A man who was arrested and charged with attempted murder in connection with a shooting last year outside a Las Vegas strip club claims that he is innocent, and that suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Pacman Jones ordered another man to open fire on a crowd of people.Speaking on the phone from the jail where he's being held, suspect Arvin Edwards tells News Channel 5 in Nashville:
"I feel sorry for them and everything, but I want to let them know I'm not the person who done this. I've been shot before. I know how it feels" ...
Edwards said Jones "paid somebody to shoot that club up. Now, if he wants to tell on somebody he needs to tell on himself and tell them what he actually done."
Edwards said Jones knows the shooter well. ... I don't have no reason to lie," he said.
(Via PFT) Obviously, that last part is ridiculous: If he was the shooter, Edwards has a very good reason to lie, namely that he doesn't want to spend the rest of his life in prison. But while Jones has pleaded guilty to a lesser offense and seems to be in the clear on this case from a legal perspective, every single time his name is in the news connected to this case, it's an embarrassment to the NFL. And Commissioner Roger Goodell, who holds Jones' football fate in his hands, doesn't like the NFL being embarrassed.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 2)
1. One would ahve to think the ' Pacman's Posse' who are friends, somehow act and think alike to some degree. So at this state with one man's medical life changed forever, let's assume that all of them are liars, lowlife's and one of them, an overpaid moron who is all of their meal ticket's, will do anything to never step up and be a man, telling the truth.
Cowboys, for the sake of yoru image, pass on this guy...there is something not right, true with this guy... You already have one circus with that clown, T.O., why brign the criminal element to your sidelines and product you are trying to sell ?
Posted at 10:38AM on May 1st 2008 by Lex
2. Why does everyone still harp on Owens. Yes he was disruptive and acted like a prima donna. But he hasn't done any of those things in the last 2 years. I'm a Cowboys fan and was one who initially was against bringing Owens to the team. But I can honestly say that bringing him in was a good decision.
Posted at 10:47AM on May 1st 2008 by mdisptch11
3. I can't wait until Pacman suits up as a Cowboy so that every time he hits the police blotter/headlines the picture won't be this douche in my beloved two toned blue!
On behalf of Titans fans and the city of Nashville, have fun with that, Dallas.
Posted at 1:09PM on May 1st 2008 by August West
4. I can not believe The cowbowys took him!! He is a vick part 2!!!! I am an avid Tampa Bay fan, so This not only helps our team as well as every other team in the leauge. Mr jones. You and the Raiders are one in the same. You Take the lossers and will always stay the lossers.
Posted at 2:29PM on May 1st 2008 by KILLSCOTT
5. Hey Killscott what is the comment about the Raiders for??? The Bucs beat them in the superbowl and now they will be in the same boat as pacman. Lets see what happens December 28th....
Posted at 2:37PM on May 1st 2008 by theboca
6. What do you call the Dallas Cowboys standing in a huddle?.........A crime ring! Go Giants.
Posted at 2:39PM on May 1st 2008 by Bigblue
7. Being a Green Bay Packers fan who bleeds Green and Gold, I really enjoy the fact that "PacMan" is now a Cowboy. Good Luck Dallas.
Posted at 4:35PM on May 1st 2008 by buckybdgr
8. Question: What do you call a huddle in Texas Stadium? Answer: A crime ring
Posted at 5:30PM on May 1st 2008 by elmer Johnson
9. Jerry Jones would crawl over his dead mother to screw his sister if he thought he could get another superbowl ring. He has no moral code so why would he expect it of his players.
Posted at 5:33PM on May 1st 2008 by elmer Johnson
10. big surprise, pac man ordered a guy he supports to do the shooting after they get bounced out on their punk asses.
Posted at 5:34PM on May 1st 2008 by tal bodin
11. I can careless about Adam Jones but since he's not officially with the Cowboys yet I'd have to agree to pass this guy over. As for you G-spot fans, we'll wait and see which G-spot player is gonna be beating (besides Strahan)their wives around when we stomp a mudhole in ya!
GO COWBOYS 5 TIME SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS!!!!!
Posted at 7:25PM on May 1st 2008 by nunya
12. The ones , that looks bad on this one, are the cowboys, what did you trade not to get anything?
Posted at 9:15PM on May 1st 2008 by Frank Farrell
13. punkman is nothing but a BITCH. Just like PRICK(vick)they blame their poor childhood. That is a load of CRAP. Both PRICK and PUNKMAN need to be banned for life and locked up for a long time.
Posted at 9:29PM on May 1st 2008 by SCchristianAFvet
14. killscott ? What you trying to act tough with the name . Well F@CK YOU PUTO! I'LL BITCH SLAP THOSE TAMPA GAY glasses off your face ! And all you'll say is ahhhhhh .RAIDER NATION BITCH!!!!
Posted at 9:37PM on May 1st 2008 by ALBERT SOLTESZ
15. Jones should never ever play in the nfl again.
Posted at 8:27AM on May 2nd 2008 by don
16. Funny...everybody likes to "diss" on the Cowboys...Oh well...Success breeds envy!
Posted at 12:38PM on May 2nd 2008 by Susan
17. Commisioner Goodell needs to make a stand: this thug has no place in the NFL. Jerry Jones has his head up his ass, he needs to be tossed also.
Posted at 1:22PM on May 2nd 2008 by jimbo
18. like it or not the NFL is a critical, contributing institution in modern American culture. as such it, has a duty to our society-at-large. part of that responsibility is exhibit (through the exhibition of ideals) is the display of the character which we as a society expect, as a minimum, from each other in our common cultural interactions.
this is particularly true our nation is an amalgamation of different cultures and by being Americans, we agree to adhere to a common set of values and mores.
good athlete with talent equal to, or better than jones is out there. his character is flawed by choice, not by circumstance. one of the things that the NFL (and thus our society at large) does not need to exhibit on its' "America's Team" (thank you "Jerry Jones), is the criminal behavior and the unrepentent actions of jones. it reinforces that type of behavior in the public arena and it sanctions that kind of behavior by young athletes who by and large emulate the behavior of their tv "heroes".
this is truly a time where the Cmsr., who is also charged with preserving the "integrity of the game", say "NO" to the modern da "thug life behavior" of pacman jones and people like him who exist within our society. He can best do this by not approving the reinstatement of p.jones and by doing so repudiate these kind of actions in the American culture and society.
Posted at 1:40PM on May 2nd 2008 by chaz wilson
19. ONE RIFLE .... ONE BULLET .... I WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE AIM
Posted at 2:07PM on May 2nd 2008 by BAMA
20. @ Susan
If by success you mean having not won a playoff game since Braveheart came out, and Alanis Morisette topped the airwaves then yes, Dallas is a freight train of perennial success!
No, rather people of this generation don't like the Cowboys because the lose a lot AND still get over covered by national press.
Posted at 4:07PM on May 2nd 2008 by August West