Football Cris Carter in hot water for telling rookies to "have a fall guy" - Page 6

tk13 · 06:16 PM

This is from last year, but apparently now just coming to light. It was on the NFL's website.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...ve-a-fall-guy/

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Cris Carter urged NFL rookies to have a “fall guy”
Posted by Michael David Smith on August 23, 2015, 4:39 PM EDT

A recent ESPN feature on former 49ers linebacker Chris Borland described Borland as “appalled” by what he heard at the 2014 Rookie Symposium, when a former NFL player told the rookies that they should have a “fall guy” in their crew who would take the blame if they faced legal trouble. What ESPN failed to mention is that the former player who gave that appalling advice was an ESPN employee, Cris Carter.

Although the ESPN feature says that Borland “declined to name” the player, the writers easily could have identified Carter as the source of the comments, because the video of Carter’s presentation at the Rookie Symposium is available at NFL.com.

The presentation went basically how Borland described it in the ESPN feature: Carter told rookies that they should have one friend who will be willing to take the blame if they ever get into trouble. Warren Sapp, onstage along with Carter, agreed.

“If you all got a crew, you got to have a fall guy in the crew,” Carter said. “If you all have a crew, one of those fools got to know, he’s the one going to jail. We’ll get him out.”

Sapp then repeated, “We’ll get him out.”

Those comments didn’t sit well with Borland, and they likely won’t sit well with most people hearing them now. But the NFL apparently didn’t have a problem with what Carter said: His presentation was posted on the league’s own website, and Carter was invited back to speak at this year’s Rookie Symposium.

UPDATE 5:23 p.m. ET: Shortly after we posted this item, NFL.com removed the video.

Someone uploaded a clip of the video with their cell phone. Teddy Bridgewater gets used as the example. I can't believe the NFL had this on their website.

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:15 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

You guys DO know that a white dude can have a fall guy too, right?

CAN.

But don't need one.

White people are capable of talking to the police without attacking or running away.

ThaVirus · 08-24-2015, 10:17 AM

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

We constantly hear about how the NFL influences children as well as all the lower levels of the sport.
I think some are forgetting that the NFL just sent this message to those same children looking up to the NFL players.

Yup.

"Be like CC and Bridgewater!! Do dope, **** hoes, shoot ****as, and when the cops show up...give em Li'l Deep!! He's down!! Just bail him out!"

Great life lessons for the youngsters out there...

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

You need to learn about keepin it real

Keepin' WHAT real??

Keepin' your brain real stupid??

Words have meanings...what does "keepin' it real" even mean??

Keepin' your life real ****ed-up??

**gblowfish** · 08-24-2015, 10:20 AM

A "fall guy"...

You mean, like, when you're driving around really stoned looking for Sonic in Riverside???

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by gblowfish

A "fall guy"...

You mean, like, when you're driving around really stoned looking for Sonic in Riverside???

LOL

Cue Lee Majors in a #82 Bowe jersey...

Chief Roundup · 08-24-2015, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

me?

Yeah you, but yes there are lots of others too. Those responses are all in response to some of the ridiculous racial things that have been going on of late. You know that thing called Satire.

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Originally Posted by loochy

It's called trolling and people like you just gobble it up.

Never understood why anyone would want to troll. It doesn't seem like something that a very good type of person would do. I think that is why it was given that name. It is not a desirable behavior.

Chief Roundup · 08-24-2015, 10:24 AM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Yup.

"Be like CC and Bridgewater!! Do dope, **** hoes, shoot ****as, and when the cops show up...give em Li'l Deep!! He's down!! Just bail him out!"

Great life lessons for the youngsters out there...

And then those same people wonder, how people end up that way, how did society end up this way, where did the kids get these ideas from. It is pretty damn obvious.

**loochy** · 08-24-2015, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Never understood why anyone would want to troll. It doesn't seem like something that a very good type of person would do. It is not a desirable behavior.

I know, right? I'm probably the most terriblest person on CP. At least I don't hate black people though. All of my best friends are black.

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

I think that is why it was given that name.

I actually believe it comes from the fishing activity in which one tows bait behind a boat and covers a broad area until a fish is hooked.

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Bufkin

Oh wow, an over privileged white guy who sucks a lot of cock.

Over-privileged why??

Because he has a job??

Because he knows how to speak to people??

Because he didn't make a list of bad decisions that led to unemployment and incarceration??

I don't get how "being white" = being over privileged.

I mean, if I were BLACK, I could :
Get a check each month
Go to college for free
get my meals paid for
Have free health insurance

Because I'm white, I not only have to pay for those things for myself...but for a bunch of other people too.

That "white privilege" bullshit is some kind of rhetoric that a sociology professor made up...it doesn't exist.

If anyone is privileged, it's the black folk in America.

**loochy** · 08-24-2015, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

I don't get how "being white" = being over privileged.

check the DC forum. there is a whole thread about it

Chief Roundup · 08-24-2015, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by loochy

I know, right? I'm probably the most terriblest person on CP. At least I don't hate black people though. All of my best friends are black.

Why is it that you think I do not like black people? I don't give a crap what color you or your friends may or may not be, it makes me no difference.

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

And then those same people wonder, how people end up that way, how did society end up this way, where did the kids get these ideas from. It is pretty damn obvious.

Exactly. They saw it on TV.

rabblerouser · 08-24-2015, 10:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Chief Roundup

Why is it that you think I do not like black people? I don't give a crap what color you or your friends may or may not be, it makes me no difference.

Loochy is just the type of white-guilt liberal that he probably surrounds himself with black people just to prove to himself how "not racist" he is

**loochy** · 08-24-2015, 10:30 AM

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Originally Posted by rabblerouser

Loochy is just the type of white-guilt liberal that he probably surrounds himself with black people just to prove to himself how "not racist" he is

or MAYBE I'm a savvy businessman who has found a group of individuals ripe for exploitation

or MAYBE I just make stuff up to get people going

you decide

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