Cincinnati Bengals Activate ‘JERK’ Line; Lo Duca Outted on MySpace
***This is great! Appeasing fans that were looking for a way to report rowdy fans around them, the Cincinnati Bengals announced the ‘Jerk’ line. Starting with Saturday’s Pre-Season game with the Redskins fans will be able call a hot-line to report fans that cause unnecessary rowdiness during games. According to the story, a call to 381-JERK will alert security to check out the rowdy fan question via camera. If warrented, security will talk to the perp’ in person.
“We are not going to be the curse police, you have to understand you are coming to an NFL game”, said a representative of Paul Brown Stadium. “We want to make sure we are paying attention to the fans that go over the line”
According to the story, Paul Brown stadium is equipped with 38 video cameras and more than 500 security personnel at each home game.
People have complained that beer has become increasingly responsible for the misbehavior problem in the stands. Complaints of excessive drunkenness, “people that were kind of falling down drunk”, and reports of fighting. The representative reported there were a “few more fights than normal” last season.
The team will be informing season ticket holders of the policy and the punishment for bad behavior. They will also show a video promo for the hot-line during games. For it’s part, the NFL says 6 teams have similar concepts started in Philadelphia a couple of years ago to deal with their rabid fans.
The question I have is this….Why haven’t the Bengals set up a Hot-Line for people to call when on eof their players is being beligerant in public. With all the legal troubles facing Bengal players, it might just be a good idea.
***Another reason why athletes should avoid anyone with a MySpace page. Mets catcher Paul Lo Duca has had better days. In the last week it hass been reported that Lo Duca’s wife has filed for divorce, claiming among other things that Lo Duca had an affair and was a problem gambler. Lo Duca has said that he enjoys going to the track and the Mets are now investigating how deep Lo Duca is in the gambling world. I have talked at nauseum of how bad an idea it is for a pro athlete, especially a baseball player, to have his name involved with any type of gambling.
I digress…It seems the other woman in Lo Duca’s wife has come forward. Feel free to read the whole article in the link above, but in short, the 35 year old Lo Duca was seeing a 19 year old college student from Long Island for the past 4 months. Lo Duca met the teen on “18 and over Night” at a popular night club. 18 and over night? I felt weird going to 18 and over night when I turned 21. Not Lo Duca, apparently, who sent a member of his entourage to hit on the teen.
They continued to see each other and “burned up the phone lines” when Lo Duca was on the road. Most nights they went to Lo Duca’s house, only going out in public once. The teen used her MySpace page to document her relationship with Lo Duca, even going so far as posting pictures of the “couple” out and about. Lo Duca had told the teen that he was divorced, even though he was still married. Now, I don’t know much, but I think I would avoid anyone with their own website if having an affair, especially a MYSpace page owned by a 19 year old.
For his part, Lo Duca isn’t saying much and the 19 year old say he is a “2-timing scumbag”. Go Mets!
