Michael Irvin accused of rape at Seminole Hard Rock/ESPN 103.3 Show Canceled *Merge*

[CowboyMcCoy]

Doubtful.

She already came up dry on her initial reporting of it and is looking for a handout.

But hoof, she accused him. What happened to guilty until proven innocent? I guess it does depend on the caliber of the player.

 

[Hostile]

But hoof, she accused him. What happened to guilty until proven innocent? I guess it does depend on the caliber of the player.

Or the credibility of the story. Funny how you would forget that.

 

[cajuncocoa]

The irony of the rape story breaking on the same day that this article is published...:


We see the evolution of Michael Irvin
By JASON WHITLOCK
McClatchy Newspapers

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. The best part of Super Bowl week is spending a day hanging out on "radio row."

It's the room in the host city's convention center where radio stations from the across the country gather to hype the Super Bowl by conducting interviews with athletes and celebrities, mostly current and former NFL players.

Kansas City's Sports Radio 810 WHB is here, perched alongside a station from Washington, D.C. and not all that far from where nationally syndicated hosts such as Jim Rome, Stephen A. Smith and Tim Brando do their shows.

Thursday, I circled radio row for five hours, chit-chatting with Merrill Hoge, Warren Sapp, Jamie Dukes, Troy Aikman, Bill Romanowski and a few others. Joe Montana and Jerry Rice also made appearances on radio row. Miss America stood around for a couple of hours wearing her crown. Chad Ochocinco taped his TV show along radio row.

I've been frequenting radio row for 15-plus Super Bowls. Thursday I had an experience I'll never forget.

Michael Irvin, the former Dallas Cowboys receiver, walked over, shook my hand and started up a 40-minute conversation that absolutely blew my mind.

Let me give you a little background. I've long been a critic of Irvin's television work. When he worked for ESPN - at the same time that I did - Irvin's shtick really bothered me. I thought he was too flamboyant, a stereotypical caricature of the irresponsible black athlete. When police busted Irvin with a crack pipe in his car, I began calling Irvin the "Pipemaker," a play off his self-given nickname "The Playmaker."

Irvin was aware of all this, although he never complained to me. ESPN TV and Irvin eventually parted company. During the 2008 NFL season, I caught Irvin doing a radio broadcast of a 2008 NFL game. He was terrific - charismatic, insightful, articulate and passionate. He was the broadcaster I wanted him to be when he was on ESPN. I wrote a few words of praise about Irvin in a column I do for FOXSports.com.

A few months later, Irvin invited me on his Dallas radio show. He couldn't have been any more polite and professional. He told me that he understood my job and that I had a right to express my opinion about his work.

Thursday was the first time I'd seen Irvin since being on his radio show. It was the first time we'd ever had a chance to really talk. Wow.

Michael Irvin sounded like a mix of Harry Edwards, Jim Brown and Billy Graham. The loud-talking, all-style-little-substance trash talker has transformed himself into an extremely thoughtful person, someone with an important message for young professional athletes and the men who supervise them.

"There's so much to be gained from process," Irvin told me and two Miami radio hosts. "Professional athletics doesn't have time for process. Athletes are given wealth instantly. We live in a society that used to prepare meals in a process and put them in the oven to bake and now we put things in a microwave and eat right away. We're into instant gratification. We've lost the process. We've lost patience."

I'm not doing Irvin's message justice. He spoke eloquently and at length. I scribbled notes as fast as I could. I needed a tape recorder. His point was that athletes, particularly athletes from dysfunctional and broken homes, struggle when they're handed instant wealth and fame but haven't been provided years of training on how to handle wealth and fame.

He acknowledged that was his problem when he was a Dallas Cowboy. The allure of sex and drugs swept him up in his youth. And now at age 43, he finally has an understanding of whom he is, what his purpose in life is.

"See, our problem as men is we find our worth in our women," Irvin said. "That's not right. Your worth is in the work you do. Your work is your purpose in this life. When you find your worth in women, you spend all your time trying to please this woman rather than pleasing God."

Irvin found his purpose in his two sons, age 12 and 11. He said he lives in fear of his sons punching his name into Google and reading negative stories from his wild days. He says raising his sons has caused him to become more self-aware and self-reflective.

Irvin said he recently finished reading the book, "The Edison Gene: ADHD and the Gift of the Hunter Child." The book explores attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity disorder and how it caused inventor Thomas Edison's teachers to label him a "problem" child when in fact ADHD, if understood, can be a blessing.

Irvin said the book also explains how an expectant mother's environment and attitude can affect the brain of an unborn child. He said, if a mother is in a "threatening" environment, the child is likely to have a diminished ability to reason and a heightened aggressive attitude.

Again, I can't do the conversation justice. I'm just glad I stopped my frivolous conversation about a football game and engaged Irvin in something important. It warmed my spirit to learn that an NFL bad boy has intellectually evolved so impressively.

As fans and journalists, we get so upset with young athletes for the mistakes they make, we lose sight of the fact they can and will evolve. I'm sure Irvin is not perfect. But he's on the proper journey. And he can help some of the young guys making the same mistakes he made in his youth.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

So she reported it and then pretty much gave up on it the next day?

What a joke.

I agree, false accusations should get a stoning.

So Irvin can be extorted by some money grubbing woman. But D. Anderson can't be extorted by some low-wage earning valet?

