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11-28-05, 07:55 AM
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Irvin charged in Texas; says pipe belonged to friend
DALLAS -- Former Dallas Cowboys receiver Michael Irvin said Sunday night that a drug pipe police found in his car belonged to a longtime friend whom he's trying to help recover from an addiction.
Irvin, an ESPN studio analyst and semifinalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, was charged with misdemeanor possession of drug paraphernalia after police searched his vehicle during a traffic stop Friday. Irvin told The Associated Press late Sunday the pipe belonged to a friend of 17 years who left a Houston rehab center and came to Irvin's house in Carrollton for Thanksgiving. Irvin wouldn't reveal his friend's name. ESPN said it has spoken to Irvin, who will still appear on the network Monday as an analyst. "We've talked to Michael, who explained the situation to us the way he did to the AP, and we will continue to talk with Michael," ESPN spokesman Josh Krulewitz said. "But you can expect him to see him on 'Monday Night Countdown' on Monday evening." Irvin said he put the pipe in his car because he didn't want it in his house where his children might find it. He said he planned to drive somewhere the next day, like a grocery trash bin, and throw the pipe away but forgot. "It's a situation that is not as it seemed," said Irvin, whose voice was choked with emotion during the telephone conversation. "I know the type of demons they have to fight and I am going to help them, because it's the only way I can keep them from getting to my family. I have to clean up my friends because they are around my boys. It's upsetting." Irvin was arrested on an outstanding warrant for speeding in Irving after being pulled over Friday afternoon for speeding in Plano. Irvin said he thought he had paid the outstanding ticket. Irvin paid a fine on the speeding ticket and posted bond on the drug paraphernalia possession charge. He was released about an hour after he was pulled over. Irvin was a member of three Super Bowl championship teams with the Cowboys. Asked how this kind of publicity might affect his chances of induction into the Hall of Fame, Irvin said his helping his friends is more important. "The whole thing means such a great deal for me, and hopefully one day it will be there," Irvin said. "But my friends and my family mean a little more. I would rather be helping them, even if it hurts that." In 1996, Irvin pleaded no contest to felony cocaine possession in exchange for four years of deferred probation, a $10,000 fine and dismissal of misdemeanor marijuana possession charges. Irvin said Sunday he's always been transparent and open about his issues in the past, and now wants to help others through those same problems. Irvin, a member of three Super Bowl championship teams with the Cowboys and known as "The Playmaker" during his 12-year career with Dallas, retired in July 2000. He has been paired at ESPN with veteran host Chris Berman, Tom Jackson and Steve Young on the main set of Sunday NFL Countdown since 2003. Irvin holds Cowboys records for catches (750), receiving yards (11,904) and 100-yard games (47), including a team-record seven in a row in 1991. In September of this year, Irvin and former Cowboys teammates Troy Aikman and Emmitt Smith were together added to the Ring of Honor together, a recognition of the players most associated with the Cowboys' last Super Bowl titles.
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11-28-05, 08:17 AM
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once a cowboy.....always a cowboy
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11-28-05, 06:54 PM
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ya, heard that on sports center last night. damn shame.
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11-29-05, 11:52 AM
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Fax sent to Jim Rome:
Dear Jim, If the pipe's not lit, you must acquit. Signed, Johnnie Cochran
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11-29-05, 01:32 PM
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The shame is that ESPN will keep this crackhead on air and have kids thinking that regardless of their wrong-doing, they will stay in the spotlight!
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11-29-05, 01:48 PM
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11-29-05, 04:39 PM
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Guys! It was his friend's pipe .... not his.
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11-30-05, 07:54 AM
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Quote:
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world.
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12-02-05, 01:18 AM
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Too bad to hear, if guilty again you can only get so many chances. I am a very old cowboy fan, my whole family is except my mom, she was always a Rams fan. I go way back to the old days with Tom Landry, Staubach, Too Tall Jones, Dorsett. The Cowboys have always been a very hard party team. The only difference in the good old days in Texas a Cowboy would never be arrested he would be escorted home
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