Posted on 06/08/2018 6:51:18 AM PDT by wmileo
Former NFL Pro Bowl tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. was arrested Thursday afternoon for his alleged connection to a burglary at a mobile home park in California.
Authorities responded to a possible burglary call at Park Encinitas Mobile Home Park around 2:40 p.m., The San Diego Union Tribune reported.
A resident who called the police tried to confront the suspect, later identified as Winslow, before he allegedly fled the scene, according to the paper. Authorities were able to track down the vehicle and arrested Winslow.
The former NFL player was charged with first-degree burglary and was held on $50,000 bail, the paper reported. He faces up to six years in prison if convicted.
Winslow's father, Kellen Sr., is a Hall of Fame tight end who played nine seasons with the San Diego Chargers and is considered one of the greatest players to ever play the position.
Kellen Winslow Jr. was drafted by the Cleveland Browns in 2004, and despite a series of injuries that threatened to derail his career, the 34-year-old became one of NFL’s best tight ends during his time in the league.
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PC headline overkill alert! You can’t be arrested for alleged burglary — only for burglary.
So many NFLers blow their money and end up broke. Stupid.
IF the majority of NFL players were actually made to study and pass their classes from high school through university instead of being given a pass on their football field talent, they would be able to make a good living off the field and not have to become criminals.
Me too!!! But Since Paul Brown left the mistake by the lake {right after the Civil War}, the pro football teams in that shathole have lived down to that phrase...
MISTAKE BY THE LAKE.
Big IF.
What is this NFL you speak of?
Is it that they don’t get good financial advice or that they don’t take the advice they are given? Some guys no matter how much they are given they will piss it away.
Nitwit Front for the Liberation of Miscreants.
Not my memory of Bullet Bob. Never heard that story.
He was imprisoned in Texas for pot for many years. Today, he would have probably been given a citation and fine.
If I’m wrong, then please correct me.
The NFL provides people to hold meetings with each team’s new players to give them financial advice on how to manage their new-found wealth to provide for their futures.
At least 50% of the players are only around 100 IQ and come from a thug background, so they just don’t get it.
Others buy car dealerships, pizza franchises and other businesses that will provide income after football.
I don’t know anything other than what I read in a newspaper article many years ago.
I didn’t even know he was busted for pot.
Hayes still holds the record for a leg of the 400 meter relay.
Also a lot of his running was on cinder tracks.
I think they were referring to his father.
His dad most likely pulls in $400K or better annually for pension.
I have a friend that was drafted in the 5th round in 1982. He got a 3 year contract, $30k, $40k, & $50k. The players would make more in playoff game earnings. I was a union pipefitter making more than him, but my job didn’t cone with fame and glory and I didn’t get to play in 3 Super Bowls.
None of them made big bucks by today's standards. Peter Gent, who played wide receiver on the other side of the formation from Bob Hayes, published the fairly autobiographical novel North Dallas Forty (NFL rosters were 40 men at the time) in 1973, but set it in the late 1960s. A recurring theme is that the protagonist, a wide receiver who has slipped to the second string, and his best friend on the team -- the aging quarterback -- hang out with fans whom they disdain, but who provide them marijuana, and other recreational drugs.
Lots of people today can't imagine a world where the franchise quarterback can't afford his own weed while he is still playing.
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