By shelz.
How many days did you think Rolando McClain would go before muddying up the clean slate Ozzie and Company handed to him? I know it hasn’t been a good 2 weeks yet. I’ll have to check on the actual date he was hired. Anywho, McClain, Baltimore’s newest Raven and NFL resident problem child, has already notched one arrest in his home town since his signing. I don’t really care if Baltimore got him for a 28th round pick and some pocket lint, I get bad vibes from this dude. But of course we have to wait for the whole story.
You can easily hypothesize that in a town as small as Decatur, Alabama there are plenty of folks who harbor resentment against the local superstar. Maybe the cops who are always arresting McClain went to high school with him. Maybe he stuffed one or two into a locker or hit them extra hard in an intramural game back in the day.
He’s young. It wasn’t that long ago. I’ve seen enough Maury Povich episodes to know some people never get over being mistreated as adolescents. His arrest for disorderly conduct could totally be another trumped up charge due to his big time freshness. Or, well, it could be he’s just a miscreant who can’t follow simple rules.
I mean if he can’t tolerate law laid down by Congress, why do you think he would follow the word of John Harbaugh? I like Coach Harbaugh. He seems like a no nonsense kind of guy, but he doesn’t carry a taser and handcuffs to practice. That drops him down a few rungs on the people-I-should-always-listen-to ladder behind the cops. And McClain doesn’t seem to listen to them either. I’m just saying.
Maybe he would have listened to 52, but he’s gone. When Lewis’ departed, he handed the leadership baton to Joe Flacco. I can’t imagine McClain listening to Joe. I like Joe too, but if you rank everyone on that people McClain will listen to list, Joe would probably rate somewhere between M&T parking attendant and the guy who carries the Gatorade. And he doesn’t have a taser either.
The Ravens should ask if McClain’s mom can be on the sidelines at the games. She doesn’t even have to bring soup like Victor Cruz’ mom. Just a switch, a shoe and some southern child rearing seriousness. That might not work either with him wearing pads and a helmet and all. Sigh. Man, I don’t know. Just give moms the damn taser.
This might actually be much ado about nothing. Plaxico Burress, Adam Jones and Michael Vick are all still in the NFL and they have been charged with way worse than yelling bad words at cops and having mafia tint on their pimped-out rides. I don’t even know if any of them can afford a pimped-out rides anymore considering all of their past financial woes. That’s something McClain should ponder I think. Wait. I see here, McClain recently settled out of court with some guy he threatened to kill. Maybe instead of pondering financial ruin, he should ponder prison time. Unless this was another baseless charge. McClain went to high school with the defendant.
Anyway, I guess I don’t know what should happen or what has for that matter. McClain might have a legitimate beef with local law enforcement and some jealous townies. I’ve seen Heat of the Night before. Small town justice isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be. Come to think of it, McClain might not be either. Just a thought.
Ravens!
