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Michael Irvin (official thread)

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Bucklion;756234; said:
It would be poetic justice if Tiki Barber got his job.
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It might be Bill Parcels.

Parcells set to join ESPN

ESPN has emerged as the most likely landing spot for Bill Parcells, who since retiring from coaching last month is known to have spoken to ESPN and NBC, if not other television outlets.

An official announcement does not appear imminent, but The Dallas Morning News reported yesterday that Parcells already has a deal in place at ESPN, where he worked before joining the Cowboys in 2003.

Entire article: http://www.newsday.com/sports/football/ny-sptuna195100658feb19,0,4239205.story?coll=ny-sports-mezz
 
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ScriptOhio;757441; said:
It might be Bill Parcels.

Parcells set to join ESPN
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I don't like him as a TV analyst. I hope he gets 1 minute of airtime each week for every playoff game he won in the last 10 years. (1)
 
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BB73;757519; said:
I don't like him as a TV analyst. I hope he gets 1 minute of airtime each week for every playoff game he won in the last 10 years. (1)
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Regardless he would be a vast improvement over Michael Irvin. Actually anybody will be an improvement over Irvin. I just couldn't stand watching/listening to him. Every time I saw him I flipped channels.
 
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A former coach is much better than most former players. Coaches usually know a lot more about a lot of different aspects of the game, which definitely is informative. However, guys like Tiki Barber would have been great, because they are former players with actual intelligence.
 
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Is this really true?

I think Boys Will Be Boys, Jeff Pearlman's new book about the Dallas Cowboys in their glory days, and their decline from them, should not be dismissed as the rantings of a jaded sportswriter. Pearlman, obviously, has hit several nerves, and I applaud him for it.
Pearlman writes that Michael Irvin, incensed that tackle Everett McIver, in mid-haircut, would not leave a barber chair at training camp in 1998 so Irvin could get his haircut first, stabbed McIver in the neck. McIver was rushed to the hospital and survived, but not without losing a lot of blood. Irvin's silence on the charge has been deafening. I asked a Cowboy who played on that team if the story was true. "Absolutely,'' the Cowboy said. "I'm surprised it was kept quiet over the years.''

Entire article: MMQB cont. - Peter King - SI.com

Other Cowboy stuff in the article about Pearlman's book:

Pearlman writes in great detail about the White House, the house of ill repute Dallas players owned and managed near Valley Ranch, and he lampoons Deion Sanders, quoting Dallas corner Kevin Smith thusly: "When Deion came in, something changed for the worse. Guys who should have been studying football on a Wednesday at 12 o'clock were focused on other things. Deion was such a freaky athlete that he could shake one leg and be ready to cover anyone. But the guys following his lead weren't nearly as talented.'
In the first defensive team meeting Sanders attended, Pearlman writes, Sanders put his feet up on a table, and when defensive coordinator Dave Campo asked him to break down a play, Sanders said, "Hey, coach. I got that dude right there. Wherever he goes, I go. All that Cover Two stuff you're talking about -- y'all work that out.''

Pearlman writes that Troy Aikman was disgusted by Sanders. And Barry Switzer, too. He also notes that Switzer's liquor tab during the week of the Pittsburgh-Dallas Super Bowl in Arizona was $100,000. That's a heck of an example to set, Barry. What a great hire.
 
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Irvin has been charged with rape in a civil suit. There are no criminal charges at this point.

MiamiHerald

Football legend Michael Irvin accused of rape at Seminole Hard Rock
BY DIANA MOSKOVITZ

A woman who says she was raped by football star Michael Irvin at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino filed a civil lawsuit against him Thursday in Broward Circuit Court.

Although no criminal charges have been filed, the Broward State Attorney's Office has been looking into the case and is expected to reach a conclusion next week, said spokesman Ron Ishoy.

The woman said the attack happened in 2007, in the late hours of July 4 or early July 5. The suit doesn't name the woman, referring to her as Jane Doe.

Irvin's lawyer, Larry Friedman, called the accusations ``totally untrue.''
When asked to describe her contact with Irvin, Friedman said, ``Beyond, perhaps, meeting her, there was nothing.''

In the suit, the woman said Irvin bought her alcohol to get her drunk, then lured her to his hotel room. That's where he and another man tried stuffing money into her clothes, the suit said.

She said Irvin and the other man insisted on sexual favors. She said no.
That's when the unidentified man held her down and covered her mouth, according to the suit, then Irvin raped her, she said. When Irvin was done, the other man forced her to perform oral sex.

Afterward, Irvin's brother, Derrick Irvin, came in and took her to another room and "assisted in covering the sexual assault and rape up,'' according to the civil lawsuit.


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