Interesting.

 

[AMERICAS_FAN]

Irvin did it; Irvin didn't do it...either way, why is he caught again hanging around with another woman that is not his wife in a htoel? It's not like that part of the story has been contested by Irvin's lawyers (or if it has then there's some hack journalism going on if this is intentionally unreported to over-sensationalize the story).

 

[iceberg]

BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ
DMOSKOVITZ@MIAMIHERALD.COM

http://www.miamiherald.com/sports/football/story/1463608.html

last time they had it on film

right now i put this in idiot category.

you say something stupid, the world listens.

sucks.

 

[Hostile]

So Irvin can be extorted by some money grubbing woman. But D. Anderson can't be extorted by some low-wage earning valet?

Interesting.

Where is the report the valet is asking Deon Anderson for money? I missed that.

Link please.

 

[CowboyMcCoy]

Where is the report the valet is asking Deon Anderson for money? I missed that.

Link please.

It could lead to that.... The ball starts rolling with a criminal allegation, then moves to civil. I think you're missing that too. See the most recent Irvin allegation.

 

[Hostile]

It could lead to that.... The ball starts rolling with a criminal allegation, then moves to civil. I think you're missing that too. See the most recent Irvin allegation.

Oh, so it hasn't happened.

Don't spread false rumors on this site. It is against the rules.

 

[yimyammer]

Holy ****!!

 

[DallasCowboysRule!]

I don't buy it. Even though Irvin has had his problems in the past to possibly merit some concern there's just something not right about this story.

 

[mldardy]

This story sounds so not believable. Sort of like the Roethlisberger case.

 

[DeaconBlues]

Civil suit prior to criminal charges??? Yeah, OK.

 

[Beast_from_East]

Man, I sure hope this is not true.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Or the credibility of the story. Funny how you would forget that.

Yeah I don't think funny is the word I'd use for it.

Where is the report the valet is asking Deon Anderson for money? I missed that.

Link please.

It's right there with his links that the majority of cops are dishonest, dirty, criminals and right along with his information that says the majority of valets are just money grubbing lowlifes who sit around all day trying to figure out how they can scam an average NFL FB out of money.

Oh, so it hasn't happened.

Don't spread false rumors on this site. It is against the rules.

Isn't that pretty much all he's done for a day now with his assumptions?



As for the actual OP...Man I really, really, really hope this isn't at all true cause it would be impossible for me to ever think respectfully of Irvin again. It would sour his entire Cowboys existence.

That said I can only imagine all the great things that Eagles, Commanders, and Giants fans are already coming up with for this, even if it's found out that it's completely untrue.

 

[GOLDENCHILD1688]

just another skeet looking for a payday. not suprised

 

[sjordan6]

I hope that this is not true but something tells me that Irvin is not completely innocent in all this. Sure, we all know how it goes with these sexual assault calims but sometimes its not all smoke.

If Irvin is innocent, why did a "friend" have to pay her off and she signed a no prosecution letter. ( to shut her up and not risk jail for doing wrong).

If its extortion then why is Irvins lawyers even listening to offers of extortion. Big Ben admitted to having sex but wasnt willing to pay a red cent because he felt he was innocent. If Irvin is innocent he would not even be negotiating.

If Irvin is innocent then why is she doing it now?

 

[Muhast]

I hope that this is not true but something tells me that Irvin is not completely innocent in all this. Sure, we all know how it goes with these sexual assault calims but sometimes its not all smoke.

If Irvin is innocent, why did a "friend" have to pay her off and she signed a no prosecution letter. ( to shut her up and not risk jail for doing wrong).

If its extortion then why is Irvins lawyers even listening to offers of extortion. Big Ben admitted to having sex but wasnt willing to pay a red cent because he felt he was innocent. If Irvin is innocent he would not even be negotiating.

If Irvin is innocent then why is she doing it now?

Your last question is simple, it's Super Bowl week and that is a great time for publicity for this. Secondly, for the same reason as the Ben Roethlisberger girl. She wants money.

Just b/c her lawyer said they were negotiating a settlement doesn't make that true. She could have demanded money and he said No. That isn't a negotiation.

It's one of those things, if it's true, the police probably would have found something in the investigation in 07, she probably wouldn't have signed a form giving up on it and probably wouldn't have let 2-3 years pass before making it known. I mean some situations are different, but in a high profile case, it's not like you have to go out of your way to get media attention. All you have to do is contact a local news station, and by the next evening ESPN would be reporting it.

I'm not saying he is innocent, but most likely it's not true if it took this long and they had already investigated and found nothing back then.The timing of this all is what makes it even more obvious to me. "He said the woman came forward last year, after Irvin appeared on a few episodes of the television show Dancing With the Stars." So she sees him on TV and then decides to do something about it, a year later? Why? And then even with all of the time in between that show and this years super bowl, she waits until right before SuperBowl weekend to make it a court case?

 

[davidb257]

More than likely, these are absolutely false allegations. If you get raped and plan to do something about it, go immediately to the hospital, and contact the police when you're there.

There will always be physical evidence. Always.

Sorry lady, find a paycheck elsewhere.

 

[Idgit]

I say we wait for details to surface before deciding whether or not he's a rapist or she's an extortionist. In the meantime, it sure is interesting to see the sides that some of you take based off of very little actual information.