ESPN piece - PacMan Jones is an asshole

[ChuckyTheGoat]

The piece on the bouncer getting paralyzed.

The shooter was Pac's buddy, who has since gone underground. And Pac won't talk to the police. He's covering for his buddy. Plus, Pac's lawyer is an asswipe.

No chance Goodall lets this punk play again in this league.

[Uncle B]

gotta figure though, if he gave up his buddy's name, everyone would be calling him a rat.


he is an asshole, i agree... but, he's an asshole either way..

[(sportman)]

Nothing worse than a rat..NOTHING

[robin]

Originally Posted by (sportman)

Nothing worse than a rat..NOTHING

nothing?

[Louis Cypher]

05-11-2007


By Pat Graham, AP Sports Writer

DENVER — Tommy Urbanski fidgets in his electronic wheelchair, trying to find a comfortable position.

No luck. The pain just shifts.

Urbanski, paralyzed from an inch above his belly button on down, was shot at least three times Feb. 19 at a Las Vegas strip club during the NBA All-Star weekend.

The pre-dawn shooting followed a scuffle involving Tennessee Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones and a security guard inside the club. Las Vegas police have recommended felony and misdemeanor charges against Jones for inciting the fight that police say led to the triple shooting. The identity of the shooter remains a mystery, and prosecutors want to hold off on filing charges until more details emerge.

Now, Urbanski spends his time navigating his chair down the hallways of Craig Hospital, a Denver facility that specializes in spinal cord and traumatic brain injuries. The 6-foot-6, 390-pound former professional wrestler attends three to four physical therapy classes a day, learning how to get in and out of his chair, dress himself and put toothpaste on his toothbrush. All are still struggles as he regains strength in his arms.

Some days, the 44-year-old just can't get out of bed - the pain is too intense. Even so, he's grateful.

"There are people worse off than me," Urbanski said.

He tries to remain upbeat for his wife, Kathy, who's almost always nearby, even sleeping by his side on a fold-out couch. And for his father, Don, who came up from Florida to help.

After three weeks in a medically induced coma, lung and rib infections, bowel and bladder complications, pneumonia, multiple operations on his wrists and the removal of his spleen, progress has been slow.

"I make a step forward and then take two steps back," said Urbanski, who has a 9 mm bullet permanently lodged in his spine.

Former Detroit Lions offensive guard Mike Utley understands.

Utley was paralyzed Nov. 17, 1991, in an NFL game and gave a memorable "thumbs up" gesture as he was wheeled off the field. Now he reaches out to spinal-cord patients to give them hope.

"This injury has never changed who I am, who I was or who I want to be," Utley said. "I want out of this wheelchair real bad. But it will never stop me."

Recently, Urbanski's kidneys temporarily shut down, causing him to gain 57 pounds in water weight and his legs to swell to nearly three times their normal size. He's wearing size 17 shoes just so he can squeeze in his feet. He frequently stops in mid-sentence as a jolt of pain overwhelms him.

"A good day for me? Physically, I haven't had one," said Urbanski, who couldn't get out of bed Wednesday due to intense headaches he ranked at 20 on a 1-to-10 scale. "Mentally, looking over and seeing my wife by my side is always a good day. But the pain - it doesn't stop."

It all began in the early morning hours of Feb. 19.

Urbanski, who worked as a real estate broker during the day, was working at the Minxx strip club as a manager to earn extra income to send his wife to law school.

He arrived at the club at 4:45 a.m., entered through the back door, clocked in, grabbed a portable radio and was told there was a problem in the dancers' dressing room.

After breaking up the dispute, another employee asked Urbanski to keep an eye on the front door. As he stepped outside the club, he remembers seeing a muzzle flash out of his left eye and then crumbling to the ground.

"I didn't even feel the pain of the bullets," Urbanski said. "I didn't feel anything."

As Las Vegas police work to fill in the gaps, the Urbanskis are upset over what they consider a lack of progress.

"We're taking it very seriously," said Lt. George Castro, leader of the Las Vegas Police Department's violent crimes unit. "We are still working on and looking at everything that comes in. We've never closed our doors or said enough's enough."

According to a Las Vegas police search warrant, Jones was showering dancers on stage with thousands of dollar bills. Minxx strip club co-owner Robert Susnar has said the shooting happened after Jones threatened to kill a bouncer, whom the club owner said intervened when Jones allegedly attacked a dancer after she grabbed money on the stage.

Jones' attorney, Manny Arora, didn't respond to a phone call or an e-mail.

"Did it (throwing the money) incite them in a violent fashion or in excitement? We don't know," Castro said. "But when you call fire in a building, you're still liable if someone gets hurt. There's a certain amount of responsibility."

