Titans Cornerback Pacman Jones May Be DisciplinedBy Jerry Garner
Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, the Cornerback of the Tennessee Titans NFL team, could face disciplinary action. This action could include fines, suspension or even loss of their NFL draft pick. Pacman Jones has faced a series of legal troubles that tarnish the image of both the Titans and the NFL as a whole, and now NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is poised to clean up that image.
Pacman Jones has had to speak to police in reference to 10 separate incidents since he was drafted by the NFL in April 2005. Of those incidents, five resulted in the professional football player’s arrest. The charges against Pacman Jones, which span three states, involve excessive drinking and disorderly conduct. However, the football player is alleged to have been involved in more serious criminal acts, including a shooting at a Las Vegas topless club.
On February 19th, Pacman Jones was involved in a drunken fight at the Crazy Horse Too strip club in Las Vegas. The disturbance later resulted in two bouncers at the strip club being shot in the parking lot of the topless dance clubs. Pacman Jones originally reported himself as being a witness to the shooting, but later reports showed that the gunman was part of the football player’s entourage that night.
Although Pacman was not the gunman in that incident, Las Vegas Police issued a recommendation to prosecutors on Monday that the NFL player be officially charged with a felony count of Coercion. Police also recommended that Pacman Jones be charged with misdemeanor charges of battery and threat as a result of the strip club altercation.
If prosecutors in Nevada do file charges against Pacman Jones, the Titan’s Cornerback could also face charges in Tennessee from an earlier event in January. At that time Jones was arrested on charges of being drunk and disorderly. The football player made a deal with Tennessee prosecutors that charges would be dropped as long as he could stay out of trouble until July 5th.
The NFL player also faces unrelated charges in the State of Georgia. With so many repeated incidents in the players private life, the off-field activities have actually drawn the light away from the Titan’s turnaround season and have given both the team and the NFL a black eye in the public view. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell seeks to remedy that situation.
It has been reported by the Associated Press that Goodell has called for hearings with Pacman Jones for April 3rd to discuss the football player’s conduct off the field. Goodell is not expected to make an official ruling on the case for at least 10 days after the hearing, but the NFL Commissioner could impose stiff fines, lengthy suspensions or entirely revoke the player’s NFL draft.
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