Lloyd Dobler Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 (edited) This is just sad. Link: http://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nfl/ex-nfl-qb-arrested-found-naked-with-meth-weed/ar-BBvViq9?li=BBnb7Kz Edited August 23, 2016 by Lloyd Dobler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forever in debt to mo lewis Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 ive always found the marinovich saga fascinating...I was born in 1980...so when marinvich was on the scene around 88-92 I was really getting heavy into following college and pro football a lot of people wanna blame his father....everyone knows that whole story......but I think when you dig a little deeper by all accounts marinovich loved football and sports....I think it was more of a productive on an environment....the culture around him....I remember reading an esquire article on him where he said he was a freshman and the upper classmen were inviting him to keggers and whatnot after games and his father gave him permission ...its sort of a right of passage....think I even read a quote where his father said "you earned it"....also remember hearing something about his parents getting a divorce and him living with his father during his last two years of high school...and apparently his father was pretty loose with the rules at that point......im sure drinking and drugs started as a release from some of the pressure on him.....but it just spiraled.....if you've ever seen the HBO doc "trophy kids" you have some parents today who are probably just as bad.....I think the scene around marinovich really took hold of him though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darin3 Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 Damn. I've followed his career real closely. Born a few years after him, local guy. All of his arrests have been in and around where I live. MSN, not surprisingly, has it wrong, though... didn't really "star" at Mater Dei HS. He really got things going after he transferred to Capo Valley after his parents' divorce. His dad was loony toons. Treated his son like an "asset", putting him through crazy training/diets, even at like 10-11 years old. Real sad. And honestly, fully expected to read that he was dead when I clicked the link. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted August 23, 2016 Share Posted August 23, 2016 I thought he had died too... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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