Wednesday, June 20, 2007
Sports Pacman, as a verb
Posted by Scott Freeman on Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 5:31 PM
ESPN.com's Tim Keown has a novel idea about Pacman Jones, the metro Atlanta native and Tennessee Titans cornerback ... at least before he was suspended for the upcoming season by the NFL. Jones has been questioned by police 10 times since being drafted in 2005, including April of last year when police identified him from surveillance video diving for cover after shots were fired at a Nashville gas station.
Jones has been arrested five times. But the good news is this: Jones has not been convicted of any crimes since being drafted in 2005.
Just as Jones was saying he'd learned his lessons, etc., etc., he and his friends were allegedly involved in a fight inside a Memorial Drive strip club at 4 a.m. Monday that led to a shooting outside. Says Keown:
It's time for the word "pacman" to become a verb. This latest incident, in which members of Pacman Jones' entourage allegedly shot at another unknown entourage outside an Atlanta-area strip club around 4 a.m. Monday, clinches the deal. "To pacman" needs to become part of the lexicon."To pacman" means to repeatedly do a stupid thing while professing to understand its stupidity. For example: Dude pacmanned himself when he kept going to strip clubs with his gun-toting friends even after it cost him millions of dollars. Pacman Jones said he was going to change his life. That was a few weeks ago, and we have to be fair here -- from the time he said he was going to change his life until the early hours of Monday morning, he wasn't wanted for questioning by the police.
He is now, though, but there's a positive spin here, too. Police say that Pacman wasn't present when the shooting took place, so he's just wanted for questioning and not for prosecution.
Call it progress. It just goes to show you the power of pacmanning. You have to wean yourself off. You can't go cold turkey.
Latest in Fresh Loaf
-
Newt Gingrich's Georgia strategy: Resurrect the dead, trick former Peach State residents into moving back 3
Don't think he won't do it!
-
First Slice 2/15/12: Occupy, still occupying 11
Plus lots of coke and Linsanity
-
5 things today: Fishbone, Write Club
Legendary ska punk group, head to head word battling, and more
- More »
Comments (0)