While scouring the Net for more information on this real good guy named Adam "PacMan" Jones -- he of the Tennessee Titans, who allegedly
showed up at a Vegas strip club during the NBA All-Star Weekend with his boys, and $81,000 in one dollar bills, so that they could "make it rain," a mean-spirited taunt where they derisively shower strippers with money, make them grovel for it, and then take it away -- I discovered this great sports blog,
Sports On My Mind, that I like a lot.
And while reading that blog, I found another one called,
Ballers, Gamers, and Scoundrels, that also appeals to my cynical sensibilities.
But the best sports blog out there is
DeadSpin.
If you're a sports fan, it's worth a look.
Now back to this PacMan Jones thing for a bit: if you bring $81,000 to a strip club, in a garbage bag no less, and start throwing the money on stage, why would you be surprised if you sparked a feeding frenzy for cash amongst strippers?
Strippers are businesspeople: the only reason they're on the premises is to take money from horny men by jiggling their treasures.
Well, only a dumbass would be surpised.
Hello, Pac-Man.
Beyond that, there's a level of callousness that I just can't fathom: you have a millionaire pro athlete, and some of his friends, and best thing they can do is flash a mountain of $1 bills at exotic dancers and then deny them the cheddar; so not only are they mean, but they're cheap too.
The worse part of this story is that in the melee that ensued a bouncer got shot and is now paralyzed for life, for doing his job.