Post by WVUfanPHILLY on Aug 15, 2007 19:44:56 GMT -5
By Dave Weekley
For The Charleston Gazette
CONTROVERSIAL ex-WVU star defensive back Pacman Jones gets a chance to tell his side of the story tonight at 10 on a new edition of HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”
Jones, who has already seen his third season as a cornerback and return specialist with the Tennessee Titans derailed by a season-long suspension by new NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, sat down for a one-on-one interview with Gumbel taped recently in Nashville.
The NFL can review Jones’ status after 10 games, but his appearance on Sunday night’s “Hard Justice” pay-per-view professional wrestling show in Orlando, Fla., certainly didn’t help his cause. TNA wrestling fans howled as Jones tossed phony money into the air at ringside, an obvious allusion to the $81,020 he allegedly used to “make it rain” in a Las Vegas strip club six months ago, which triggered a triple shooting and pending felony coercion charges.
Gumbel caught up with Jones an hour after he bought a new speedboat on a whim. During the interview, Jones denies the vast majority of the charges pending against him, but does add some insight into the infamous “pool cue” incident from his WVU days.
Gumbel: “September of ’02. You’re in a bar fight your freshman year of college, you’re accused of hitting a guy with a pool cue, malicious assault charge. A felony that was reduced to a misdemeanor.”
Jones: “Guilty.”
Gumbel: “Guilty as charged. Is that that hair-trigger temper?”
Jones: “I had, I, I had a quick temper that night.”
Gumbel: “Doesn’t excuse hitting him with a pool cue.”
Jones: “He didn’t get hit with no pool cue.”
© Copyright 1996-2007 The Charleston Gazette
For The Charleston Gazette
CONTROVERSIAL ex-WVU star defensive back Pacman Jones gets a chance to tell his side of the story tonight at 10 on a new edition of HBO’s “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel.”
Jones, who has already seen his third season as a cornerback and return specialist with the Tennessee Titans derailed by a season-long suspension by new NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, sat down for a one-on-one interview with Gumbel taped recently in Nashville.
The NFL can review Jones’ status after 10 games, but his appearance on Sunday night’s “Hard Justice” pay-per-view professional wrestling show in Orlando, Fla., certainly didn’t help his cause. TNA wrestling fans howled as Jones tossed phony money into the air at ringside, an obvious allusion to the $81,020 he allegedly used to “make it rain” in a Las Vegas strip club six months ago, which triggered a triple shooting and pending felony coercion charges.
Gumbel caught up with Jones an hour after he bought a new speedboat on a whim. During the interview, Jones denies the vast majority of the charges pending against him, but does add some insight into the infamous “pool cue” incident from his WVU days.
Gumbel: “September of ’02. You’re in a bar fight your freshman year of college, you’re accused of hitting a guy with a pool cue, malicious assault charge. A felony that was reduced to a misdemeanor.”
Jones: “Guilty.”
Gumbel: “Guilty as charged. Is that that hair-trigger temper?”
Jones: “I had, I, I had a quick temper that night.”
Gumbel: “Doesn’t excuse hitting him with a pool cue.”
Jones: “He didn’t get hit with no pool cue.”
© Copyright 1996-2007 The Charleston Gazette
