you don’t love it, do what makes you happy.

Just thought I’d share.

Thank you for sharing this. It's really none of my business, but I'm nosy when it comes to my Cowboys. Ex Cowboys too, depending upon the terms in which they left. I'd honestly felt bad for Irving, thinking that he wasn't thinking this career decision through. After what you said, it's actually the best move for him. I have peace with it now. I really do appreciate you for it.

 

[SSoup]

The after party invites will dry up in a few years, hope he’s smart enough to get a decent paying conventional job. How do the coaches not know of his lack of enthusiasm before the team resigned him?

I think it's just not the deal-breaker some fans think it is. And I think it's pretty common.

I'm pretty sure Roy Williams, the safety we drafted with a top 10 pick, was one of those guys too, if I'm remembering right (it's possible I'm confusing him with another player this many years later). I'm pretty sure there was a profile on him around when he was drafted where he admitted he doesn't really even like football that much and that's why he doesn't care to watch the sport, how he had a huge DVD collection because he just wants to watch movies instead.

Obviously teams need their franchise QB to be obsessed with the game, ready to eat and breathe and sleep football 24/7, because that level of preparation is expected from quarterbacks.

But when it comes to other positions, as long as the guy is enough of a pro to keep himself in shape and receive instruction from coaches, the team tends to figure they can use him even if football isn't his everything.

 

[Doomsay]

I think it's just not the deal-breaker some fans think it is. And I think it's pretty common.

I'm pretty sure Roy Williams, the safety we drafted with a top 10 pick, was one of those guys too, if I'm remembering right (it's possible I'm confusing him with another player this many years later). I'm pretty sure there was a profile on him around when he was drafted where he admitted he doesn't really even like football that much and that's why he doesn't care to watch the sport, how he had a huge DVD collection because he just wants to watch movies instead.

Obviously teams need their franchise QB to be obsessed with the game, ready to eat and breathe and sleep football 24/7, because that level of preparation is expected from quarterbacks.

But when it comes to other positions, as long as the guy is enough of a pro to keep himself in shape and receive instruction from coaches, the team tends to figure they can use him even if football isn't his everything.

I think that he's obviously delusional about his prospects outside of football. Roy at least stayed into it long enough to get paid.

 

[Doomsay]

The team did know.

There was much debate here when rumor spread Dallas would only use a second round RFA tender on David Irving instead of a first rounder, because some team would be willing to part with a 2 in order to add a player with Irving's talent. The Cowboys did use the second round tender and then rumor spread the team was perfectly fine getting a pick if Dino signed an offer sheet elsewhere. Then another rumor that Irving's camp wanted to play out the season on the RFA tag and hit free agency in 2019 with dollar signs in their eyes.

Irving's apparent lack of love for the game has been hinted at for years.

Dallas didn't sign him to an extension as a RFA, which it has done in the past with other talented players, and only used a second round tender despite his ability being more than worthy of a first round tender.

And then no other club decided to bite what many speculated was a poison apple and Dino returned to the Cowboys on his one year RFA tender.

Thanks for the background, but from all the psychological evidence, it appears that they shouldn't have signed him to his recent contract.

 

[rags747]

Very very cool, not many are able to find true happiness in life. Seems like he has found it and Bravo for him. Me personally, I would have grinded heavily until my 30th Birthday no matter how much I hated it, and to be quite frank it would have been all for the Millions of $ that would set me and my family up to never work another day in my life. That’s ok, he will be 30yrs old in a few and he will only have another 30 or so years left to set himself up, good career move.