Jones, who has been questioned by police in nine other incidents since being drafted two years ago, has been suspended for the 2007 season for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.

He's appealing the suspension and recently took out a full-page ad in a Nashville, Tenn., paper that said, "Learning that I would be suspended from the NFL was one of the worst moments of my life."

Urbanski shakes his head.

"That's the worst moment in his life?" Urbanski asked. "Try being put in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. This changes everything."

His wife is busy trying to get their life in order for when they return to Las Vegas in late July. On this day, she was on the phone, feuding with a worker's compensation company that wouldn't approve a bigger, more wheelchair-friendly bedroom.

"My moods are determined by his pain," said Kathy, who'll leave June 20 to return to her job teaching third-graders at a Las Vegas public school and will fly back on weekends. "Everyone in (the hospital) would rather be in that chair than their loved ones."

"In a heartbeat," said Don Urbanski, who has a hospital-issued apartment a short walk and an elevator ride from his son.

When asked how difficult this has been, watching his son adjust to his traumatic injuries, Don Urbanski put his hands over his face and sobbed.

His son stays focused on the small triumphs - playing the guitar or cooking balsamic chicken and wild rice for his family and the Craig Hospital staff.

It's those glimpses of his former life that uplift, and devastate, Urbanski.

Take an upcoming Harley Davidson fundraiser on June 3, when dealerships in New York and Las Vegas will raise money for Urbanski's care. Though appreciative, he wishes he were riding his motorcycle with them.

"I was always on my bike," he said, staring at his hands. "It's so nice that so many people care."

Bring up his professional wrestling days, and his eyes light up. Known as the "Mad Russian" and the "Polish Prince," he wrestled World Wrestling Federation stars such as Hulk Hogan, Sergeant Slaughter and Junkyard Dog. He fought mostly in smaller venues, but had a couple of WWF television appearances.

"I was usually the bad guy," Urbanski said with a laugh. "It was fun being the bad guy."

Now, that role's being played by others who have yet to be identified in the shooting.

"I didn't know these scumbags," Urbanski said. "The guy could've walked up and put one between my eyes and I would've been done.

"I'm alive. When you come to think of it like that, I got off easy."


AP Sports Writer Teresa M. Walker in Nashville and AP Writer Ken Ritter in Las Vegas contributed to this

[(sportman)]

Nothing.

[luke m.]

The defintion of the "N" word is Michael Vick and PacMan Jones. Everyone knows this is true!

[ChuckyTheGoat]

No way, Unc.

I don't care about being "street" to protect your buddy. Standing in the way of the legal/justice system doing its job is a criminal offense.

Fuck this guy.

[ChuckyTheGoat]

sportman:

This a-hole is committing a crime by obstructing justice. Fuck him.

[robin]

Originally Posted by luke m.

The defintion of the "N" word is Michael Vick and PacMan Jones. Everyone knows this is true!

true so true

[homedog]

[Mr Memory]

Human . . . garbage.

[robin]

vick not allowed to participate in camp

[Louis Cypher]

MAYBE PACMAN CAN GO ON TOUR WITH RON ARTEST...AND NAME IT, "THE CRUEL SOUNDS OF THE TRULY PATHETIC."


Associated Press

Pacman to try hand at music
With wrestling restricted, Titans CB branches out
Wednesday August 15, 2007 2:04PM

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- Suspended Titans cornerback Adam "Pacman" Jones can't play in the NFL this season, so he keeps looking for new ways to stay busy. First there was wrestling, now it's hip-hop.

His National Street League Records, based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that Jones will team with producer Spoaty in a duo called "Posterboyz" with their first single "Let it Shine" being released Aug. 27. The song talks about stones, big money and cars.

An album is due to be released in 2008, according to a news release.

Jones, suspended for the 2007 season in April for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy. He cannot have his case reviewed until after the Titans' 10th game on Nov. 19, and he has two felony coercion charges pending against him in Las Vegas for a Feb. 19 strip club fight and triple-shooting.

A felony obstruction of an officer charge was postponed until this fall in Georgia, and misdemeanor charges of public intoxication and disorderly conduct were revived in July and postponed until January.

Jones also has signed a contract with Total Nonstop Action Wrestling and debuted in a pay-per-view last weekend under a temporary injunction negotiated between the team, TNA and Jones' attorneys to limit his chances of physical injury.

The record label said it plans a tour of high schools and universities in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi this fall.

Jones said he finds tranquility in writing lyrics.

"Looking from the outside in, I have been the example for many to see the poster child if you will; and from that sentiment the 'Posterboyz' group name was born," he said in a statement.

