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[Deberg_1990]

Good grief...completely uncalled for.
 
What exactly does that have to do with whether or not he can catch a football?????
 
 
http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl#ixzz0mLzGo5lR
 
 

Miami Dolphins general manager Jeff Ireland has apologized to Dallas Cowboys WR Dez Bryant for asking him during a predraft visit if his mother was a prostitute, the Dallas Morning News reports citing a Palm Beach Post report. Bryant told Yahoo! Sports Michael Silver, "They asked me if my mom's a prostitute. No, my mom is not a prostitute. I got mad – really mad – but I didn't show it. I got a lot of questions like that: Does she still do drugs? I sat and answered all of them." Ireland issued a statement through the team, according to the Palm Beach Post. Ireland said, "My job is to find out as much information as possible about a player that I'm consider drafting. Sometimes that leads to asking in-depth questions. Having said that, I talked to Dez Bryant and told him I used poor judgment in one of the questions I asked him. I certainly meant no disrespect and apologized to him."

Read more: http://www.kffl.com/hotw/nfl#ixzz0mMPPi3Dq

 

[findthedr]

not very tactful. Has nothing to do with Dez Bryant's abillity to play football, but it is useful to know the background of people who are important in Bryant's life, and may influence his decisions.

[Deberg_1990]

but it is useful to know the background of people who are important in Bryant's life, and may influence his decisions.

Perhaps, but he was clearly baiting him.

[eBovine]

Perhaps, but he was clearly baiting him.

As he should.  You need to find out if the guy can handle stuff like that.  If I'm hiring someone and I'm going to pay them millions of dollars you'd better believe I'm going to know *everything* about that person.  I'm going to grill the living crap out of them.  Especially if they've grown up in the circumstances that he did.

[Phil K]

Yeah - I have no problem with the line of questioning. Now... if they had asked a white guy that it might be a different story.

[HemiEd]

Yeah - I have no problem with the line of questioning. Now... if they had asked a white guy that it might be a different story.

Maybe he was just trying to hook up.

[Deberg_1990]

As he should.  You need to find out if the guy can handle stuff like that.  If I'm hiring someone and I'm going to pay them millions of dollars you'd better believe I'm going to know *everything* about that person.  I'm going to grill the living crap out of them.  Especially if they've grown up in the circumstances that he did.

Sorry, thats crossing the line.  Theres a better way to word a question like that to ellicite a response. 

He was trying to bait to see if he would blow up.
 
Dude obviously knew he was in the wrong because he already apologized for it.

[findthedr]

http://sports.espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/news/story?id=5159981
It had previously been known that Angela Bryant was convicted for selling crack cocaine in 1997 and served 18 months in prison.

Lufkin, Texas, police records acquired by ESPN on Monday show that she also was arrested in April 2009 after she was caught selling crack cocaine to police informants. In August, she was found guilty of two felony counts for possession of a controlled substance and the manufacture and delivery of a controlled substance, and she was sentenced to 10 years' probation.

[Hawk58]

Dez is off to a nice start.

[Deberg_1990]

Dez is off to a nice start.

Not sure what you mean?  What did he do wrong?

[Hawk58]

Meaning one of the knocks on him was the drama that seems to follow him ala T.O.

So he gets insulted by what was asked about his Mom...understandable. So why make it a news story? Why go public with it?

Now this comes out and it boils down to him saying his Mom wasn't a whore, but a drug dealer.

Nice start.

[Phil K]

The woman is acting awfully big for her britches for somebody who is probably gonna do a bit of time down the river very soon. She should just keep her trap shut at this point.

[findthedr]

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/36968713/ns/sports-nfl/
At least two NFL teams indicated their reports on Bryant said they had been told Bryant’s father was a pimp and his mother was a prostitute. It may have been bad information. What we know for certain is Bryant’s mother has been arrested twice for selling crack cocaine. But whether she broke the law in other ways needed to be investigated, given the rumors.

Why would a team have to know if Bryant’s mother were a prostitute?  Well, think of it this way. Michael Vick grew up in a dog fighting  culture. He remained in that culture after he made it in the NFL. What  if Bryant grew up around prostitution and he remained associated with  that culture?