"Yo E," he said to McIver, "don't you dare get out of that chair. Standing nearby was Erik Williams, McIver's fellow lineman. Either I get cut right now, or nobody does." "Tell his pathetic ass to wait his fuckin' turn. "Vinny, get this motherfucker out of the chair," Irvin barked at the barber. Was Everett McIver talking to Irvin? Was he really talking to Irvin? Like. "Seniority! Seniority! Punk, get the fuck out of my chair!" McIver, sitting in the chair, didn't budge. So here Irvin was, moody, agitated and wanting an immediate trim. When Gene Upshaw visited Dallas training camp in May 1993 to explain an unpopular contractual agreement, Irvin greeted the NFL union chief first by screaming obscenities, then by pulling down his pants and flashing his exposed derrière toward Upshaw. In 1991, Irvin allegedly shattered the dental plate and split the lower lip of a referee in a charity basketball game. The man known as "The Playmaker" had made a hobby of breaking rules and laws. A superstar wide receiver known as the heart and soul of the three-time Super Bowl champions, Irvin was equally famous for his crazed antics. "He was a dude in need of a haircut who waited his turn properly." Vinny wrapped a plastic bib around McIver's neck and picked up his buzzers. "Let me say this - Everett did nothing wrong," says Kevin Smith, the veteran cornerback. After defensive back Charlie Williams finished receiving his cut, Everett McIver, an offensive lineman, jumped into the chair. The Cowboys, after all, were known as "America's Team" - the darlings of the NFL, who walked and played with uncommon swagger and arrogance. On this day, a handful of Cowboys lingered, passing the time by talking about the upcoming season and the local bars and the "hoochies" hanging around camp. Vinny would set up a chair, break out the scissors and buzzers and chop away, one refrigerator-sized head after another. It was one of many luxuries afforded Cowboy players - free trims. As was customary, that morning a Dallas-based barber named Vinny had driven the two and a half hours to camp. The date was 29 July 1998 - a seemingly normal afternoon in room 212 of the Cowboys' training camp dormitory at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Years of Hurd's life will depend on how he, and his lawyers, choose to approach the case.Yet nothing - absolutely nothing - matches the Dallas Cowboys of the 1990s. Newton served two years and eight months. Morris, Henry, and Lewis all took plea deals, as did Nate Newton, who was arrested with 175 pounds of marijuana just six weeks after posting bail… after first being arrested with 213 pounds of marijuana in his car. But the likelihood that he'll serve that, if his predecessors are any guide, seems low. Hurd faces a substantial amount of time in prison in 2001, according to the Kennedy Commission, the average drug trafficking sentence was a bit over six years. Jamal Lewis: Four months in prison for brokering a deal to acquire acquire five kilos.Ĭompare that to Johnny Jolly, who received six years in prison (though he could be paroled earlier) for possession of 200 grams of codeine-a lot of codeine, several months worth for a serious addict, which Jolly was, but with no charges on distribution. Travis Henry: Three years in prison, $4 million fine for trafficking 15 pounds of cocaine (six kilos) the fine was waived, as Henry had no money to pay it. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, and served less than three. What's interesting about Pompei's roundup is the distribution of sentences.īam Morris: Convicted twice of drug offenses, the first for four kilos of marijuana and a gram of cocaine (resulting in a fine, community service, and probation), the second for attempting to distribute 100 pounds of marijuana. Unlike other athletes who have drawn headlines for relatively minor drug offenses, Hurd's case is striking in that the charges against him portray him as what cops would consider a major player in the drug world.Īs part of the Trib's package, Dan Pompei rounded up some of those NFL drug offenses, from former Bear Bam Morris to Packer Johnny Jolly. (Even at wholesale prices, that's considerably more than Hurd makes playing for the Bears.) Among the more notable disclosures in the criminal complaint is that not only was Hurd arrested for allegedly attempting to buy four kilos of cocaine, it's said that Hurd disclosed he and a co-conspirator were already distributing that much per week, about $100,000 worth. Today's big news is Sam Hurd's drug bust- he's facing up to 40 years and a $5 million fine.
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