[Uncle B]

Originally Posted by Louis Cypher

His National Street League Records, based in Atlanta, announced Wednesday that Jones will team with producer Spoaty in a duo called "Posterboyz" with their first single "Let it Shine" being released Aug. 27. The song talks about stones, big money and cars.

lol


so, he's basically goona be spouting off the same shit as 99.99% of every 'rapper' out there..


the stupid ass 'bling' shit is almost as annoying as all the whiny ass 'elmo' rock making the rounds right now.

[Louis Cypher]

Club manager sues NFL, 'Pacman'

Friday October 19, 2007 6:57PM

LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A strip club manager paralyzed in a triple shooting is suing the NFL, the Tennessee Titans and suspended football player Adam "Pacman" Jones, claiming they're responsible for his injuries.

Former professional wrestler Tommy Urbanski seeks unspecified damages in the lawsuit filed Friday in Clark County District Court. It also names the owners of Harlem Knights, a Houston strip club that rented the Minxx Gentleman's Club in Las Vegas in February for a party the weekend of the NBA All-Star game.

"The fact that the NFL and the Titans did not punish Adam 'Pacman' Jones until after Tommy was paralyzed is a proximate cause of Tommy's injuries," attorney Matthew Dushoff said before a news conference at a Henderson hotel with Urbanski and his wife, Kathleen.

Jones' attorney, Robert Langford, denied the troubled cornerback had any responsibility for the man's injuries.

"There's no basis in fact for suing the NFL and the Titans," Langford said.

Jones faces two felony charges alleging he incited a melee and threatened to kill people inside the club minutes before the shooting outside. No one has been charged in the shooting.

Jones was suspended for the 2007 season in April for violating the NFL's personal conduct policy.

"From my heart, I feel bad for this guy and his family," Langford told The Associated Press. "But Pacman Jones is not the shooter. No one has said that he is. There's not one bit of evidence to link him to Mr. Urbanski's injury."

Urbanski was shot four times and was left paralyzed from the waist down in the Feb. 19 shooting. He spent several months rehabilitating at a Denver hospital before moving in August to a hotel in Henderson because his house hasn't been outfitted to accommodate a wheelchair.

Urbanski told reporters he holds the NFL responsible for his injuries because he believed they ignored Jones' previous run-ins with police.

"Even, 'Three strikes and you're out,' and this wouldn't have happened to me," Urbanski said at a news conference with his schoolteacher wife.

Jones was arrested six times after being drafted by the Titans with the sixth pick overall in April 2005. After his arrest in Las Vegas, he was suspended by the NFL but he could be reinstated after Nov. 19.

"We've done our homework on this. If Jones had been disciplined earlier, more likely than not, he would not have been invited as NFL player Pacman Jones to the club," Dushoff said.

Langford said that if Jones offered to help Urbanski, "someone would say he had something to do with his injury and we were admitting liability."

"So we're stuck in a situation where we express our sympathy and go to court," Jones' lawyer said.

The NFL and the Titans also said they would fight the lawsuit. Harlem Knights representatives in Houston didn't immediately respond to messages seeking comment.

"We have great sympathy for Tommy and Kathy, but we strongly disagree with any claims against the NFL and the Titans and will respond appropriately to the court," NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.

Employment law attorney Kathy England said Nevada law could limit Urbanski's attempts to link the case to the NFL and the Titans. State law protects employers from injury caused by an employee's intentional conduct if the employee is on his own time, she said.

Dushoff argues Jones was invited to the club as a representative of the NFL.

Police and prosecutors in Las Vegas allege Jones sparked the melee inside the club when he threw cash on stage, an act dubbed "making it rain," and became enraged after two dancers began scuffling over the money.

Jones also faces two other civil lawsuits in the fracas, and is scheduled for a preliminary hearing Oct. 29 in Las Vegas on criminal coercion charges that could bring a maximum of 12 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

Urbanski's lawsuit alleges assault, battery, emotional distress, conspiracy and negligence, and claims Urbanski's injuries were caused by the actions of Jones and unnamed others "within the scope of their employment" with the NFL and the Titans.

It says Harlem Knights invited Jones to the club and gave him VIP treatment "because Jones is a prominent NFL football player."

"The NFL and the Titans had the authority and the duty to discipline Jones for conduct on or off the field that was detrimental to the Titans and/or the NFL," according to the suit.

Two other people shot, Minxx club bouncer Aaron Cudworth and patron Natalie Jones, have sued the Titans' cornerback. Cudworth also is suing people he identified as members of Pacman Jones' entourage, while Natalie Jones also names Harlem Nights in her lawsuit.