First off, people, you do not have to defend Irvin, you are not related to him in any way, so you should not feel that you need to defend him to anyone, other teams fans etc.
Those other fans that may come here and talk smack, are very childish. They are still mad because their teams got beat consistently, and still cannot win a championship, Irvin , Emmitt, and Aikman and the rest are gone.
So those small minded fans from other teams that like to use stuff like this to try and belittle our team are idiots.
They are afraid because we are coming back into the dominant team again, and they hope that stuff like this can derail us. But Irvin is not part of the team anymore, he is a Cowboy, but he no longer plays, it would be different if he was a coach.
So if he pays his tickets or not, or smoke MJ or whatever, it is not our concern, it his his and his family to deal with.
He does not tarnish the Cowboys image, he no longer plays. he will still be a Cowboy great in my eyes, and belongs in the HOF.
Now, a lot of you are making comments, about drug users and pipes and such. I am willing to bet money that most of you do not know what you are talking about. Stuff that you here from the so called experts or media people, they do not really know.
Dan Patrick, forgot one thing about alcoholics and drug users, once you are one or were one, people do not want to give you the benefit of the doubt. So they if one came up and told truth you would not believe them, it is hard to believe them, I know I have relatives that I do not believe, but I know it takes time and they have to stay consistent in showing that they have changed.
A pipe is a pipe, MJ, crack, whatever, you can use a pipe for either one. At least that is how the it is done in my hood. Now if you are rich or have a lot of money, then I guess you can have a pipe for each drug.
I have never known a rich or well to do drug user, all the ones I know use the same pipe, for all their drugs or they take a soda can and put holes in it and smoke it that way, or they buy cigars and take some or all of the tobacco out and smoke it that way.
Use can use a regular ol tobacco pipe. You can smoke crack, the poor man's cocaine, or the pure cocaine, can be smoked. You do not have to snort it.
I grew up with a uncle that was turned out by, LSD, Cocaine, Heroine, all the drugs you can think of, Pain killers, he did it all, he sold it all and whenever he was cauchgt in put in prison it was because he was hooked on his own product.
All of my uncles, and cousins have dealt with drugs, alcohol etc. I have smoked MJ, as a teenager, but my mother stayed on me and I never fell pray to the drug monster, or alcohol. I joined the Air Force and left that environment so that also helped me, plus my mother's praying.
I know the ins and outs of the drug and alcohol demon, you can add Pimping, gambling and stealing, all that stuff.
I grew up around it, in it, but not in it. It is what my family does. If it had not been for my mother staying on me, I would have done those things too, because that is what I thought life was about, it was glamourized to me as a kid, and the rap videos continue to glamourize that stuff still this day.