Irvin pulled from Super Bowl coverage

[CouchCoach]

Guys, we're bored senseless and pissed because the Cowboys are not playing.

None of us knows what happened, including Irvin, so let's not take shots at each other when we are all completely in the dark.

However, let me say the gift of a Cowboy or ex Cowboy getting himself in the media's spotlight has arrived early this off season and I do appreciate it. This is better than driving drunk and killing a teammate or getting in bar fights.

 

[CouchCoach]

No one's convicting him of a crime. Your employer can send you home if they believe your conduct was objectionable.

They'll do their own investigation and determine his long term future with the company. For now, he's become a distraction so he's not working the event.

This isn't complicated. It happens in the business world every day. It's just news because of his celebrity status.

They could have sent him home for admitting he was too drunk to remember even meeting someone in the lobby. That, happens frequently at conventions and company meetings.

If they don't can him, they are sending a very clear and loud message to him.

It's like my Mamaw said and she was never wrong, "nothing good happens after midnight if you ain't home".

 

[Calvin2Tony2Emmitt2Julius]

Too Bad for Mike. Them THOTS boy !

 

[CouchCoach]

This happens at any other game, not much of a story. There are over 2,000 reporters from all over the world there to cover this game and every sports talk show participant is there, do we think the NFLN wants this to be the story?

They can't undo whatever happened but they can do damage control and get Irvin out of the line of fire and this story will lose legs. It's not like Brady streaked the lobby. The NFLN just wants this to dissolve and they're doing the right thing for now.

 

[Ghost12]

yes but I highly doubt that is breaking any laws. Maybe he said something nasty..but still...he has every right to have his free speech same as u and me, even if he acts dumb. That shouldn't mean he loses his gig. If thats all he did. Having bad thoughts last I checked ,isnt a crime yet.

There are limits to free speech. You may not threaten someone, harass someone or conspire to engage in illegal activity.

Based on his own statements, it seems likely to me he was drunk. If we accept that, I find it easy to believe he may have propositioned her which some women find offensive (depending on how it is done and who is doing it). But that is just my wild guess based on no evidence.

 

[CouchCoach]

There are limits to free speech. You may not threaten someone, harass someone or conspire to engage in illegal activity.

Based on his own statements, it seems likely to me he was drunk. If we accept that, I find it easy to believe he may have propositioned her which some women find offensive (depending on how it is done and who is doing it). But that is just my wild guess based on no evidence.

Evidence just makes it cloudy and takes the fun out of it.

 

[MaineBoy]

There are limits to free speech. You may not threaten someone, harass someone or conspire to engage in illegal activity.

Based on his own statements, it seems likely to me he was drunk. If we accept that, I find it easy to believe he may have propositioned her which some women find offensive (depending on how it is done and who is doing it). But that is just my wild guess based on no evidence.

I hope things turn out okay but when Mike says he remembers meeting her for like 45 seconds and shaking her hand but when asked said he didn’t recall any of the conversation….I hope it’s because he was so drunk.

 

[MarcusRock]

exactly. The offended are social media crazed mental patience.

This is the funniest post in the thread. Oh internet, you non-stop gift-giver, you!

 

[CouchCoach]

I hope things turn out okay but when Mike says he remembers meeting her for like 45 seconds and shaking her hand but when asked said he didn’t recall any of the conversation….I hope it’s because he was so drunk.

At first, he said he didn't talk to anybody, went straight to his room. Then, they looked the video. If I am guessing, he lied and got caught with the video, which he had to know was present. Then he gets alcohol induced amnesia as his defense.

 

[CouchCoach]

exactly. The offended are social media crazed mental patience.

Beg your pardon, I am mental impatience.

 

[G2]

Beg your pardon, I am mental impatience.

Umm..."We"

 

[CouchCoach]

If the NFLN wanted to get Irvin's attention, they got it. Nothing could be worse for him than the loudest mouth at the SB not being able to draw attention to himself. This has got to be really depressing for him because he lives for just this type of thing.

But I wonder if some of the guys on that show aren't a little relieved that the class clown and super homer is not taking part in the broadcast?

I remember when he was on ESPN and Young yelled at him to take his hand off his arm and let him finish what he was saying. Not long after that, Young didn't stay in the studio but went on location. Irvin had this annoying habit of signaling anyone next to him that he was going to interrupt them and take over by placing his hand on their forearm and then he'd start talking, louder than they were if they tried to keep talking. The final straw was when he made a fool of himself at the draft, standing up and yelling at Kiper. The look on Berman's face said it all, Irvin was done at ESPN Net.

 

[AbeBeta]

Irvin is being held to a ridiculous standard and with 0 facts. He said she said. This is flimsy.

Sure. Zero facts. Because the facts aren't public. Right.

 

[Captain-Crash]

kick the pos off the television. I get tired of hearing some guy who sounds like he's eating a **** biscuit talking.

 

[Shane612]

Isn't Irvin married?

 

[Shane612]

Misconduct...what does that even mean?

He had that look....

 

[cowboys5xsbs]

Michael Irvin still thinks it's the 90's

 

[glimmerman]

Didn’t this happen to him last year also. Or been a few years back. I thought he would lose his job but he survived.

 

[speedkilz88]

There are limits to free speech. You may not threaten someone, harass someone or conspire to engage in illegal activity.

Based on his own statements, it seems likely to me he was drunk. If we accept that, I find it easy to believe he may have propositioned her which some women find offensive (depending on how it is done and who is doing it). But that is just my wild guess based on no evidence.

Inviting someone up to your room in a 45 second conversation doesn't exactly meet the requirement of harassment though.

(and that would be my assumption of what happened in that 45 second conversation)

 

[Shane612]

Crap. I guess I'm lucky my wife hasn't made multiple accusations against me over the years.

She can't when she's gagged and tied up in the basement.